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Some Updates from the Northern Winter

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Katharine Whitcomb
Mar 01, 2025
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We’ve gotten a lot of snow this winter in Vermont and Quebec, record amounts.

Lake Champlain is frozen solid, its surface deep with drifted snow. When we snowshoed on it, sinking into feet of powdery snow, the open sky and white plain of the lake stretched around us. It was quiet out there, except for a family who were ice-fishing. The winter world crea…

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