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IT HAS BEEN SAID that we are all residents of the same country called the past. No place values its past more than Saranac Lake, and Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America: Saranac Lake will be warmly welcomed here. Authored by Neil Surprenant, director of the Joan Weill Adirondack Library at Paul Smith’s College, and…
Gorge trip just ducky Paddlers in inflatable kayaks find thrills and spills in heavy whitewater on the Hudson River. By Phil Brown FROM TIME TO TIME I’ve played with the idea of putting together a list of quintessential Adirondack adventures. It would include, for example, climbing the Trap Dike on Mount Colden, skiing Mount Marcy…
A good day on Goodnow Climb to a fire tower near Newcomb rewards hikers with a breathtaking vista of the High Peaks By Lisa Densmore I GLANCE AT MY WATCH. 11:22 a.m. It feels like 7 a.m. on this early September morning. The first hint of fall is in the invigorating fifty-degree air. Goosebumps cover…
BORN IN MALONE in 1819, William Almon Wheeler spent his early years in relative comfort. That ended precipitously when his father died at the age of thirty-seven, leaving scant resources to his wife and children; William was six months short of his tenth birthday. His determined and indefatigable mother, Eliza, kept her family together, provided…
A veteran ice climber says ascending the frozen cataract is not difficult, but it is risky. By Don Mellor It was suggested to me recently that if God wanted us to climb ice, He wouldn’t have made it so slippery.
Strengthening the APA Ideas for a better Adirondack Park A special publication of the Adirondack Explorer January 2014 The Adirondack Explorer would like to thank the following underwriters of our “Strengthening the APA” project, including the magazine series and the conference: Prospect Hill Foundation Jane Bickford Adam Hochschild Butler Conservation Fund master family fund…
The future of open space Environmentalists and local leaders agree that the privately owned backcountry should be protected—but how? By Phil BROWN Forty years have passed since Governor Nelson Rockefeller, while signing a law regulating development in the Adirondack Park, declared to the reporters and conservationists in the room, “The Adirondacks are preserved forever.” He…
Weak law hurts shorelines Critics say political compromises in the 1970s have led to a degradation of waterfront and water quality in the Adirondacks. By Brian Mann On a gray, rain-swept morning, environmental activist Peter Bauer points to the Lake George shoreline just outside the hamlet of Bolton Landing. From his boat we can see…