Post-Irene slide guide. Tropical Storm Irene did more than change the face of the High Peaks: it rendered The Adirondack Slide Guide by Drew Haas obsolete. Thankfully, Haas has put out a second edition of the book that includes new slides created … [Read more...] about The Adirondack Slide Guide
Recreation
The Allure of Deep Woods Backpacking the Northville-Placid Trail
AMERICANS like a challenge, and that includes our hiking trails. We’ve got the Appalachian Trail on the East Coast and the Pacific Crest Trail on the West Coast and hikers who walk them end to end. Fortunately there are also shorter through trails to … [Read more...] about The Allure of Deep Woods Backpacking the Northville-Placid Trail
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
Women on Water
Women on Water is a difficult book to categorize. It looks like a guidebook, with a table of contents that lists twenty-five day trips, most of them in the southwestern Adirondacks. Flipping through the book I admired the hand-drawn maps, beautiful … [Read more...] about Women on Water
Adirondacks: A Great Destination
A 5-star travel guide I like to think of myself as fairly knowledgeable about the Adirondacks—not an expert exactly, but I’ve been around for a while. So it was with great relish that I picked up the latest Explorer’s Guides volume on the region … [Read more...] about Adirondacks: A Great Destination
Heaven Up-h’isted-ness! The History of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers
EARLY IN 1838, geologist Ebenezer Emmons, part of a team of scientists assessing New York’s natural resources, submitted a report to the state Assembly. In it he described his fieldwork of the previous summer. Among other things, he had led the first … [Read more...] about Heaven Up-h’isted-ness! The History of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers