Climbing Wallface
I’m lying in bed at 4:45 a.m. The alarm hasn’t gone off yet, but I won’t be going back to sleep. I’m climbing Wallface today. By Phil Brown
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OK Slip Falls ski
We’re taking a ski trip into the future, following old woods roads and trails to the brink of a gorge that overlooks OK Slip Falls, one of the biggest cataracts in the Adirondack Park. By Phil Brown
Warming up to Van Ho
It was minus 10 degrees when we left Saranac Lake one December morning to hike Mount Van Hoevenberg. As we pulled out of the driveway, it was still freezing inside the car. By Anna Rehm
Trails and tales at Camp Santanoni
How does one account for the coincidence that on a relatively easy ski in good conditions, two members of our party have their boots come apart?
Algonquin and Wright
It's a balmy day in mid-April, and we're following Ron Konowitz on the trail to Algonquin Peak, the Adirondacks' second-highest summit. The snow has been melting for days, exposing roots and rocks and reopening streams, but we're on skis. By Phil Brown
Lyon Mountain
The tap, tap, tapping that sounded every few minutes as we made a wintry ascent of Lyon Mountain wasn't coming from woodpeckers.
Siamese Pond Wilderness
There are times when you want the mountains to yourself, with no trace of your fellow human beings. And there are times, by God, that you hope there have been cross-country skiers in front of you.
4 snowshoe delights
Here are four of my favorite winter hikes, chosen from locations around the Adirondack Park.
Cat and Thomas Mountains
As a photographer, Carl Heilman has captured hundreds of great views in the Adirondacks.
A Lyon in winter
The tap, tap, tapping that sounded every few minutes as we made a wintry ascent of Lyon Mountain wasn’t coming from woodpeckers.