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15 miles to paradise Trek through old-growth forest leads to remote Sand Lake By Phil Brown This backpacking trip was about creating memories. Because in a few weeks he’d be gone, off to Germany for 10 months to study at the University of Wurzburg. If that’s a big step for a 19-year-old, it’s also a…
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Paddlers enjoy day full of wild, unmarred beauty By Dick Beamish On Dave Cilley’s new waterproof “Adirondack Paddler’s Map” there seems to be almost as much water as land in the Saranac Lakes region, which is where we’re bound with our 17-foot Kevlar canoe and my 12-speed bicycle. It’s a sunny morning in June, and…
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Light canoe opens up backcountry ponds By Mark Bowie There were many instances as a child, standing on the shore of an Adirondack lake or pond, that I was envious of boaters on the water. When I didn’t have access to a boat, I craved what the boaters had—freedom, mobility. They enjoyed the view less…
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By Laurence T. Cagle I used to be a peak-bagger. First, I climbed all of the 46 High Peaks. Then I took on the highest peaks in the Catskills and the mountainous Long Trail in Vermont. But I got over my obsession after volunteering to update Adirondack Trails: Central Region for the Adirondack Mountain Club.…
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Two guys on top of the World By Michael Larabee He’d prefer to do Marcy. Or Little John Mountain back behind our rental, because he likes to pretend he’s Robin Hood. Or, better yet, Everest. But I prefer Owls Head Mountain, because I want to carry him as little of the way as possible. Four-year-olds…
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People in Speculator refer to the outer loop of their new mountain bike system as “the family trail.” Everyone I talked to assured me the roads were wide, the dirt hard-packed and the downhills not too steep. By Kathy Ceceri
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We had just pedaled through 30 feet of flooded trail beside a beaver pond when Bert Yost stopped on a wooden bridge over the pond’s outlet. By Phil Brown
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It is a balmy weekend, and my husband and I have a free Saturday. Not ones for letting a vivid autumn day go to waste, we’ve decided to spend it paddling a pair of 16-foot plastic sea kayaks along one of the more spectacular waterborne day trips in the Adirondack region: the stretch of Lake Champlain between Westport and Essex.
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Going with the flow By Phil Brown When Gov. George Pataki reached a deal with Champion International in 1998 to save 139,000 acres in the northern Adirondacks, canoeists and kayakers rejoiced at the paddling prospects: Stretches of five major rivers, long off limits, would be open to the public. But the deal also made possible…
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Along with the Champlain Valley, the gentle terrain north of Saranac Lake offers the best road biking in the Adirondacks. By Dick Beamish ...