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Town’s skeptical of train

By Adirondack Explorer

Officials in Tri-Lakes region urge state to study the benefits of converting rail corridor to a recreational trail or to just go ahead and tear up the tracks. By Brian Mann The battle over use of a historic railroad corridor through the heart of the Adirondacks escalated this fall, with a growing number of local…

A rafter’s rocky ride

By Adirondack Explorer

Once a hero to Adirondack rafters, Pat Cunningham has become a pariah among his peers, and the state is seeking to shut down his outfitting business following the accidental drowning of a customer. By Mary Thill On March 30, 2012, Hamilton County Court gave Patrick Cunningham a second chance. It came with conditions and a…

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What makes this a park?

By Adirondack Explorer

Environmentalists want the state to do more to protect and enhance the region’s identity as a special place. By Kim Martineau The Adirondack Park is more than double the size of Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks combined, but its greatness is not always apparent. Silver lakes and dark woods beckon from some roadsides, while lawns…

Park Perspectives: A day on Bald Mountain

By Adirondack Explorer

By Tom Woodman It’s mid-morning and the trail up Bald Mountain just outside Old Forge is already hopping, with hikers embarking on the ascent and others already returning from the top. A dad with a son and daughter who look to be on either side of ten years old, run down slanted rock edges, giggling.…

New trail a scenic treat for hikers

By Adirondack Explorer

Hikers will delight in one vista after another while climbing Moxham Mountain. By Phil Brown I have driven past Moxham Mountain in Minerva many times and admired its cliffs from afar. Back in the seventies and eighties, rock climbers put up more than a dozen routes on these steep slabs, but because the approach crosses…

Paddling suit advances

By Adirondack Explorer

Judge to hear arguments in November in dispute over public’s right to paddle on privately owned waterway. By Kenneth Aaron The landowners suing Adirondack Explorer Editor Phil Brown for trespass say he’s just the latest in a long line of people who have tried to pry open closed waters for public use, and if he…

Blazing their own trails

By Adirondack Explorer

In pursuing their passion, a crew of mountain bikers creates a resource for all in the greater Lake Placid region. By Alan Wechsler I’m following Keith McKeever and his friends up a mountain-bike trail on a bright summer afternoon. The trail climbs smoothly but unrelentingly as it switchbacks up the side of Winch Mountain in…

Highlands at risk

By Adirondack Explorer

  Critics say existing regulations are inadequate to stop upland development from marring the natural beauty of the Adirondack Park. By Kim Martineau In a field bordered by forested hills and rocky ridges, Dan Plumley unfurled a zoning map of the Adirondack Park. The color-coded map was a reminder of how much private land lay…

Editorials: September/October 2012

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A great day for the Park One of the most exciting acquisitions of land for the Forest Preserve in years has been expected since the Nature Conservancy bought 161,000 acres of land from Finch Paper in 2007. But as the state government fell into financial crisis and opposition to the purchase grew even among previous…

Park Perspectives: Nature within reach

By Adirondack Explorer

By Tom Woodman On an August day that was sweltering even in the Adirondacks, a woman from Troy entered the waters of Schroon Lake, tears running down her cheeks, and sat in the water, escaping the heat and basking in the views of the mountains across the lake. Attended closely by her son, and surrounded…

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