Mountaineer Celebrates Return of Ski Season
By Phil Brown
The Mountaineer will show the backcountry-ski film Valhalla at at Keene Arts in Keene on Saturday, December 7th,at 7 p.m. This event is BYOB. Tickets are $10 at the door.
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Essex Chain Lakes
The opening of the Essex Chain Lakes attracts a flock of paddlers on a colorful autumn day. By Phil Brown
Park Perspectives: Heads in the clouds
It’s hard to imagine a cooler-sounding job description than cloud collecting. This is not to be confused with wool gathering or stargazing. It’s real work, and Paul Casson and Rich Brandt have it down to a science. In fact it is a science, and one that has made important contributions toward understanding such environmental issues…
DEC Closes Trail In High Peaks Wilderness
By Phil Brown
Editor’s note: Since this post was written, the bridge and trail have been opened. I hope you’re not planning to climb Mount Adams this weekend. The state Department of Environmental Conservation has closed the trail that offers the easiest access to the 3,520-foot summit in the High Peaks Wilderness. DEC spokesman David Winchell said the…
Photographing the Adirondacks: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them
Camera-ready scenery. IF YOU’RE A PHOTOGRAPHER looking for a shooter to emulate, Carl Heilman II is a fine choice. After all, Heilman has been creating iconic Adirondack images for decades, and he knows the hidden (and not-so-hidden) parts of the Adirondack Park as well as anybody. In his new book, Photographing the Adirondacks: Where to…
E-Book: Photographing the Adirondacks: Fall in the High Peaks Region
A photo app for autumn. You never know just how good leaf-peeping season will be. That’s OK—you can always get a dose of spectacular color in Chris Tennant and Adam Baker’s new e-book, Photographing the Adirondacks: Fall in the High Peaks Region. The 104-page PDF is available as a $7 download from www.adkbook.com. Unlike Carl…
A Visitor’s Guide to Camp Santanoni
Great Guide to a Great Camp. JUST NORTH of Newcomb sits one of the Adirondack Park’s cultural treasures: Camp Santanoni. Designed by architect Robert H. Robertson in 1892 for Albany banker Robert Pruyn, Camp Santanoni manifests all the marvelous eclecticism and attention to detail that make the Adirondack Great Camp one of our region’s chief…
Adirondack Reflections & North Country Reflections
Essays on how we live. People often visit the Adirondacks because of what it is not. It is not crowded. It is not loud. And it is not full of big-box chain stores. But people choose to make the Adirondacks their home because of what this place is. It is beautiful. It has a deeply…
Growing Up in Lake Placid
LAKE PLACID isn’t like other towns. What other place has hosted two Winter Olympics, after all? But in other ways, it’s pretty much the same: people are born and die, try to make a living through good times and bad, laugh, and cry. Native daughter Barbara Tyrell Kelly captures this dichotomy—the world-famous resort versus the…
A Taste Of The Climbing Bum’s Life
By Phil Brown
For young climbers, the road trip is a rite of passage. Eschewing such mundane concerns as food and work, they cross the country to visit revered climbing locales such as the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, Red Rocks in Nevada, and Joshua Tree and Yosemite in California. I was never…