A road trip is fun when you take a couple of friends with you: TomTom the GPS navigator and Sirius satellite radio make
the time fly when you're whizzing up Route 495 for what might be the last day of cross-country skiing at the closest real touring center to Rhode Island: Windblown.Located in southern NH just across the Massachusetts border in the quaint town of New Ipswich, Windblown has 40Ks of hilly trails that traverse Barrett Mountain in the shadow of the great Monadnock.
When it has snow, as it does now, this ski area is as good as many areas much farther
north — better, if you include the fact that you can leave Providence at 9 a.m. (after picking up a latte from Seven Stars bakery), be on the slopes by 11:15, ski for a couple of hours, and be back home before it's even dark at 4 p.m.Yesterday, Sunday, Windblown had more than 700 skiers, but today, with most people back at work, there might have been a dozen.
