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By Adirondack Explorer
May 1, 2008
Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain offers a unique view of the Champlain Valley and the High Peaks, but traditional the trail to the top is rather steep. The good news for your aching knees is that there’s a new and gentler route to the open summit and its fire tower.
By Adirondack Explorer
May 1, 2008
Northwest passages By Bill Ingersoll The northwestern Adirondacks has long been one of my favorite places to explore. It’s a region of secluded ponds, winding eskers, tannin-stained streams and ancient forests. The blowdown from a 1995 windstorm is an impressive demonstration of how natural forces prevail in truly wild areas. When I first teamed up…
By Adirondack Explorer
May 1, 2008
No one knows the Northville-Placid Trail better than Jeffrey and Donna Case. They have hiked it each spring for more than 20 years, so it’s only natural that they would be called on to rewrite the Adirondack Mountain Club’s guidebook for the 132-mile trail.
By Adirondack Explorer
March 1, 2008
What goes up must come down, but as we discovered on a delightful ski tour around Blue Mountain this winter, what comes down doesn’t have to go up.
By Adirondack Explorer
March 1, 2008
Herewith some impressions, recalled fondly and with anticipation on a mid-winter day, of a three-season canoe and kayak trip that starts at Coreys and ends at the state landing a few miles east of Tupper Lake. By Dick Beamish
By Adirondack Explorer
January 1, 2008
Located just northeast of Tupper Lake, the Deer Pond area is often overlooked by cross-country skiers in favor of the St. Regis Canoe Area a little to the north. By Tony Goodwin ...
By Adirondack Explorer
January 1, 2008
I had skied Jenkins Mountain once before and though I enjoyed the view from the summit, I didn’t particularly like the long slog down an old woods road to get to the mountain’s base.
By Adirondack Explorer
November 1, 2007
The last time Mike and I traveled across Avalanche Lake, we wore skis. It was below zero. Mike had frostbite but didn’t know it. He remarked how cool it would be to paddle on this remote finger of water, with cliffs rising out of the lake on both sides. By Phil Brown
By Adirondack Explorer
November 1, 2007
Bicycling the Tooley Pond Road in the northwestern Adirondacks is like gliding through a wilderness. By Betsy Kepes
By Adirondack Explorer
November 1, 2007
Picture the Adirondacks as they were just after the glaciers departed: Windswept peaks rise naked from the gravelly aftermath of the Ice Age, temporarily bare of soil and forest. By Bill Ingersoll