This gripping article recounts two of the most daring dog-sled ascents ever attempted on Mount Washington, beginning with Arthur T. Walden and the legendary lead dog Chinook’s perilous climb in 1926, and culminating in Florence Murray Clark’s extraordinary solo ascent in 1932. Set against hurricane-force winds, sheer ice slopes, and life-or-death decisions, the story captures both the physical danger of winter travel on New England’s highest peak and the remarkable resolve of those who dared to challenge it—especially Clark, who became the first woman to drive a dog team to the summit without assistance. Together, these intertwined accounts illuminate a little-known chapter of White Mountains history where endurance, courage, and human–animal partnership were tested at the very edge of possibility.

On January 14, 1942, just weeks after Pearl Harbor, a U.S. Army bomber vanished into the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This is the story of the flight, the crash on Mount Waternomee, and the community that climbed into the dark to bring seven men home—five surviving, two passed on—marking the moment when a distant war became painfully close.

Tucked along a bend of the Pemigewasset River, Woodstock, New Hampshire is a town that has been rewritten more than once—first as Fairfield, then as Peeling, and finally as the mountain village we know today. Its story is one of reinvention shaped by stubborn granite, fast water, and the long reach of the logging era that once swept through the White Mountains. From the early settlers who tried to coax a living from thin hillside soils, to the rivermen guiding vast log drives down to Lowell, to the boardinghouses and grand hotels that welcomed summer travelers off the Boston & Maine trains, Woodstock grew in fits and starts, pulling itself down from the hilltop and toward the river that ultimately defined it. In the shadow of Mount Cilley, where cellar holes of old Peeling sleep beneath second-growth trees, you can still trace the outlines of a town that has lived many lives—and continues to negotiate its place between wilderness and the world beyond it.