Last weekend I struggled up the steep and icy trails of Mt. Kearsarge. But we made it to the top and it was good fun.

This weekend there was again some ice in the picture, albeit a different kind of ice. My boys, the University of Maine Black Bears, two-time NCAA National Hockey Champions, were also out there striving for the top. And they skated and checked and scored their way to another berth in the Frozen Four.

Oh, do they make this Maine alum proud. So much so that I'm sitting here humming the Maine Stein Song on this particularly beautiful blue and sunny Monday morning.

To the Frozen Four we go again, next Thursday, April 6th at 8PM at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee (site of Maine's first championship in April 1993). Maine against the Wisconsin Badgers.

I had a great weekend outdoors skiing at Cannon and Wildcat and comfortably holing up at the fine AMC Highland Center. Hope yours was a fun one outdoors, too.

But more on all that later.

For now all I can say is:

M-A-I-N-E... Goooooooooooooooooooooo Blue!