Debar ski circuit
By Adirondack Explorer
Debar Ski Circuit, a peaceful loop trail offering a serene backcountry skiing adventure in the Adirondacks.
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Walk on the Wild Side
By Adirondack Explorer
Vermonter ventures into High Peaks By Caleb Daniloff We leave our Vermont home before dawn, nudging our twin beams of light across the Champlain Bridge and onto New York Route 9N. Not long after crossing into the Adirondack Park, a large coyote lopes across the road, silver and blond fur glinting in our headlights, eyes…
Panther Pond
By Adirondack Explorer
Looking for the wild things By Akum Norder Our expedition leader’s britches keep falling down. She’s zigzagging all over the trail, and she trips on every root she crosses. But we’d follow her anywhere. My daughter, husband and I are on our way to Panther Pond, a half-hour drive west of Lowville in a remote…
Skiing Tongue Mountain
By Adirondack Explorer
Backcountry skiers in the northern Adirondacks spent most of last winter waiting for the big snowstorm that didn’t show up. So when Lake George got hit by a nor’easter in late January, I decided to go to the snow.
Moss Lake grows on you
By Adirondack Explorer
Last winter, my friends and I stumbled across one of the many wonderful secrets hidden in the western Adirondacks.
Escape to Panther Gorge
By Adirondack Explorer
By Mary Lou Recor Panther Gorge has always interested me, given its remote location in the deepest heart of the High Peaks, shadowed by the walls of Skylight, Marcy and Haystack. I imagined it as dark and mysterious. Even its name evokes fanciful thoughts of wildness and an edge of danger. But until this past…
Bob Marshall’s Big Hike
By Adirondack Explorer
Ted “Cave Dog” Keizer did it, though not in the way he planned. Keizer climbed Mount Jo near Adirondak Loj on a windy, overcast morning in late November to complete his quest to hike 50 kilometers (about 30 miles) a day in each of the 50 states. By Phil Brown
Jackrabbit trail
By Adirondack Explorer
5:45: Wake up. It’s late winter. I’m in my friends Jack and Mary Jean Burke’s house on Keese Mill Road in Paul Smiths.
On finding Lost Pond
By Adirondack Explorer
I’m on a ridge, not exactly sure where, and I can’t see more than a few feet past the branches that just poked me in the face. By Phil Brown
Jordan River
By Adirondack Explorer
Journey up the Jordan By Mark Bowie Way up north, a secluded river flows through cathedral-like corridors of stately spruce, tamarack, balsam fir and white pine. The duotone dark-green and black waterscape looks ancient and primitive. Straight passages give way upstream to serpentine segments that wobble across the valley. They’re often lined with alders, but…