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NH - Vermont Semester
Life on the Trail
Life on the Trail, February and March

With skis on our feet, we leave behind the long lists of expedition planns and greet the winter trail. Three hundred miles of unbroken snow stretch out before us. Who knows where we will sleep? Fir boughs will make a soft bed and dry wood a warm tent.

We study the tracks of our new family; fisher, muskrat, squirrel and deer.

We carve telemark turns down steep hills on winding trails.

You make three good turns and one terrific crash!

We ski hard and eat chocolate.

We study the sky and learn to listen to the language of the earth. Tomorrow it will snow.

We read the ice and learn how to find the door of a beaver’s lodge.

Chris Knapp, lead teacher, adjusting the stovepipe.	John, our navigator
A short rest on the trail

“This life I am living is so full of fun and magic. I have never felt so alive, so in touch or so grateful. I wake up smiling and feel something solid beginning to form within myself.” –Hannah Morgan, Semester student, Hartland, VT