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By Adirondack Explorer
November 1, 2002
Gorge’s vistas worth the work By Phil Brown Is this it? I can hear the river. I can see the mountains on the opposite side of the Hudson Gorge. But I don’t see OK Slip Falls. Maybe this is the wrong spot or maybe the falls dried up in the recent drought. It’s not uncommon…
By Adirondack Explorer
November 1, 2002
By Phil Brown The other day I received in the mail a slim book of verse titled Sightings of the Eagle and Other Adirondack Poems. The author, Bud Church, rhapsodizes about his adventures on Osgood Pond, including seven eagle sightings in recent years. I’m no poet, and I know it, so I don’t intend to…
By Adirondack Explorer
September 1, 2002
By Phil Brown I’m standing on the shore of Bumps Pond, listening to an evening chorus of frogs and debating whether to climb Erebus Mountain—named for the dark netherworld in Greek mythology, the antechamber of hell. And that’s exactly where I’m afraid I’ll end up. I’ve been hiking more or less continuously for 6½ hours…
By Adirondack Explorer
September 1, 2002
Jeff and Donna Case of Syracuse have hiked the Northville-Placid Trail 16 times—more than anyone else they know of. “In fact, our dog has done it more times than anyone else,” Donna said. “He’s done it 10 times.” By Peter Crowley.
By Adirondack Explorer
September 1, 2002
He did it, but not everyone is thrilled. Ted “Cave Dog” Keizer set a speed record for climbing the 46 High Peaks: 3 days, 18 hours, 14 minutes. He beat the old mark by a full day. By Phil Brown.
By Adirondack Explorer
September 1, 2002
Black Mountain, at 2,646 feet, is the highest peak in the Lake George region, but if you climb it from the east, rather than from the lake, you need to ascend only about 1,000 feet over 2.5 miles to enjoy the wonderful views from the summit. By Rick Karlin.
By Adirondack Explorer
September 1, 2002
Wakely Mountain has much in common with Blue Mountain. By Phil Brown.
By Adirondack Explorer
September 1, 2002
In his classic guidebook Adirondack Canoe Waters: North Flow, Paul Jamieson describes the Jordan River as a mysterious stream flowing through a wild land “where spruce-fir swamps are as hauntingly primitive and boreal as anything to be found in the Adirondacks today.”
By Adirondack Explorer
July 1, 2002
A hike on the quiet side By Phil Brown Last September I did a solo end-to-end hike. The start and finish were several miles apart, and I had only one car. I’ve bicycled from one trailhead to the other in similar circumstances, but in this case, I neither cycled nor walked between trailheads. I know…
By Adirondack Explorer
July 1, 2002
As you drive to Lens Lake, you get the feeling you are retreating from civilization. By Robin Ambrosino