Iowa Pacific seeks to sell Tahawus rail line
Owners of a thirty-mile rail line in the central Adirondacks who sparked controversy by storing dozens of empty tank cars...
Stories
What state budget means for the Adirondacks
New York’s new budget adopted by the state legislature dropped the Cuomo administration’s proposal to authorize tax cuts for owners of twenty-five-acre parcels...
Whiteface skier’s disappearance still a mystery
By Phil Brown
Constantinos “Danny” Filippidis left a trail of questions after skiing off Whiteface Mountain and ending up in Sacramento, California...
Where are the women?
Women are shaping Adirondack conservation, overcoming challenges, and steadily rising to leadership roles.
Giving winter a hand at Mount Van Ho
By Mike Lynch
Mount Van Hoevenberg manager Kris Cheney-Seymour said the short ski season goaded the center to find a way to stay open longer in warm winters. By the following winter, Van Ho had installed a snowmaking system known as the Snow Factory. The result: it stayed open 137 days last season.
Skiing Mount Marcy: a skier’s rite of winter
By Phil Brown
Starting from Adirondak Loj, it’s 7.4 miles to the 5,344-foot summit, which affords a spectacular panorama of the High Peaks and beyond. It usually takes me about five hours to reach the top, but some do it in less time. The descent typically takes me two to three hours.
Eastern cougar ruled extinct by feds
By Phil Brown
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded in January that the eastern cougar is extinct and so removed it from the federal list of endangered species. The odd thing, though, is that the eastern cougar may never have existed.
Missing Whiteface skier found alive in California
By Mike Lynch
Constantinos “Danny” Filippidis of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, made contact with local authorities there, ending a multi-agency search that included forest rangers, U.S. Border Patrol, state police and other state and federal agencies.
How 34 forest rangers and 12 volunteers saved a hiker’s life
By Mike Lynch
Thirty-four forest rangers and a dozen volunteers saved a hiker’s life after he injured his leg on an icy cliff on the remote Saddleback Mountain in the High Peaks Wilderness in early February.
Revisiting a classic Adirondack ski
By Phil Brown
On a clear day, skiers can obtain a spectacular view from the middle of the frozen Avalanche Lake of Algonquin Peak, Avalanche Pass, and Mount Colden.