Around 100 people cleared out 2,000 pounds from Ausable River's banks By Tim Rowland It’s been a long winter. Fourteen months, by some gauges. So when three times the number of people than organizers were expecting showed up to help clean up … [Read more...] about Annual watershed cleanup hits high water mark
North Country Scenic Trail runs through remote Adirondack paths
Developing trail connects 8 northern U.S. states By Tim Rowland Throughout the northern U.S. backcountry, as part of a monumental idea conceived a half century ago, a trail is being born. It is visible but not really, like a skim of ice … [Read more...] about North Country Scenic Trail runs through remote Adirondack paths
Ripple Effect
Builder’s light canoes and weighty legacy flow through park lore By Tim Rowland The boats built by Peter Hornbeck have exhibited legendary toughness, but occasionally an extraordinary and often boneheaded circumstance would lead to a tear in … [Read more...] about Ripple Effect
Cold days, warm memories
Adirondack fishing’s ‘brotherhood of the ice’ remains as determined as in its heyday By Tim Rowland Somewhere high over Lake Ontario last February the weather gods were cackling with wild abandon. They had cooked up a little lake-effect snow, … [Read more...] about Cold days, warm memories
Rural Adirondack churches struggle, find opportunity in pandemic
By Tim Rowland Three years ago, Pastor Donna Frischknecht-Jackson had what she thought was an imaginative solution for rural North Country churches that were having trouble affording, or even finding, someone to minister to their congregations. On … [Read more...] about Rural Adirondack churches struggle, find opportunity in pandemic
Hiking Wilmington Slide: A perfect shoulder-season outing
By Tim Rowland Sometimes you just get an itch to climb a slide. Maybe it’s the physical challenge. Maybe it’s the wall-to-wall view you get on your way up. Maybe it’s the way after you push through the “What in the world am I doing this for?” … [Read more...] about Hiking Wilmington Slide: A perfect shoulder-season outing