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Around the mountain

By Adirondack Explorer

The Saranac River and adjoining lakes create a delightful paddling trip. By DICK BEAMISH It can be a leisurely six-hour trip, starting a block from our office in Saranac Lake village. Or, if you’re a champion paddler and like to make waves, you can churn through this eleven-mile loop in an hour and a half,…

Canoeing the Deer River Flow

By Phil Brown

I had been wanting to paddle the Deer River Flow for some time, so when my friend, Phil Blanchard, came with his family to the Adirondacks for vacation, I suggested we take a trip there. Unfortunately, Phil got ill on the morning of our scheduled outing, so his son, Ben, and I did the trip…

Canoeing the Lower Bog

By Phil Brown

Most people who canoe the Bog River start at the Lower Dam and paddle upstream to Hitchins Pond. From there, they can carry around the Upper Dam to enter Lows Lake. But there is another flatwater trip on the Bog that doesn’t see as much traffic. About a half-mile above the falls,we passed under an…

Paddling a gentle river

By Adirondack Explorer

Lazing along the West Branch of the Sacandaga River. By TOM WOODMAN For the casual and experienced paddler alike, one of the great joys of canoeing in the Adirondacks is to ease your way along a flat, meandering stream through open country. Though maybe not as well known as some northern routes with similar character,…

Testing the legal waters

By Adirondack Explorer

Editor Phil Brown paddles through private land to assess the navigability of Shingle Shanty Brook and connecting waterways. If open to the public, the route would enhance the trip from Little Tupper Lake to Lake Lila. By PHIL BROWN If you love paddling in the Adirondacks, you put up with the portages. You might even…

Paddling scenic Fall Stream

By Phil Brown

A few years ago, the Explorer published a story by Mark Bowie about a canoe trip on Fall Stream, a tributary of Piseco Lake. Mark did the trip with some volunteers from the Adirondack Mountain Club who were investigating the possibility of adding Fall Stream to the state’s Wild, Scenic, and Recreational Rivers System. Mark concluded…

‘Wild Times’ is here

By Phil Brown

We at the Explorer just received copies of our new book, Wild Times, a full-color anthology of 120 hiking and paddling adventures from the past ten years of our newsmagazine. This is news you can use, whether you’re looking to paddle a quiet river, spend time on an uncrowded summit, visit a fire tower, or…

Shingle Shanty update

By Phil Brown

Former DEC official weighs in.

Testing the legal waters

By Phil Brown

Navigation rights and private land

The Lila Traverse

By Phil Brown

10 years on, premier canoe route lacks signs and markers.

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