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The adventure swimmers

By Michael Virtanen

While many thousands of people hike Adirondack trails in the summertime, the ranks of open-water swimmers are so far just a drop in the backcountry’s bucket. By one estimate, the hard core of adventure swimmers may number as few as 100, but their enthusiasm runs deep and they recruit.

Paddle inspo: Some ideas for kayak trips

By Adirondack Explorer

Ready to get started kayaking or need some fresh ideas of where to go? We’ve compiled some favorites from the Explorer’s archive: 4 great paddles: Mark Bowie shares his favorite flatwater trips Sprite Creek: Paddle reveals contrast between developed and natural shorelines: Sprite creek is unknown to most canoeists in the Adirondacks and is not…

Up for public comment: Campfires, horseback riding changes to Essex Chain Lakes area

By Gwendolyn Craig

The Adirondack Park Agency will collect public comments on campfire and parking changes to the Essex Chain Lakes Primitive Area.

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New land conservation protects Lake George water

By Francesca Krempa

These conservation measures are part of the larger goal the LGLC sets out to address: engaging private landowners and the public to permanently protect the nearly 12,000 acres of Lake George wildness and its 6.5 miles of pristine shoreline.

Birding on Fishing Brook

By Mike Lynch

Fishing Brook has the feel of a brook deep in the backcountry. The air is often thick with bugs and the sounds of birds. Beaver dams clog the waterway, creating meadows. Yellow wildflowers—swamp candles—light up the shorelines. Brook trout swim in the shadows.

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Ranger report: Lost, injured and dehydrated hikers

By Adirondack Explorer

Recent DEC Forest Ranger actions: Town of KeeneEssex CountyWilderness Rescue: On July 12 at 10:50 a.m., DEC’s Ray Brook Dispatch received a call reporting an injured hiker on Upper Wolfjaw in the Eastern High Peaks. The caller stated he saw a 25-year-old man from Queensbury hiking solo with a knee injury from a fall on wet…

Essex Chain campfires, North Elba housing and cell towers on the APA agenda

By Gwendolyn Craig

The Adirondack Park Agency will convene at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 16 with a slate of projects and four new board members starting.

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Adirondack researchers aid the fight against COVID-19

By Tim Rowland

When COVID-19 began to spread, Trudeau Institute was ready to help with testing and the search for vaccines and treatments.

Dogs on a mission in Tupper Lake

By Brandon Loomis

The Tupper Lake Triad—like the Saranac Lake 6er or the Lake Placid 9er—is a hiking challenge designed for those who want more (or less) of the glory that comes from climbing the park’s 46 High Peaks to claim the patch of an Adirondack 46er.

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High Peaks hiker shuttles on hold

By Tim Rowland

Combined with increased and more-enforced parking restrictions along state and town roads and virus-related parking-lot restrictions, the lack of shuttles will severely reduce hiker access to some of the Adirondacks’ most popular mountain destinations this summer.

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