I believe in the magic of these mountains.   It’s what drew me here; it’s what keeps me here.   It’s where I connect with my late father...

Okay, so I say "we" but as everyone knows, Atticus doesn't talk.  As I often say during radio interviews when the hosts ask...

We woke up to a temperatures in the thirties this morning and earlier this week snow fell on the 4,000-footers throughout the White Mount...

I know, this is a hiking column and I’m sure I drive some other folks who write about hiking crazy by how I deviate from a simple, straig...

Donna Agripino: I must ask, do you every worry about Atticus falling or slipping off a cliff? Especially in winter? (I am not trying t...

Tom & Atticus: a shared joy. Black Cap is our fall back mountain. It’s the place we go when we don’t have time for a longer hike b...

Laura and Barb of White Birch Books with Atticus and the cake sent to them by HarperCollins for selling 1,000 copies of Following Atticus...

The economy continues to disappoint; our country is still at war with outsiders while Democrats and Republicans go to war with each other...

Atticus has not been well lately. It’s not been anything earth-shattering and I don’t think anyone else would even notice it. Heck, on...

We’re kicking off the paperback book tour of Following Atticus in a way that’s near and dear to our hearts. When we were given an oppo...

Tom & Atticus on top of Mount Eisenhower. This morning we hiked Pierce and Eisenhower, two of the 4,000-footers in the Southern Pre...

It's Father's Day, and though he's been gone for a few years now, Jack Ryan continues to live in my life.  I think about him of...

Trust brought Atticus to the top of New England in subzero wind chill. That was the advice of Paige Foster, Atticus's breeder, way ...