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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
Evan Nate liked this outing By Phil Brown I drag my 15-year-old son Nate on a lot of outings. Sometimes he enjoys them; sometimes he’s not the most enthusiastic companion. A typical prelude to an adventure goes like this: “Hey, Nate, you wanna climb a mountain today?” “Hmmm. How many miles is it?” I mention…
A small wilderness offers big rewards By Phil Brown It’s small, but wild. After a few miles of walking along a little-used path, pushing aside brush, stepping over fallen trees, you get the sense that you are a long way from civilization. Welcome to the Hoffman Notch Wilderness. The best way to see this neglected…
When I informed my father recently that I was going to hike Buck Mountain, his initial reaction was almost expected. He thought I’d gone crazy. By Ken Thurman
Avalanches pave paths to summits
The French called it Riviere au Sable, or “River of Sand.” If you happen to be fly fishing among the boulders in Wil-mington Notch, you might be puzzled by the name, but not if you’re paddling about the Ausable Delta on Lake Champlain.
The Adirondack Park boasts three Owls Head Mountains with hiking trails—near the hamlets of Keene, Long Lake and Owls Head. The last peak, lying on the northern edge of the Park, is the least well-known, but for people who live or vacation in the vicinity it has been a favorite destination for years.
Forget Edison, DaVinci and all those other folks. The true genius of the ages was the bloke who sat down one fine day and invented the vacation. By Mike Jarboe
The Black River Wild Forest encompasses more than 121,000 acres, but it has just one trail leading to a summit—Woodhull Mountain.
He kept pestering me with the same old question: “It's not whitewater, right?”