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By Adirondack Explorer
March 1, 2004
By Bill Ingersoll In my pursuit to help keep Barbara McMartin’s Discover the Adirondacks series of hiking guidebooks up to date, I have visited every corner of the Park, in every season. I am drawn to the Adirondacks week after week because there is so much to see and so much that I have still…
By Adirondack Explorer
January 1, 2004
When the snow gets deep, so does the longing to get out into the woods—at least if you’re a snowshoer. Below are four winter hikes up mountains that offer magnificent vistas in different parts of the Adirondacks.
By Adirondack Explorer
January 1, 2004
By Robin Ambrosino In a fit of cabin fever I called my friend Thad. I’d been pressing my nose against the window for weeks, as more snow than we’d had in years created a thick inviting carpet over the landscape. But below-zero temperatures and a nasty wind chill had been keeping me from enjoying it.…
By Adirondack Explorer
January 1, 2004
He had dreams of skiing in the Olympics. He went to high school at Burke Mountain Ski Academy, in Vermont, where he trained 150 days a year. By 15, he was the nation’s 10th-ranked giant slalom skier in his age group.
By Adirondack Explorer
January 1, 2004
Happy day! An early, mid-November blizzard has graced our northern end of the Adirondacks with nine inches of snow. Last weekend we were hiking these trails at the state’s Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smiths. Today we’ll be skiing on them.
By Adirondack Explorer
November 1, 2003
For those who can't wait for full-blown winter to arrive, here are ten early season ski trips.
By Adirondack Explorer
November 1, 2003
I’ve lived around Lake Placid long enough to have hiked, biked or skied most of the official trails in the region, so whenever I discover a new one that I like, I tend to get excited. Such was the case last winter when I skied to Cooper Kiln Pond.
By Adirondack Explorer
November 1, 2003
No bugs, no crowds, no mud (mostly), colorful foliage and, often enough, previews of winter at high elevation. How can anyone resist hiking in fall? So in early October, I spurred my family out and up into the hills above Wilmington.
By Adirondack Explorer
November 1, 2003
This year the Open Space Institute purchased 9,600 acres from NL Industries bordering the High Peaks. Sometime soon, the state plans to buy 6,200 acres from OSI and add them to the “forever wild” Forest Preserve. The public then will own Henderson Lake and the Preston Ponds, pristine lakes with magnificent views.
By Adirondack Explorer
September 1, 2003
The Champlain Valley comes pretty close to Bikers’ Heaven, with its quiet country roads, friendly villages, rolling farmland, and frequent views of lake and mountains. By Dick Beamish