Seven Carries, 7th heaven
March 1, 2012
Doing the Seven Carries is a great adventure no matter what the season. Photos and text by Nancie Battaglia.
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March 1, 2012
Doing the Seven Carries is a great adventure no matter what the season. Photos and text by Nancie Battaglia.
January 1, 2012
When I was a novice backcountry skier, I once climbed to Klondike Notch, the pass between Howard and Yard mountains in the High Peaks Wilderness...By Phil Brown
March 1, 2011
Last summer I canoed across Round Lake and took a walk along the path that parallels the outlet. After a while, I saw a homemade sign that read “Round Lake Ski Trail.” Since I’m a backcountry skier, I made a vow to return. By Phil Brown
March 1, 2011
In the first few days of February, the Adirondacks got about fifteen inches of snow, prompting the state to issue an avalanche warning. By Phil Brown
March 1, 2011
I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I lived in the Adirondacks for close to fifteen years without owning a pair of snowshoes. By Susan Bibeau
January 1, 2011
Is it possible to hike to the top of a mountain without climbing? I started to ask myself that question while trying out the new trail on Coney Mountain south of Tupper Lake. By Phil Brown
January 1, 2011
We were all happy to be on our first backcountry ski trip of the season, but none of us was as excited as Ella. By Phil Brown
November 1, 2010
When my wife, Andrea, and I moved to Plattsburgh, I was overjoyed at the thought of having so many mountains to climb, but I didn’t realize that most of them were at least an hour’s drive away. By Nick Chowske
November 1, 2010
The trail reaching into the Siamese Ponds Wilderness from near Thirteenth Lake can be a bustling, merry place on a good weekend in ski season. By Tom Woodman
November 1, 2010
Perhaps you’ve heard of Richard Louv’s best-selling book Last Child in the Woods, in which he laments that modern kids grow up cut off from the natural world. By Phil Brown