Ice climber falls, suffers injury on Pitchoff
By Adirondack Explorer
The 49-year-old climber from Pennsylvania fell approximately 50 feet.
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The familiar shriek of gulls
By Adirondack Explorer
Ring-billed gulls have a black ring encircling their yellow beak, which makes them easily identifiable, and you have heard their call more times than you could imagine.
Solutions reporting: Visitor management
By Adirondack Explorer
The Adirondack Explorer set out during the 2021 hiking season to learn more about visitor management strategies being tried—and some that seem to be working—in other popular recreation areas.
Rangers aid hikers unprepared for winter weather
By Adirondack Explorer
Recent NYS DEC Forest Ranger actions include rescues in winter conditions
Hikers get separated on Ester Mt.
By Adirondack Explorer
Recent NYS DEC Forest Ranger actions
Rangers find body of missing hunter
By Adirondack Explorer
Recent NYS DEC Forest Ranger actions include locating deceased hunter outside of Tupper Lake.
Protecting prime lakefront property
By Adirondack Explorer
Conservationist Peter Paine, who has been working for Adirondack Park protection for six decades, talks about Noblewood Park in Willsboro, which is located at the outlet of the Boquet River. Video by Mike Lynch. Click here for a profile of Peter Paine that ran in the Nov/Dec 2021 issue of Adirondack Explorer magazine.
Mt Fay hoist rescue, stranded kayak and more of this week’s ranger rescues
By Adirondack Explorer
Recent NYS DEC Forest Ranger actions:
Boy Scouts help out ill 80-year-old hiker at Tirrell Pond
By Adirondack Explorer
Recent NYS DEC Forest Ranger actions:
Weekend storm traps rescue workers
By Adirondack Explorer
Recent NYS DEC Forest Ranger actions