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Spectacle Pond with Desolate Hill in the background.

Making a Spectacle in Schroon

By Tim Rowland

Spectacle Pond, a jaunt that follows Spectacle Brook outside of Schroon Lake, makes for great mud season hike

The Adirondack Garden Club does some fossils hunting after planting Crown Point beds on Love Your Park day.

Low-elevation outings perfect for spring adventures

By Mike Lynch

Mud season hiking: Stay safe and go gradual on these low-altitude trails

Debar Mountain from Baldface summit.

Looking down at Debar Pond

By Tim Rowland

Baldface Mountain gets you to the epicenter of the northern Adirondacks

View from Lincoln Hill Cliffs

A ragged, yet rewarding jaunt in Jay

By Tim Rowland

Lincoln Hill Road provides a seldom-trekked adventure

view from terzian woodlot trail of lake george

Terzian Woodlot: A cool hike with a cooler name

By Tim Rowland

Finding the trail is the hardest part of this outing on the northern end of Lake George

kane mountain fire tower sunset

A mountain with Kane-do spirit

By Lisa Ballard

A short jaunt with a fire tower outside Caroga Lake, and the hardest part is getting there

Nature Conservancy, state reach Follensby compromise

By Gwendolyn Craig

Pristine acreage in Adirondacks will be opening for limited research, public use

View to the south from Deerfield summit.

From Poke-O to Deerfield

By Tim Rowland

A low-peaks bushwack on 2020 Open Space Institute land acquisition in Champlain Valley

A 400-mile trek for nature

By Mike Lynch

Adirondack to Algonquin hiker reflects on summer journey

great corner monument

Colvin’s Great Corner, revisited

By William Hill

Retracing a trek to a historic marker on St. Lawrence, Herkimer county lines

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