5 outings for children
May 1, 2000
If you want your children to enjoy hiking, you need to start them off on the right foot. First, choose hikes they can handle. Don’t march them up Algonquin on their first outing.
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May 1, 2000
If you want your children to enjoy hiking, you need to start them off on the right foot. First, choose hikes they can handle. Don’t march them up Algonquin on their first outing.
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.
March 1, 2000
Action—that’s what we offer,” declares Pat Cunningham of Hudson River Rafting Co. “Within three seconds—bango!—you’re in the rapids.”
December 1, 1999
Where are you heading today?” the ranger wanted to know. “To see the new slide on Mount Colden,” I replied. By Phil Brown
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
May 1, 1999
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
March 1, 1999
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
September 1, 1998
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.