The onetime street preacher said he overcame thieves, attacking baboons, and snakes on his odyssey hauling a wooden cross on a 43,000-mile pilgrimage on foot.

Among the more than 60 cross-country ski areas in New England, Prospect Mountain is different. Not only is this a 2,740-foot mountain (734 feet higher than Mount Wachusett), but its base, sitting at 2 ...