Spruce Mountain
Looking north, we see nothing but hills and trees and clouds and blue sky for 60 miles. The High Peaks outline the distant horizon. We’re trying to make out the slides on Gothics.
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Adirondacks to Maine
Imagine you put in your canoe along the Moose River at Old Forge, paddle through the Fulton Chain of Lakes in a northeasterly direction, and you just keep going and going and going . . .
Silver Lake Mountain
As you drive away from Whiteface Mountain, heading north on Bonnie View Road, you get the feeling you’re leaving the High Peaks region behind. Make a left onto Silver Lake Road and head west, winding uphill. As you approach Taylor Pond, the rocky spine of a long mountain looms on the right.
Dunham Bay Marsh
Marsh madness By Mark Bowie What intrigued me most about the 1965 aerial photograph by Adirondack photographer Richard Dean was the foreground: a wildly vibrating, curvaceous channel, which led my eye toward a tiny, tear-shaped bay—Dunham—in a large lake sprawling obliquely into the distance. Here, in the southeastern corner of the Adirondack Park, as part…
Short hikes for the road
By Phil Brown We had been driving for nearly two hours when Martha, my 13-year-old daughter, started complaining. “How much farther?” she wanted to know. “I’m bored.” Fortunately, we were approaching Cathedral Pines, a stand of giant white pines just off Route 28 between Inlet and Raquette Lake. I pulled off at the trailhead, and…
Cycling through historic valley
Great Sacandaga Lake is only slightly smaller than Lake George, which is the largest water wholly within the Adirondack Park, but it doesn't get nearly as much respect. By Phil Brown
Merriam Lake
‘The worst lake in the Adirondacks’ A family bushwacks to Merriam Lake to discover the truth By Lauren Otis We walk single file along the soft forest floor through the dappled sunlight. Cady, my 12-year old daughter, leads the way followed by my 8-year old son, Oberon. I bring up the rear. We crest a…
Paddling the Fish Creek circuit
An ode to pond hopping By Akum Norder I don’t get to the woods much. I feel sheepish admitting this fact, especially in an Adirondack newspaper. I rarely camp, rarely even go hiking. I’ve always been more comfortable with a city’s structure, noise, and people sheltering me: I can pretend I know where the edges…
Indian Lake islands
This island is your island By Mark Bowie On an autumn evening tagged with the first freeze warning of the season, I pitched my tent on campsite No. 2, Kirpens Island, Indian lake. My neighbors had introduced themselves on the outbound paddle: three seagulls and a family of common mergansers. I would be the only…
Snowy Mountain
Almost a High Peak By Rick Karlin At 3,899 feet, Snowy Mountain dominates the west side of Indian Lake. It is one of the tallest mountains outside the High Peaks and poses as tough a challenge and offers as big a reward as many of the Park’s loftiest summits. Toward the end of 3.9-mile climb,…