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It’s mid-November in Saranac Lake, and I’m gazing wistfully out the office window at the first substantial snowfall of the season. The phone rings: It’s my friend Brian Mann, wondering if I want to go skiing on the Whiteface highway.
A mother, daughter, father and son burst out of the woods, beaming. We take this as a good sign.
I considered, for a time, not climbing Street and Nye. I’d heard rumors of others who had done the same—not climbed them. Famous Adirondack guides and writers. What was the point of climbing them anyway? Just to get a Forty-Sixer patch?
I’m a bit late hitting the trail, and that has me worried. I’m supposed to meet my friend Steve at the Colvin Brook lean-to, and I have more than 40 miles to go. Fortunately, our scheduled rendezvous—at noon on Monday—is three days away.
Mark Bowie shares his favorite flatwater trips By Mark Bowie Fall on flatwater in the Adirondacks: There’s no place I’d rather be than on a wild pond or stream reflecting the reds, yellows and oranges of the season. Of course, there are enough waterways in the Adirondacks to fill a lifetime of exploration, but here…
It’s a beautiful summer day on top of Cook Mountain. The sky is a vivid blue, and the sun is blazing bright.
Canoeists explore latest addition to Forest Preserve By Phil Brown Clark Lubbs is a nature photographer who moved to the Adirondacks so he could be near wilderness. The twist is that he came here from Colorado. “If you want to see real wilderness, you have to move east,” he says, contradicting conventional wisdom. Unlike federal…
Northwest passages By Bill Ingersoll The northwestern Adirondacks has long been one of my favorite places to explore. It’s a region of secluded ponds, winding eskers, tannin-stained streams and ancient forests. The blowdown from a 1995 windstorm is an impressive demonstration of how natural forces prevail in truly wild areas. When I first teamed up…
What goes up must come down, but as we discovered on a delightful ski tour around Blue Mountain this winter, what comes down doesn’t have to go up.
Herewith some impressions, recalled fondly and with anticipation on a mid-winter day, of a three-season canoe and kayak trip that starts at Coreys and ends at the state landing a few miles east of Tupper Lake. By Dick Beamish