Snow future
By Brandon Loomis
Snow's flaky future: Communities, ski centers and individuals adjust to changes in the winter season and decrease in overall snow cover.
Brandon Loomis
Brandon Loomis is editor of the Adirondack Explorer.
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Forging an old path
By Brandon Loomis
Neighbors unite to reopen Piseco’s favorite ski trail
An unexpected roadside ski trail in Duane
By Brandon Loomis
By Brandon Loomis I picked the right day to skip work and travel to Potsdam on some personal business this Wednesday—a brilliantly sunny day immediately following a substantial snowfall. I loaded my Nordic skis into the car, thinking I’d find some trail on or around the Santa Clara Conservation Easement Tract in the northwestern Adirondacks.…
Exploring questions for the year ahead
By Brandon Loomis
The Adirondack Explorer heads into 2021 the same way we and inquiring readers begin every year: with lots of questions.
Friends of Camp Santanoni cancels winter tours
By Brandon Loomis
There’ll be no fireside cocoa at Camp Santanoni this winter, the latest Adirondack tradition to go dormant during the coronavirus pandemic.
Shoulder season?
By Brandon Loomis
We’re at that odd time of year when high temperatures can change dozens of degrees from day to day, and one wonders whether it’s time to move the canoes and backpacks from the porch to make room for the skis and boots. As I write this, on a Friday afternoon, most of the leaves outside…
A flag flap
By Brandon Loomis
Some folks in Tupper Lake weren’t pleased with our publication of a photo showing a Confederate flag in a window there. They viewed it as a provocation intended to stir divisions. Others apparently hoped the image in our September/October magazine would inspire their Town Board to adopt a resolution that renounced “symbols of racism and…
Sunbeams and churning waters
By Brandon Loomis
We have a long way to go in the North Country and across New York toward reaching our state’s ambitious clean-energy and climate-protection goals. It’s going to take all hands on deck, and, it turns out, there’s potential for the Adirondack Park to play a significant role. Already, there’s a growing push for both solar…
More than pretty places
By Brandon Loomis
Now and then we hear complaints that all of our pretty photography, and some of the accompanying writing, only serves to drive visitors to parts of the Adirondacks that don’t need or can’t handle any more pressure. This is the Instagram problem that we hear so much about, with complaints about those who geotag their…
Saranac Lake joins New York’s growing list of “Climate Smart Communities”
By Brandon Loomis
The village is at work or planning energy programs including hydropower and wind that will help achieve the state’s silver designation, Mayor Clyde Rabideau said.