No Experience Required! Fun for the absolute beginner to the seasoned artist.
Spend an afternoon of creativity with guided instruction, a break for savory snacks, and ending with a four-course, family-style dinner at 6 p.m.
Instructor Melanie Levitt from Jackson Art will guide you step by step. Dinner, snacks and all painting supplies included for $95 (AMC members $90). Wine and local craft beer available for purchase. We will provide you with a smock, but please wear clothes you wouldn’t mind getting paint on.
Call (603) 278-4453 to reserve your spot. Reservations required.
In this one-day outdoor painting workshop, students will enjoy the process of setting up an easel outdoors and painting the beautiful White Mountain landscape “En Plein Air.”
Through demonstration and individual attention in oils, students will learn how to distill the important information from their observation and translate it onto the canvas. Melanie Levitt from Jackson Art will address the importance of sketching, how to create depth in a painting composition, color mixing formulas, light effects, and other tips for painting outdoors. All this will be taught in an understandable step-by-step process which will lead students to improve their ability to see the landscape and create a finished painting in a short time. This class is suitable for the total beginner or the intermediate student who wants to learn how to paint outdoors. Students will complete at least one painting a day. No need to invest in expensive equipment. We will provide all the supplies you need to paint for the day (ie: use of plein air easel, paints, brushes, canvas, palette, turpentine, etc. (If weather is not suitable for outdoor painting, we will paint from photographs in the Lodge.)
This class is limited to 8 students to allow for lots of individual attention. All students will need to bring a small sketchbook. Call (603) 278-4453 to reserve your spot. Reservations required.
$180 for full day workshop and lunch.
Guest speaker Mary Ann McGarry, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Plymouth State University, will present “The Bicknell’s Thrush and Sustainable Development.”
A rare native songbird — the Bicknell’s Thrush — has failed to be listed as a threatened species; however, data collected will inform ongoing conservation efforts.
This bird serves as a catalyst for considering how NH is linked to sustainable development in our home state as well as on the island of Hispaniola where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are co-located. The Bicknell’s Thrush breeds in the high peaks of NH and winters in the forests on Hispaniola. Saving this species means protecting its habitat in two regions and solving complex issues related to race, poverty, deforestation and natural resource management. Although the challenges are great, learn what is being done to raise awareness at both ends of the birds’ migratory route.
Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings
Celebrate National Public Lands Day and a successful season of trail maintenance on Crawford Path!
Enjoy live music from Dagobah System, and from 2 – 4pm delicious eats by Cheese Louise Food Truck as well as other food options that will be available!
Our own Crawford Path IPA made for us by Moat Mountain Brewery will be available while it lasts!
Come see The New Hotel at Great Glen; they will be giving tours!
Try your chance at our “Pick-a-Prize” Raffle!
Enter to win ski tickets from Cannon Mountain, Wildcat Mountain, Zip line tours from Alpine Adventures,
High end ski demos from Exit 28 Ski and Snowboard, and more!
Raffle prizes total over $1000!
Meet with trail clubs and crews at the Trail Expo – maybe you’ve been wanting to join a trail club or crew, so here’s your chance to find out what trail maintenance is all about!
Donations of $25 or more will get a custom WMTC t-shirt and your donation will help us continue fund future trail work projects like Crawford Path 2019!
We will be celebrating Rain or Shine so come join us!
Everyone is Welcome!
Guest speaker Christine Woodside will present “How Not to End Up in the Accidents Report of Appalachia Journal.”
Chris Woodside is a writer and editor who writes about the history of ordinary Americans and their clashes with nature. Chris has edited Appalachia since 2005. The journal is a mountaineering publication with a literary bent, published since 1876 by the Appalachian Mountain Club.
Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings
Guest speaker Allen Crabtree will share the “History of Mountain Top Inns and Hotels.”
For nearly as long as there have been tourists enjoying the White Mountains there have been hotels for them to stay. These have included Crawford’s Old Moosehead Tavern in 1817, the Notch House in 1828, the first Crawford House in 1850, the first of several Mount Washington Summit Hotels in 1874, and many others. Other peaks also sported their summit hotels, including Mount Kearsarge North in North Conway, Pleasant Mountain in Denmark, Me., Mount Chocorua in Albany, and others. This illustrated talk will outline the rise, glory years, and decline of nearly all these summit hotels and grand resorts that were so popular with White Mountain tourists in the late 1800s to early 1900s.
Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings
“Lost? Injured? Trends and Personalities in White Mountain Search & Rescue,” featuring guest speaker Sandy Stott.
Using incidents selected from his book, Critical Hours, and his Accidents column in Appalachia Journal, and blending in the audience’s experiences, he’ll look at and ask questions about the current search and rescue scene in the Whites and ask questions about its (and their) future.
Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings
This event features a colonial encampment of reenactors representing the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, and Mountain Man periods from 1750 through 1840. This gathering will take place in the fields at the base of the Mt. Washington Auto Road in beautiful Pinkham Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Participants will demonstrate the use of appropriate tools, clothing, and firearms from their respective time periods. This event is free and open to the general public with the hope that the education they receive here may spur them on to consider becoming a future participant.
Open to the public: Friday and Saturday from 10am – 4pm, Sunday from 10am – 1pm.
Please, no dogs.
The Auto Road remains fully open during this event.
Activities will include:
- 1800 firearms/cannon display and competition
- Woods walk competition
- Tomahawk and knife throwing
- Cooking competition
- Weaving, basketmaking, quill work, candle dipping
- Gunsmithing, coppersmithing, blacksmithing
- Archery, wood carving, century games and more!
In early November 2018, Lisa Ballard accompanied three firefighters, an emergency room technician and an electrical engineer from the Upper Connecticut River Valley to central Mexico. Part of the trip included the chance to trek to base camp on Pico de Orizaba (18,491 feet), the highest mountain in Mexico and the third highest in North America.
However, the real motivation was humanitarian. For more of the story, see the Summer/Fall 2018 issue of Appalachia, which explores what motivates climbers to provide aid to others, then let Lisa take you to Pico de Orizaba through her stunning photographs and commentary.
Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings
Wednesday Night with a Ranger programs are free and open to the public.
August 29: Monarchs with USFS Volunteer Paul Motts in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the White Mountain National Forest.
Call to find out more or to be added to the monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings.
