If you’re traveling from or through Portland, you can rent a pair of snowshoes from Mountain Shop ($12 for two nights) or Next Adventure ($20 per day), and you’ll find a handful of ski shops and ski ...

Snowshoeing in the Adirondacks on a winter day with chickadees for company A snowshoe trek in the Adirondack Mountains on a classic winter day It's been a long, hard winter in much of the U.S., a ...

For the first time in years, the Northeast is experiencing a long, deep winter. For people who love snow it's a playground.

But for people like NPR's Brian Mann, winter is a playground. Brian went snowshoeing in New York's Adirondack Mountains and sent us this audio postcard. (SOUNDBITE OF FOOTSTEPS IN SNOW ...