Comment on the Adirondack Park state lands plan: Time to revisit backcountry skiing trails
By Phil Brown
Plan updates should include new definition to allow for wider ski trails
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Adirondack Park Agency’s proposed amendments strike balance between accessibility, wilderness
Updates to Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan can protect wilderness lands AND allow access to people with disabilities
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The Buck (Mountain) stops here
By Tim Rowland
A lesson on names and places
When it comes to ProcellaCOR and Lake George, the state isn’t listening
Why take a risk in the Queen of American lakes?
Revamped 46er app helps hikers identify peaks
By breviews
In 2011, Keith Kubarek developed version 1.0 of “ADK46erNow," an app designed to help hikers with all aspects of their climbs of the forty-six High Peaks.
A new era for the Adirondacks
Three areas that should be priorities as we look at ways to strengthen Park protection
Life Under the Fast Lane
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The Adirondack Park has its share of guidebooks—for hiking, paddling, birding, fishing, cross-country skiing, you name it. Just when you think the field has been exhausted along comes another. The latest addition to the genre is one I never would have foreseen: a guidebook to the culverts under the Northway. The author, Tom DuBois, is…
Discover the Adirondacks
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THE APPALACHIAN Mountain Club has published a multisport guidebook that contains suggestions for hiking, paddling, and biking in the Adirondack Park. Written by Peter Kick, Discover the Adirondacks covers twenty-six hikes, thirteen canoe trips, and eleven bike rides throughout the Park, with accompanying maps and black-and-white photos. It also includes a number of short essays…
High Peak Trails
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The Adirondack Mountain Club has issued the fourteenth edition of its popular High Peaks Trails guidebook, and some might say it’s bigger and better than ever. No one can dispute that it’s bigger. The new edition measures 5½ inches wide by 8½ inches tall, whereas the previous edition measured 5 by 7. This continues a…
Adirondack Paddling: 60 Great Flatwater Adventures
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Long before I went car camping with high school friends, before I discovered the High Peaks, before I explored nature preserves close to my Capital Region home, I saw nature from the middle of a canoe. Nestled next to my brother in my parents’ Grumman, I trailed my fingers in the water and watched the…