This is the virtually unknown and uncelebrated aspect of New Hampshire and its first-in-the-nation presidential primary: It actually is possible for lovers of skiing and politics to combine their two favorite sports. As someone who has covered 12 of the past 13 New Hampshire primaries for a series of newspapers, including The Times, I speak from experience.

In truth, you don’t really have to get up early to mix the outdoor sport of skiing with the indoor game of politics in the weeks before the primary, which this year is scheduled for Feb. 11. Sometimes the two are right outside your ski lodge.

The morning after my Black Mountain outing, I skied at North Conway’s fabled Cranmore Mountain, then simply popped nine-tenths of a mile down the road to see Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., speak to a standing-room-only crowd at North Conway’s Community Center. Perhaps it was only a coincidence that Mr. Buttigieg’s event was next door to the New England Ski Museum.

“This is part of why New Hampshire is so unusual,’’ the former Gov. John H. Sununu told me. “Our voters work hard at knowing all these candidates and they work hard at skiing in our White Mountains.’’