In the summer of 2015, while driving my beat-up Toyota truck through the back roads of northern Clinton and Franklin counties documenting the Great Dannemora Prison Break, I kept thinking that I had been swallowed whole by a tabloid news story, or … [Read more...] about Escape from Dannemora
Anthology
Heroes of the High Peaks
Book Review By PHILIP TERRIE From north to south, from east to west, the Adirondack Park is a spectacular place. We have vast expanses of intact forest, unpolluted lakes, and crystalline rivers with roiling whitewater. Everywhere you look, there’s … [Read more...] about Heroes of the High Peaks
Adirondack Reflections & North Country Reflections
Essays on how we live. People often visit the Adirondacks because of what it is not. It is not crowded. It is not loud. And it is not full of big-box chain stores. But people choose to make the Adirondacks their home because of what this place is. … [Read more...] about Adirondack Reflections & North Country Reflections
Peak Experiences
Peak Experiences: Danger, Death, & Daring in the Mountains of the Northeast is a diverse collection of writings about difficult climbs, near catastrophes, and the occasional death in the mountains from the Catskills to Mount Katahdin. Edited by … [Read more...] about Peak Experiences
No Place I’d Rather Be: Wit and Wisdom from Adirondack Lean-to Journals
PROBABLY THE MOST interesting fact in No Place I’d Rather Be: Wit and Wisdom from Adirondack Lean-to Journals is buried in the back under Forest Preserve camping regulations. First among the state’s five rules for the backcountry log structures is … [Read more...] about No Place I’d Rather Be: Wit and Wisdom from Adirondack Lean-to Journals
Adirondack Peak Experiences
ADIRONDACK PEAK Experiences: Mountaineering Adventures, Misadventures and the Pursuit of “The 46” contains eighty-six essays and one poem inspired by wilderness outings, mostly in the High Peaks. It also contains brief histories of the Adirondack … [Read more...] about Adirondack Peak Experiences