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Adirondack Explorer stories of the year: No: 3

By Tracy Ormsbee

December 31, 2018

Explore More: forest rangers, rescues, skiing

missing whiteface skier — Major John Tibbitts says a skier cannot recall what happened after he vanished from Whiteface Mountain. Photo by Mike Lynch.

As we head into a new year, the Adirondack Explorer looks back at the most popular online stories of 2018.

A good mystery keeps people reading … and this one was never really solved. Topping the Explorer’s most-read stories this year was the skier who mysteriously went missing at Whiteface Mountain in early February. Every follow-up was read with interest as search parties looked for the skier. The skier turned up a week later in Sacramento, Calif., driven there by a truck driver. Little more is known to date.

Read when the missing skier was found alive

Still a mystery

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Tracy Ormsbee

Tracy Ormsbee is publisher of the Adirondack Explorer. When she’s not working – and it’s not black fly season – you can find her outdoors hiking, running, paddle boarding or reading a book on an Adirondack chair somewhere.

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