
As hiking season approaches, ADK provides updated guidebook
By Mike Lynch
The Adirondack Mountain Club is doubling down on its efforts to educate backcountry users.
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By Mike Lynch
The Adirondack Mountain Club is doubling down on its efforts to educate backcountry users.
By Mike Lynch
Champlain Valley trails offer a different kind of Adirondack experience for hikers.
Five articles that feature snowshoe treks for all skill levels, on trails that are located all over the Adirondacks.
By Mike Lynch
Hikers seek ‘some of the most beautiful experiences in life’
By Mike Lynch
Explorer photographer describes his approach to getting photos on a winter hike up Black Mountain.
By Tim Rowland
Slides are notoriously hard to get to, and as the days shorten, climbing one becomes, for us mere mortals, a sport that’s off the table until spring. One shoulder-season exception is the slide on Wilmington Peak in the Stephenson Range in northern Essex County.
Second edition hiking volume reaches new generations, routes By Leigh Hornbeck Rose Rivezzi and David Trithart were the parents of two young boys when they wrote the first edition of their “Kids on the Trail!” guidebook for hiking with children in the Adirondacks. This summer, they celebrated the arrival of the second edition with their…
Will a burgeoning hiker shuttle industry grow into regular service? When outdoor adventure-seekers prepare for multi-day outings, measuring out food, sorting gear and packing bags, they also have to weigh their transportation options. Unless they plan to travel round-trip and end up back where they started, travelers need to determine how they’ll get back to…
By Melissa Hart
Fall pics taken from around the park Here’s a snapshot of what the holiday weekend was like for hiking, from various spots outside the busy High Peaks Wilderness. Clockwise from top: the view from Baker Mountain in Saranac Lake (by Debra Thuet); from Goodnow Mountain’s fire tower in Newcomb (by Michael Hernandez); looking at Lake…
By Mike Lynch
With what could be a busy Columbus Day weekend for High Peaks hiking fast approaching, we pulled out this timelapse video from a September weekend in 2017 on Cascade Mountain. About 550 hikers visited the summit on this particular day.