Mount Colden from the air
This aerial footage of Mount Colden was taken by Kevin MacKenzie, a member of the team that took part in the July 31 rescue of a hiker stranded on Colden’s Trap Dike. Click here for the full story.
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Champlain Valley Hikes
By Mike Lynch
Champlain Area Trails Executive Director Chris Maron joins Explorer reporter Mike Lynch for a talk about hiking in the Champlain Valley.
Outdoor outings for people of color
Outdoor Afro is a national network of trained outings leaders whose goals are to connect Black people to the outdoors, protect the outdoors and “reimagine Blackness in the outdoors” by exploring Black contributions Find out more about recent Adirondack outings here: https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/outdoor-afro-helps-people-of-color-find-their-adirondack-comfort-zone Video by Adirondack Explorer Editor Brandon Loomis
Million Dollar Beach closures
By Melissa Hart
Read the full story here: https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/lake-george-beach-closures
Time-lapse from Hurricane Mountain
A video time-lapse from the top of Hurricane Mountain in Essex County.
Moving a lean-to
Volunteers with Lean2Rescue relocate the Beaver Point shelter on Lake Colden. The nonprofit group of Adirondack backcountry enthusiasts builds some new structures and restores others, such as this one. Video by Brandon Loomis.
Scott van Laer reflects on ranger career
Scott van Laer looks back on his run as a DEC forest ranger and ranger union representative.
‘A Wild Idea’ conversation
By Melissa Hart
A conversation between Brad Edmondson, author of “A Wild Idea” and Brandon Loomis, editor of Adirondack Explorer. Check out our 9-part series about the formation of the Adirondack Park Agency, that stems from the research Edmondson did for his book.
Restoring lean-tos
Some 300 enthusiasts—roughly 40 of them active at any time—of the group Lean2Rescue have “rescued” 99 shelters. The 100th is happening this weekend with a relocation from Lake Colden in the High Peaks Wilderness.
Bug-fighting bugs
Nick Dietschler, of the NYS Hemlock Initiative, discusses ways of managing the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid. The Huyck Preserve in the Capital Region, uses an insecticide and more recently a predator fly that eats adelgids. Hemlock woolly adelgid is also impacting hemlock trees on the eastern shores of Lake George. Dietschler and his colleagues will…