The Adirondack Explorer is a non-profit newsmagazine devoted to the protection and enjoyment of the Adirondack Park.
September/October 2010
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What must be done to create a world-class bike path in the Adirondacks.
By ALAN WECHSLER
Someday, the Adirondacks could boast of a tourist attraction not found anywhere else in the East: a long-distance rail-trail that would enable bicyclists to take multiday trips through protected wild lands. The route could be used by others as well: trail runners, hikers, and, in winter, snowmobilers. READ MORE
The Explorer tests the navigability of a posted stretch of the Beaver River.
By PHIL BROWN
The Beaver River starts at Lake Lila and flows for eight miles through largely wild country to Stillwater Reservoir, and in so doing it connects two of the Adirondack Park's most popular destinations for canoe camping.But you don't have to end at Stillwater. You could continue down the Beaver through a series of smaller impoundments, linked by carry trails, until you've left the Park altogether.
Nor do you have to start at Lake Lila.
If I wished, I could leave my home in Saranac Lake with my canoe on my shoulders, put in Lake Flower, paddle up the Saranac River and the Saranac Lakes, paddle down the Raquette River to Tupper Lake, go up the Bog River a few miles, carry to Round Lake, paddle across Round to Little Tupper Lake, and thence hop from one small waterway to another to reach Lake Lila. READ MORE
Three guys play Robinson Crusoe on Lake Champlain's forgotten island.
By BRIAN MANN
A few quick strokes with the paddle draw me out from the Port Kent beach, my kayak threading through the tar-black pilings of the ferry dock. It's hot and still.
Lake Champlain is glassy calm, and the Green Mountains lie against the eastern horizon under a summer haze.
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, "You cannot step into the same river twice." His idea was that everything is always in flux, nothing stays the same.Heraclitus never set foot in Albany.
More than twenty years ago, Buffalo Assemblyman Bill Hoyt, a passionate wilderness paddler, introduced a bill to codify the public's common-law right of navigation. If enacted, it likely would have mitigated the confusion over the public's right to paddle on rivers that pass through private land in the Adirondacks and elsewhere in the state. READ MORE
Every time I drive past the Deer River Flow on Red Tavern Road, I slow down to admire the stunning view southeast toward Debar Mountain. On a few occasions, I have stopped to take pictures. Finally, I decided to paddle the thing last summer.
It is day two of the Hamilton County Birding Festival, and my husband, Jeff Scherer, and I are riding with Joan Collins and Judith Harper in the Moose River Plains. The plains are notable for the large diversity of habitats, which include bogs, open plains, boreal forests, hardwoods, and mountaintops of spruce.
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