Audubon: In the polar vortex of late January 2014, the thermometer on my truck dash reads minus 6. "No Pass," the signs keep shouting. Why, I wonder, are people so paranoid about drivers way up here in northern New Hampshire's Coos County? Even a Masshole from Taxachusetts wouldn't pass on these narrow roads, snow-clad despite the salt and unlit by man or, on this night, moon or stars. Finally a more explicit sign enlightens me: "Northern Pass Kiss My Ass."
Reviled throughout New Hampshire, the Northern...