Quebec Brook
By Adirondack Explorer
July 1, 2002
It’s midweek, a gorgeous summer day, and I’m alone with my canoe on Quebec Brook. By Brian Mann
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Blue Mountain Lake to Raquette Lake
By Adirondack Explorer
July 1, 2002
Exploring 3 lakes and a river By Christopher Angus The village of Blue Mountain Lake greets us in typically sleepy hamlet fashion. The big hotels of a hundred years ago are long gone. Most of the action today is near the top of the hill where the Adirondack Museum sits in regal splendor. But down…
Raquette River
By Adirondack Explorer
July 1, 2002
It’s not often that you can paddle through the woods in a canoe, but we were looking forward to just such a magical adventure in mid-April, when the snowmelt and spring rains usually inundate the silver-maple floodplains along the Stony Creek Ponds outlet and the Raquette River. By Phil Brown
Hurricane Crag
By Adirondack Explorer
May 1, 2002
As Colin Loher leads the way up through thick birch and maple, his climbing gear chimes with each step. By Brian Mann
Boreal Life Trail
By Adirondack Explorer
May 1, 2002
Every grizzled Adirondack old-timer in wool plaid and every nouveau-mountaineer in Gore-Tex who visits the new Boreal Life Trail at the Paul Smiths Visitor Interpretive Center is sure to come away with one clear impression: There’s nothing boring about the boreal life along this 1.1-mile walk. By Edward Kanze
Kanoeing the Kunjamuk
By Adirondack Explorer
May 1, 2002
If you’ve ever driven north on Route 30 through Speculator, you may have passed a gem of a river without realizing it. By Robin Ambrosino
The ponds less paddled
By Adirondack Explorer
May 1, 2002
Small waters offer solitude By Jeff Nadler We drove down the same dirt road that leads to the Flow, but this time we stopped at an unmarked pulloff. There were no other cars. We carried our canoe and gear along a half-mile path and soon beheld a wild expanse of water, with two small islands…
Pharaoh Lake on skis
By Adirondack Explorer
March 1, 2002
Of the deer, there was little left. We were first humans to find it, a fact evident by the lack of ski trails or snowshoe prints. There was no warning of the carnage ahead—just an open clearing in the woods, and then the shouts of awe from my friend Jim, who was in the lead.
Long trail proposed: over 20 summits
By Adirondack Explorer
March 1, 2002
Tony Goodwin’s short, powerful legs are churning up a steep, 1,000-foot trail to Brown Mountain in the Tongue Mountain Range above Lake George. Perspiration dapples his wind-burned brow. Yellow and orange maple leaves rustle in the wake of his battered, split-at-the-seams leather hiking boots.
Goodman Mountain
By Adirondack Explorer
March 1, 2002
You can reach the 2,178-foot summit of “Goodman Mountain” by an easy bushwhack. Start at the unpaved parking area for Lumberjack Spring, on the east side of Route 30 a few hundred yards south of the right turn for County Route 421 (the road to Bog River Falls and Horseshoe Lake).