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mary lamb

‘Alpine Mary’ Lamb: A summit steward and 46’er many times over

By Tracy Ormsbee

When she’s not volunteering as a summit steward, Mary Lamb is doing trail work with the ADK46ers or answering questions, reading hiker accounts and looking at the photos of aspiring 46ers as an official correspondent for the program.

dan stec

NYS Sen. Dan Stec: ‘The hiking senator’

By Gwendolyn Craig

A conversation with the newly elected senator for a big part of the Adirondacks: "I'm all over the mountains."

Hornbeck Boats

Ripple Effect

By Tim Rowland

Boatbuilder Peter Hornbeck was a Renaissance man whose light canoes and weighty legacy flow through Adirondack Park lore.

APA board member Chad Dawson

Former APA board member Chad Dawson joins Adirondack Wild board

By Gwendolyn Craig

Chad Dawson, who resigned from the APA board last year, has a new role with Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve.

Fusion

Fusion owner infuses a taste of home into deli offerings

By Amy Scattergood

Every Thursday, Pragma Prajapati turns her Saranac Lake convenience store kitchen into a tiny pop-up Indian restaurant.

Happy Baskets

Sharing happiness, one basket at a time

By Jamie Organski

Old Forge resident uses her talents creating made-to-order gift baskets designed to spread joy during the pandemic

megan phillips picked for road salt task force

Cuomo advisor takes post at Adirondack Council

By Gwendolyn Craig

Cuomo's senior policy advisor for energy and the environment will be the Adirondack Council's vice president for conservation.

Hornbeck

Farewell to an Adirondack legend

By Adirondack Explorer

To know Pete Hornbeck was to love him, while appreciating his kindness, humor, generosity, quick wit, creativity and vast knowledge of all things Adirondack.

Brandon Wiltse

Brendan Wiltse: Champion for wilderness, known for motivating young activists

By Tracy Ormsbee

As a summit guide on Poke-O-Moonshine in college and later a summit steward for the Adirondack Mountain Club and then manager of John’s Brook Lodge for two and a half years while in grad school to become a scientist, Brandon Wiltse developed a real love of wilderness.

Mirthful messages

By Gillian Scott

The Foot Stuff outdoors podcast, created by four friends devoted to recreation and preservation, offers adventure, antics and activism in every episode.

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