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By Adirondack Explorer
July 1, 2005
‘Study river’ for 30 years By Phil Brown A few years ago, my friend Brian Mann and I canoed from Jones Pond to Osgood Pond and followed the upper Osgood River as far as we could—to a small dam, beyond which the river is un-navigable for miles. This spring we returned to paddle the lower…
By Adirondack Explorer
July 1, 2005
A lot to the Little By Phil Brown I knew the Little River was wild. I could tell that by looking at a map, where it appears as a blue squiggly line winding through a vast wetland. In the section I planned to paddle, the Little crosses under only one road in 12 miles. But is…
By Adirondack Explorer
May 1, 2005
Explorers paddle and hike to Sagamore By Dick Beamish It was the most blasé great-blue heron we’d ever encountered in the Adirondacks, or at least the most single-minded one, so focused on the task at hand that it didn’t notice as we coasted by about two canoe lengths away. The tall, elegant bird was poised…
By Adirondack Explorer
May 1, 2005
A hiker’s tribute to an old friend By Phil Gallos Mount Baker was one of those places to which we’d go to play when we were kids. It was one of those places which we’d explore at least once a week: cliffs and ledges and old tote roads, quarries and dumps and intermittent streams. It…
By Adirondack Explorer
March 1, 2005
We couldn’t have asked for a more gorgeous day. Sunny, mild, hardly a breeze. “We don’t deserve this,” Brian remarked as we glided through the unbroken snow.
By Adirondack Explorer
March 1, 2005
Think of Lyon Mountain as the High Peak of the North. It stands alone in the northeastern corner of the Adirondack Park, offering superb views of Chazy Lake, the Champlain Valley, the Green Mountains ... By Phil Brown
By Adirondack Explorer
March 1, 2005
Lake George on Foot Great hikes in 4 nature preserves By Ruth Lamb Over the past 15 years, the Lake George Land Conservancy has preserved more than 10,000 acres. The purchases have protected wetlands, forests, ridgelines and lakeshore and saved habitats of great blue herons, peregrine falcons and bats, among other wildlife species. They’ve also…
By Adirondack Explorer
March 1, 2005
To most outdoors lovers, the Ausable River conjures up images of fly-fishermen casting into idyllic pools. By Michael Zeugin
By Adirondack Explorer
January 1, 2005
It’s the end of February, but I’m skiing in a T-shirt. The sun blazes out of a bluebird Adirondack sky. The thermometer reads 58 degrees in the Sharp Bridge State Campground parking lot. Hard to believe that two weeks ago I needed four layers and a down vest to fend off the cold.
By Adirondack Explorer
November 1, 2004
By Dick Beamish There’s much to be said for hiking the Low Peaks—the more modest Adirondacks well under 4,000 feet. Being less traveled, these trails offer greater solitude. Looking out and up from the lower summits can be as awesome as looking down from the higher ones. Because the distances and elevations are less, these…