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Essex Farm

Adirondack farmer-author discusses new memoir, and Essex Farm

By Adirondack Explorer

Kristin Kimball owns and runs Essex Farm, the Champlain Valley, with her husband Mark. Simon & Schuster recently published her second memoir about her family’s life on the farm, “Good Husbandry,” a sequel to her 2010 bestseller, “The Dirty Life.”

‘Synonymous with ADK’

By Tim Rowland

Neil Woodworth, who is stepping down as the Adirondack Mountain Club's executive director at the end of 2019, helped shepherd through a transformational era in the Adirondack narrative.

A will to build adventures

By Tracy Ormsbee

Go ahead, tell Sam Eddy something can’t be done—hardening 800 feet of trail in one day; taking apart a bridge, moving and rebuilding it in one day; hiking from Wanakena to Wolf Pond after dark—and the challenge is on. Just about every story Eddy tells begins with someone saying the task he’s proposing is impossible. He thrives on proving it isn’t.

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.

Open Space Institute has a plan to disperse High Peaks crowds

By Sara Ruberg

The plan is to help disperse High Peaks crowds and preserve trails and natural resources by providing an alternative entry to the popular mountains, OSI president and CEO Kim Elliman said.

Keeseville Pharmacy owner talks about the origins of the Farmacy

By Mike Lynch

Keeseville Pharmacy owner Dan Bosley talks about how his partnership with ADK Action has allowed him to sell food, filling a need in the local community.

Gary Randorf

Founding Adirondack Council director dies

By James Odato

Tributes to Gary Randorf on Wednesday focused on his deliberate, modest and agreeable style while advocating for protections to the forest preserve and wilderness that he photographed for decades.

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