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August 24, 2009
Editor Phil Brown paddles through private land to assess the navigability of Shingle Shanty Brook and connecting waterways. If open to the public, the route would enhance the trip from Little Tupper Lake to Lake Lila. By PHIL BROWN If you love paddling in the Adirondacks, you put up with the portages. You might even…
August 24, 2009
Easement deal opens trail to the scenic summit of Loon Lake Mountain. By PHIL BROWN I’m hiking with two professional photographers, and I’ve come to the conclusion that photographers are not like other people. They see things we don’t. Like the way the late-afternoon light strikes the bud of a striped maple. Or the beauty…
August 24, 2009
By TOM WOODMAN Consider the cairn. A pile of rocks. For the hiker, these are usually pretty simple constructs: Stones placed at intervals to show the best route across open terrain. They are balanced and arranged just enough to make clear they are manmade guideposts, not accidental heaps. Many summits boast slightly grander stacks celebrating…
By Phil Brown
August 1, 2009
As snow melts below, skiers go up high to find great spring conditions on Algonquin and Wright. But things could be better. By PHIL BROWN It’s a balmy day in mid-April, and we’re following Ron Konowitz on the trail to Algonquin Peak, the Adirondacks’ second-highest summit. The snow has been melting for days, exposing roots…
April 22, 2009
Palm warbler. Photo by Jeff Nadler Climate change, other threats put boreal species at risk By PHIL BROWN A few years back, Brian McAllister received a phone call from a man who wanted to see a boreal chickadee. That’s not so unusual, except he was calling from California. “He flew into Montreal and then Saranac…
July 8, 2007
Members say state’s acquisition of hunting grounds would ruin a traditional way of life By George Earl Rifle in hand, clad in heavy wool plaid, and fueled by an early breakfast, I hoofed it up a steep ridge and came to an impressive vista of forested mountaintops and wild ponds. This was a rare glimpse…