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By Dick Beamish There’s much to be said for hiking the Low Peaks—the more modest Adirondacks well under 4,000 feet. Being less traveled, these trails offer greater solitude. Looking out and up from the lower summits can be as awesome as looking down from the higher ones. Because the distances and elevations are less, these…
Ask a roomful of cross-country skiers to name the best backcountry tour in the Adirondacks and you’re sure to get a roomful of answers. But there’s little room for debate about the best new ski tour: Henderson Lake to Duck Hole.
15 miles to paradise Trek through old-growth forest leads to remote Sand Lake By Phil Brown This backpacking trip was about creating memories. Because in a few weeks he’d be gone, off to Germany for 10 months to study at the University of Wurzburg. If that’s a big step for a 19-year-old, it’s also a…
Paddlers enjoy day full of wild, unmarred beauty By Dick Beamish On Dave Cilley’s new waterproof “Adirondack Paddler’s Map” there seems to be almost as much water as land in the Saranac Lakes region, which is where we’re bound with our 17-foot Kevlar canoe and my 12-speed bicycle. It’s a sunny morning in June, and…
Light canoe opens up backcountry ponds By Mark Bowie There were many instances as a child, standing on the shore of an Adirondack lake or pond, that I was envious of boaters on the water. When I didn’t have access to a boat, I craved what the boaters had—freedom, mobility. They enjoyed the view less…
By Laurence T. Cagle I used to be a peak-bagger. First, I climbed all of the 46 High Peaks. Then I took on the highest peaks in the Catskills and the mountainous Long Trail in Vermont. But I got over my obsession after volunteering to update Adirondack Trails: Central Region for the Adirondack Mountain Club.…
Two guys on top of the World By Michael Larabee He’d prefer to do Marcy. Or Little John Mountain back behind our rental, because he likes to pretend he’s Robin Hood. Or, better yet, Everest. But I prefer Owls Head Mountain, because I want to carry him as little of the way as possible. Four-year-olds…
People in Speculator refer to the outer loop of their new mountain bike system as “the family trail.” Everyone I talked to assured me the roads were wide, the dirt hard-packed and the downhills not too steep. By Kathy Ceceri
We had just pedaled through 30 feet of flooded trail beside a beaver pond when Bert Yost stopped on a wooden bridge over the pond’s outlet. By Phil Brown
It is a balmy weekend, and my husband and I have a free Saturday. Not ones for letting a vivid autumn day go to waste, we’ve decided to spend it paddling a pair of 16-foot plastic sea kayaks along one of the more spectacular waterborne day trips in the Adirondack region: the stretch of Lake Champlain between Westport and Essex.