Peachy Keene ski trips
January 1, 2007
I had been to Lost Pond on the Nun-da-ga-o Ridge on summer hikes several times, but I never visited it in winter until two years ago on skis. What a lovely place mantled in snow!
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January 1, 2007
I had been to Lost Pond on the Nun-da-ga-o Ridge on summer hikes several times, but I never visited it in winter until two years ago on skis. What a lovely place mantled in snow!
November 1, 2006
Snowshoes are an integral part of the winter landscape in the Adirondacks, almost certainly dating back to when the first humans began to explore these snowy mountains on foot.
March 1, 2006
My husband proposed to me in the winter, wearing these same snowshoes. That hike ended in a toe-gripping scrabble up the icy backside of Bontique in the Schwangunks.
March 1, 2006
January had been depressing. We had more thaws than snowfalls. At the end of the month, we had less than six inches of snow in the woods around Saranac Lake.
January 1, 2006
Backcountry skiers in the northern Adirondacks spent most of last winter waiting for the big snowstorm that didn’t show up. So when Lake George got hit by a nor’easter in late January, I decided to go to the snow.
January 1, 2006
Last winter, my friends and I stumbled across one of the many wonderful secrets hidden in the western Adirondacks.
November 1, 2005
5:45: Wake up. It’s late winter. I’m in my friends Jack and Mary Jean Burke’s house on Keese Mill Road in Paul Smiths.
March 1, 2005
We couldn’t have asked for a more gorgeous day. Sunny, mild, hardly a breeze. “We don’t deserve this,” Brian remarked as we glided through the unbroken snow.
March 1, 2005
Think of Lyon Mountain as the High Peak of the North. It stands alone in the northeastern corner of the Adirondack Park, offering superb views of Chazy Lake, the Champlain Valley, the Green Mountains ... By Phil Brown
January 1, 2005
It’s the end of February, but I’m skiing in a T-shirt. The sun blazes out of a bluebird Adirondack sky. The thermometer reads 58 degrees in the Sharp Bridge State Campground parking lot. Hard to believe that two weeks ago I needed four layers and a down vest to fend off the cold.