Champlain Valley super for cycling
June 1, 2001
It was a day of perfect late-summer colors: blue sky, green grass, gold-tinged leaves and fluorescent purple shirts. Well, not all of them were wearing purple shirts. By Phil Brown
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June 1, 2001
It was a day of perfect late-summer colors: blue sky, green grass, gold-tinged leaves and fluorescent purple shirts. Well, not all of them were wearing purple shirts. By Phil Brown
May 1, 2001
Looking for a place to paddle? We asked five experienced canoeists to recommend a favorite trip in the Adirondacks. All of these waters are easily accessible. All are flat-water paddles, but beware that the wind can kick up whitecaps on Lake George and Long Lake.
March 1, 2001
If you’re looking for a challenging backcountry ski, you might want to go to Owl Head Lookout in the Giant Mountain Wilderness. It’s an ideal trip for late winter, because the trail needs 1½ to 2 feet of snow to be skiable. By Phil Brown
March 1, 2001
The Peavine Swamp Ski Trail is a long ways from the High Peaks. When I visited the trail one Sunday in mid-January, in the midst of a snowy winter, I had it all to myself. Judging by the scarcity of names in the trailhead register, solitude is the norm here. By Phil Brown
July 1, 2000
The Black River Wild Forest encompasses more than 121,000 acres, but it has just one trail leading to a summit—Woodhull Mountain.
March 1, 2000
The Dial-Nippletop loop overlooking the Ausable Lakes valley has always been one of the most spectacular—albeit arduous—day hikes in the Adirondacks, but now it’s even better, thanks to a fire that raged out of control for more than a week last September.
March 1, 2000
When I decided to move to Saranac Lake last year, a friend joked, “Yeah, Saranac Lake is a great place to live—for two months of the year.” He meant summer. I saw the humor, but I didn’t agree. Every season in the Adirondacks has something to recommend it. Spring has its wildflowers; fall has its foliage, and winter has its digit-numbing cold.
August 1, 1999
Are you wondering if there’s a place where you can go with your mountain bike, your tandem touring kayak, your trout rod and hiking boots, and use them all on the same day without moving your camp? By Peter Kick
March 1, 1999
Olavi Hirvonen, a native of Finland and former U. S. Olympic skier, knew what he wanted — and in 1978 his search drew him to the beauty and deep snow of the southern Adiron-dack forest.
March 1, 1999
When you’re hiking by yourself in late December and you know you’re pushing daylight, you tend to look at your watch a lot. By Alan Wechsler