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By Phil Brown
Soon after Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, I climbed several slides in the High Peaks that had been created or much enlarged by the storm’s deluge. Some of these have become somewhat popular, such as the so-called Catastrophic Chaos on Saddleback and the slide leading from the Trap Dike to the summit of Mount Colden.…
EMS guide Matt Wiech never tires of taking rock-climbing clients up a historical route on Upper Washbowl Cliff. By Phil Brown
By Phil Brown
Some 250 new and vintage canoes will be on display at the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association’s annual assembly at Paul Smith’s College on Lower St. Regis Lake this week. More than four hundred wooden-canoe aficionados are expected to attend the assembly, which began today and will last through Sunday. The general public is welcome to…
When New York State last year began its historic purchase of sixty-five thousand acres of former Finch, Pruyn lands for the Adirondack Forest Preserve it posed a challenge to itself. How should it classify and manage the land, balancing protection of the natural environment with providing people access to this incomparable resource? The Adirondack Park…
The Department of Environmental Conservation shot a bull moose that was acting strangely near Lake Placid last fall to analyze it. Nothing was found wrong [“DEC defends moose killing,” May/June 2013]. DEC should have tranquilized it, then taken it to a wildlife-rescue facility to study it. What would you think if you took your dog…
By Phil Brown
In an article in the July/August issue of the Adirondack Explorer, I examine the various options for classifying the former Finch, Pruyn lands acquired by the state from the Nature Conservancy. You can read the article here, but it also helps to peruse the table and maps included with the story. That’s what this post is…
Congratulations to Editor Phil Brown for his court victory on behalf of paddlers, which affirms the public’s right to travel over a waterway including Mud Pond, Mud Pond Outlet, and Shingle Shanty Brook in spite of private landowners’ claim they could bar access to the waters [“A victory for paddlers,” May/June 2013]. I assume the…
With regard to the question of whether or not to turn Adirondack railroad tracks into a bike path, I would like to add my views based on recent experience. My wife and I just spent a week bicycling rail trails in Pennsylvania. We went to Pennsylvania because that’s where we found the bike trails we…
When my sons were ages four and eleven, my family drove to Blue Mountain Lake on a warm October day, filled our kayaks with food and gear, and launched our boats. Like hundreds of boaters before us, we planned to spend several days on the lakes and rivers of the most popular long-distance canoe route…
A May/June letter to the editor [“Different route for rail trail”] suggested looking at other abandoned rail right-of-ways that do not have working tracks on them like the old D&H line. I was at White Pine Camp last week and looked at where that right-of-way runs though Gabriels, and it is now a large power-line…