By PHIL BROWN When Laura and Guy Waterman began researching and writing a history of hiking in the Northeast in 1979, they figured the project would take three years. Ten years later, the Appalachian Mountain Club released โForest and Crag: A … [Read more...] about A look at the 30th-anniversary edition of ‘Forest and Crag’
History & Culture
Adirondack Experience digitizes maps spanning hundreds of years
By BRANDON LOOMIS An 1884 map of the Adirondacks showered personal attributes like โSobrietyโ and โIndustryโ and โPerseveranceโ on Herkimer County. At Camp No. 7 near the Boreas River, decades later in 1942-43, loggers either cut … [Read more...] about Adirondack Experience digitizes maps spanning hundreds of years
Rebirth of a fire tower
Thanks to volunteers, Stillwater Mountainโs 47-foot edifice is open to the public again. By JOHN PITARRESI Cathy Percy stands in the cabin of the Stillwater Mountain Fire Tower. She and her visitors are forty-seven feet above the footings … [Read more...] about Rebirth of a fire tower
From the Archives: An Interview with George Canon
(Former Explorer Publisher Dick Beamishย interviewed longtime Newcomb supervisor George Canon for the November/December 2007 issue. Canon died Sunday, June 18, at the age of 77.) Tucked away in the woods on the south side of the High Peaks, … [Read more...] about From the Archives: An Interview with George Canon
Dannemora escape story reads like fiction
Book Review by Brian Mann In the summer of 2015, while driving my beat-up Toyota truck through the back roads of northern Clinton and Franklin counties documenting the Great Dannemora Prison Break, I kept thinking that I had been swallowed whole … [Read more...] about Dannemora escape story reads like fiction
Biking the Barns in the Champlain Valley
Cyclists eat, exercise well on Bike the Barns tour through the Champlain Valley By Alan Wechsler Photos by Nancie Battaglia The Champlain Valley sometimes seems like a forgotten part of the Adirondack Park. Instead of big mountains and … [Read more...] about Biking the Barns in the Champlain Valley