Rangers aid injured snowmobilers
By Adirondack Explorer
February 12, 2020
A 50-year-old man from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, had lost control of his snowmobile and was ejected into a tree.
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By Adirondack Explorer
February 12, 2020
A 50-year-old man from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, had lost control of his snowmobile and was ejected into a tree.
By Adirondack Explorer
February 7, 2020
The state Department of Environmental Conservation issued an avalanche advisory Friday for the High Peaks and other high elevation Adirondack mountains. The advisory is aimed at backcountry skiers, snowboarders, and others who may traverse slides and other steep open terrain. Snow depths on high elevation slopes in the High Peaks range from three to…
By Adirondack Explorer
February 6, 2020
A mountain in Lewis, N.Y., was renamed for suffragist Inez Milholland in December 2019. This video by Molly Ormsbee explores her efforts and why she was recently honored.
By Adirondack Explorer
February 3, 2020
Visitors could mistake Lapland Lake for a slice of Finland, with cabins named “Pohjan” and “Latu,” and a trail called “Karfu” (Finnish for bear).
By Adirondack Explorer
January 29, 2020
“I have a respectable hiking resume, and this is the first thing I've set out to do and was simply not successful."
By Adirondack Explorer
January 28, 2020
Using the screenshot, Forest Rangers Pries and Scott met ECO Rockefeller and ECO Jacob Clark and pinpointed the lost hunter's exact location. The officers found the 48-year-old hunter one-quarter mile off the trail and assisted him back to his vehicle.
By Adirondack Explorer
January 24, 2020
The purchase preserves an undeveloped patch along the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, which traverses 740 miles of rivers, lakes, ponds and portages from Old Forge to Fort Kent, Maine.
By Adirondack Explorer
January 23, 2020
“It’s absolutely vital to our survival to market the Adirondacks to tourism. The industries that existed years ago in the Adirondacks aren’t here anymore."
By Adirondack Explorer
January 22, 2020
The 38-year-old male and 33-year-old female hiker from Ithaca had intended to summit Whiteface via the Connery Pond trail but never made it to the summit.
By Adirondack Explorer
January 15, 2020
The only way to prevent a bloom is by targeting and stopping the source of excessive nutrients.