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Castle Rock

By Adirondack Explorer

Walking through a shady forest dominated by beech trees, John Collins encounters an old friend at a fork in the trail: a 15-foot yellow birch with long roots gripping a boulder like a pitcher preparing to throw a curveball. By Will Nixon

moose river plains bike ride

Mountain biking in the Moose River Plains

By Adirondack Explorer

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

Little Tupper to Lake Lila

By Adirondack Explorer

Sitting around the campfire, Dave Cilley tells of a strange encounter he had on an earlier journey from Little Tupper Lake to Lake Lila, a route only a few hardy paddlers have explored—it goes through backcountry ponds, down narrow streams and along logging roads. By Will Nixon

Follensby Pond

By Adirondack Explorer

Someday, paddlers travelling the Raquette River between Long Lake and Tupper Lake may be able to de-tour to visit Follensby Pond, one of the gems of the Adirondacks.

Massawepie Mire

By Adirondack Explorer

To introduce me to bogs, Mike Brennan drops his day pack on a grassy hummock and pulls off his tan fleece jacket. Dressed in green shorts, unlike the rest of us on this cool day, he drops to his knees and plunges his arm into the slender gap of dark water between the bright green lips of sphagnum moss. By Will Nixon

Lapland Lake Cross-Country Ski Center

By Adirondack Explorer

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.

Champlain Valley mountain hopping

By Adirondack Explorer

Walking through tall goldenrods on Trembleau Mountain, I follow Gary Randorf’s head bobbing above the plants in a baseball cap the color of a yellow highlighter that I couldn’t possibly miss. An inveterate bushwhacker, Randorf climbed three small mountains the previous day without a map and compass, simply following the angle of the sun for his directions. By Will Nixon

Big Slide via the Brothers

By Adirondack Explorer

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

Valcour Island Adventure

By Adirondack Explorer

While the lakes and rivers of the Adirondacks have spawned a rich tradition of canoeing, rowing and river kayaking, it’s easy to forget that the Adirondack Park boundary runs down the middle of Lake Champlain—the nation’s largest lake after the five Great Ones, and a newly emerging mecca for sea-kayaking.

Grass River

By Adirondack Explorer

One river on Champion lands makes the serious paddler’s heart beat like no other: the South Branch of the Grass.

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