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Dan Mathers – Editor
As the editorial director for New England Outdoors Media, Dan serves as the editor for Northeast Explorer and New England Boating. He is a writer and editor with a long history of working for newspapers, magazines, marketing companies, and medical websites. But the outdoors have always been his true love. He is an avid hiker, kayaker, and trail runner. Don’t be fooled — he is a TERRIBLE runner. He has the short, stubby legs of a Jack Russell Terrier and the cardio of a three-pack-a-day smoker. But he’s plenty dumb enough to not know when to quit, so he’s completed several 100-mile races, and he’s competed in such events as the 24-hour World’s Toughest Mudder and Spartan Death Race. He started the New England outdoors site Six States in 2006, which later morphed into Northeast Explorer in 2011. Northeast Explorer joined New England Outdoors Media in Spring 2025. You can read some of Dan’s Northeast Explorer articles here:
4 Days, 48 Peaks, 231 Miles, 86K Feet: The Mind-Blowing New White Mountains FKT
Pittsburg: New Hampshire’s Wild Borderland
10 Years Later: The Kate Matrosova Tragedy
Tall Fail: Losing To Katahdin
The 10 Best Hikes In New England
Life On Cape Cod Takes Shape
Spit Happens On Mount Chocorua
Paddling Massachusetts’ North River
Nate Weitzer
Nate is an avid trail runner, backcountry skier, and mountain climber living in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, where he writes for multiple publications. Over the past 20 years he’s thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, a portion of the Pacific Crest Trail, climbed Mount Rainier, Adams, Baker, Hood, and skied off multiple volcanoes. He has summitted the New Hampshire 48 in all four seasons, finished the Adirondack 46er list while working trail maintenance in the Keene Valley area, and completed the Colorado 14ers over the course of four summers. You can read some of Nate’s Northeast Explorer articles here:
Battling Bubba: Big Miles At New Hampshire’s Rugged Backyard Ultra
Lexi Jackson: New Hampshire’s Unlikely Ultrarunner
Mountains, Miles, And A Little Blood: The Inaugural White Mountains 100
Chris Weiss
Chris is a New Jersey writer and snowboarder who wrote about his desperate attempt to save his winter with a 7-hour drive to Jay Peak.
Derek Pfeffer
Derek Pfeffer is a freelance writer, hiker and accomplished beer enthusiast. He wrote about a bushwacking adventure (misadventure?) for Northeast Explorer.
Into The Meatgrinder: Bushwacking Maine’s Speckled Mountain
Corey Norman
Corey is a Maine-based filmmaker and paddler. He wrote about whitewater spots near Portland, Maine for Northeast Explorer.
6 Whitewater Hotspots Near Portland
David Mills
David has hiked throughout New England, as well as in the Alps and Rocky Mountains. He has a degree in Environmental Studies and is a student member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He lives in Concord, New Hampshire. He wrote about Maine’s Grafton Loop Trail for Northeast Explorer.
