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Home : nature writing books and essays by Eric PinderClouds wash over Mount Katahdin's Tablelands, just a mile or so from the northern terminus of the Appalachian TrailSandy Stream Pond in Baxter State Park, with a view of Mount Katahdin. This is moose country. I have never not seen a moose at Sandy Stream Pond.







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Eric Pinder was born in upstate New York, attended college in western Massachusetts, graduated, and some time later drove to northern New Hampshire in a rusty Chevy Nova packed with a few clothes, almost no furniture, and about a dozen boxes of books.

Eric’s lifelong interests in science and the outdoors led to jobs at the Appalachian Mountain Club and Mount Washington Observatory. For seven years he lived and worked as a weather observer atop the snowy, windswept, 6288-foot summit of Mount Washington, the “Home of the World’s Worst Weather.” His experiences there inspired two books, Life at the Top and Tying Down the Wind.

His articles and stories have appeared in Weatherwise, Appalachian Trailway News, Newsday, Bostonia, and other publications. He teaches a nature writing class at Chester College of New England and occasionally teaches an introductory weather course at Barnes & Noble University. His latest books are Sheep Football and North to Katahdin, about the appeal of mountains and wilderness. (Read a review.)He also is working on a novel and several children’s books.

Eric enjoys hiking and biking up the hills of New Hampshire, but has not yet qualified to join the Four Thousand Footer Club (for people who have climbed each of the state’s 48 peaks rising 4000+ feet). He has, however, climbed one of those peaks (Mount Washington) at least 48 times and thinks that ought to count.

He lives in Berlin, New Hampshire.

Nature writer Eric Pinder at the base of Mount Washington

Photograph by Katie Koster

Interviews Being interviewed by The Weather Channel at the Mount Washington Observatory

North to Katahdin Listen to Eric Pinder and host Shay Zeller in this 1/2-hour interview. Originally aired on NHPR’s The Front Porch, August 16, 2005.

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