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A look at the 30th-anniversary edition of ‘Forest and Crag’

By Phil Brown

When Laura and Guy Waterman began researching and writing a history of hiking in the Northeast in 1979, they figured the project would take three years. Ten years later, the Appalachian Mountain Club released “Forest and Crag: A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains.”

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Adirondack Experience digitizes maps spanning hundreds of years

By Brandon Loomis

The Adirondack Experience is digitizing 1,308 of the maps in its collection, dating back to 1703, thanks to a $60,500 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

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Tupper Lake hotel plan gathers funds to proceed

By Contributing Writer

The proposed three-story, 45-room hotel is to be built on a largely vacant acre of land at the corner of Park and Mill Streets.

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Speed limit declines for holiday weekend

By Ben Westcott

Columbus Day weekend, which coincides with Canadian Thanksgiving and fall foliage season, traditionally sees a lot of traffic.

AdkAction program boosts access to locally grown produce

By Melissa Hart

AdkAction has become an approved vendor through the Double Up Food Bucks program. A national initiative administered in New York State by the Buffalo-based Field and Fork Network, the program helps kick in an extra incentive for people receiving food assistance, by giving them a financial boost when they buy local.

Adirondack summer camps leave lasting impressions

By Janet Reynolds

Campers by the thousands turn into avid former campers, many of whom in turn become Adirondacks fans. As adults, these people in turn spend untold vacation dollars in the Adirondacks, while others buy summer homes or decide to live in the region full-time.

Continuing the camping tradition

By Melissa Hart

Camping was a big part of my childhood in the 1980s, growing up outside of Syracuse. My parents towed our family’s pop-up camper across New York State, spending time in the Adirondacks, along the St. Lawrence River and out to Niagara Falls.

Women at work on the trails

By Mike Lynch

A photo gallery of the Adirondack Mountain Club's professional trail crew while they worked on Mount Colden.

Fowler

Memorial planned for Ed Fowler, conservation leader

By Sara Ruberg

He served on the boards of groups that preserved thousands of acres in the park.

Ironman Lake Placid athlete goes to extremes in fighting disease

By James Odato

As he trains for his second Ironman Lake Placid this summer, Eric Kreckel knows he is not a typical triathlete.

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