Diner breakfast, then ski

The Salem Diner, in Salem, Mass.

“When I go skiing in New England, I usually wake up early and drive up to Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine to make it in time for chairlift opening. That means leaving early and getting breakfast at one of the little quaint diners up in the mountains.’’

Sunita Williams (born 1965), American astronaut and U.S. Navy officer who grew up in the Boston area.

She graduated from Needham High School, in Needham, Mass.

On the Upper Wildcat Trail, at the Wildcat Mountain Ski Area, in New Hampshire. The Presidential Range of the White Mountains looms to the west.