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Wakely Mountain

By Adirondack Explorer

Wakely Mountain has much in common with Blue Mountain. By Phil Brown.

Jordan lives up to mystique

By Adirondack Explorer

In his classic guidebook Adirondack Canoe Waters: North Flow, Paul Jamieson describes the Jordan River as a mysterious stream flowing through a wild land “where spruce-fir swamps are as hauntingly primitive and boreal as anything to be found in the Adirondacks today.”

Porter Mountain

By Adirondack Explorer

A hike on the quiet side By Phil Brown Last September I did a solo end-to-end hike. The start and finish were several miles apart, and I had only one car. I’ve bicycled from one trailhead to the other in similar circumstances, but in this case, I neither cycled nor walked between trailheads. I know…

Lens Lake

By Adirondack Explorer

As you drive to Lens Lake, you get the feeling you are retreating from civilization. By Robin Ambrosino

Quebec Brook

By Adirondack Explorer

It’s midweek, a gorgeous summer day, and I’m alone with my canoe on Quebec Brook. By Brian Mann

Blue Mountain Lake to Raquette Lake

By Adirondack Explorer

Exploring 3 lakes and a river By Christopher Angus The village of Blue Mountain Lake greets us in typically sleepy hamlet fashion. The big hotels of a hundred years ago are long gone. Most of the action today is near the top of the hill where the Adirondack Museum sits in regal splendor. But down…

Raquette River

By Adirondack Explorer

It’s not often that you can paddle through the woods in a canoe, but we were looking forward to just such a magical adventure in mid-April, when the snowmelt and spring rains usually inundate the silver-maple floodplains along the Stony Creek Ponds outlet and the Raquette River. By Phil Brown

Hurricane Crag

By Adirondack Explorer

As Colin Loher leads the way up through thick birch and maple, his climbing gear chimes with each step. By Brian Mann

Boreal Life Trail

By Adirondack Explorer

Every grizzled Adirondack old-timer in wool plaid and every nouveau-mountaineer in Gore-Tex who visits the new Boreal Life Trail at the Paul Smiths Visitor Interpretive Center is sure to come away with one clear impression: There’s nothing boring about the boreal life along this 1.1-mile walk. By Edward Kanze

Kanoeing the Kunjamuk

By Adirondack Explorer

If you’ve ever driven north on Route 30 through Speculator, you may have passed a gem of a river without realizing it. By Robin Ambrosino

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