Rattlesnake Mountain
When my wife, Andrea, and I moved to Plattsburgh, I was overjoyed at the thought of having so many mountains to climb, but I didn’t realize that most of them were at least an hour’s drive away. By Nick Chowske
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Eagle Slide
Perhaps you’ve heard of Richard Louv’s best-selling book Last Child in the Woods, in which he laments that modern kids grow up cut off from the natural world. By Phil Brown
Trailhead mystery solved
A few years ago I learned in reading the Explorer of a short hike that runs from Uncas Road to Eighth Lake near Inlet. I have hiked this many times, but recently to my surprise I found a tree lying across the parking area with a no-trespassing sign and a no-parking sign on the other…
Mountain memories to treasure
Almost every page of the July/August issue brought back beautiful memories of my homeland. Newcomb caught my eye in the “Ghost cats of the Adirondacks” as this is my hometown. I do believe a few cougars are out there as the habitat is perfect in so many remote areas. Having seen as well as heard…
Who releases exotic cats?
I just read your column on the phantom cougars of the Adirondacks [July/August 2010]. Almost every year I see a similar article, and invariably human sightings are blown off as misidentifications or purely imagination. Three or four years ago in May I was headed to Lake Placid for our first hike of the year. Somewhere…
Natural beauty is economic asset
In response to your article on Fred Monroe of the Local Government Review Board (“Going against the green,” July/August): People like him are stuck in the 1950s. Does he think that any tourist is going to visit the Adirondacks and spend thousands of dollars to watch people slaughtering trees, digging mines, and letting the rich…
Deafening rally spoils weekend
I suppose, since the “Thunder in Old Forge” motorcycle festival must be a big moneymaker for the village, my comments will fall on deaf ears, but I have to vent! We have a camp on Raquette Lake, and there must have been hundreds of very loud cycles going by there in a nearly constant stream…
Ausable Chasm
For the first time ever this year, whitewater paddlers have enjoyed the right to plunge through the Ausable Chasm in the northeastern Adirondacks, testing their skills against waterfalls and rapids that had been off-limits. By Brian Mann
Blue Ledge
It’s a glorious Saturday morning when we head out to see Blue Ledge, a three-hundred-foot marble cliff in the Hudson Gorge that is expected to be added to the public Forest Preserve in the not-too-distant future. By Winnie Yu
Bouldering at Nine Corners
What goes up must come down. But not always easily. Take Tower of Power, a spicy, twenty-five-foot route at the Nine Corners bouldering ground in the southern Adirondacks. By Alan Wechsler