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By Mike Lynch
Large summer crowds are a trend that has been well established in recent years, and many hikers are continuing to go to the summits unprepared for such long and remote day trips.
As recreational use increases, especially in popular regions like the High Peaks Wilderness, the Department of Environmental Conservation has contemplated implementing new management tactics to minimize trail overuse, including a permit system.
While many thousands of people hike Adirondack trails in the summertime, the ranks of open-water swimmers are so far just a drop in the backcountry’s bucket. By one estimate, the hard core of adventure swimmers may number as few as 100, but their enthusiasm runs deep and they recruit.
On Monday morning the state captured the large male black bear at Marcy Dam and planned to kill it because of its strong conditioning to human foods.
The High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Group released recommendations for visitor management.
The view from the cliff is fantastic. Ridges of green trees roll away toward the horizon, below the dark shadow of more distant mountains. It’s a four-mile hike to get here, which keeps away most climbers.
It's dry down here, but wet up there
The state's High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Group believes it could have at least short-term recommendations for this summer.
By Tim Rowland
The shuttles will operate 16 hours a day and pass every Route 73 trailhead once every half hour.
Whatever you want to call it -- even if you just call it a lot of people enjoying nature -- the effort to understand and plan for the rising number of people driving to and hiking in the High Peaks dominated discussions among Adirondack Park advocates, municipal officials and resource managers in 2019.