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Cross-country skier on a snowy trail in the woods

Skiing through history on trails around Adirondack Fish Hatchery

By Tom French

Search for fresh snow leads to winter wonderland of untouched trails

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world university games skier

Takeaways from $57M World University Games

By James Odato

Report details funding, employment, housing challenges for the winter sports competition

Hickory Hill

Hickory Ski Center faces deadline to fund ski lifts

By Times Union

Historic, challenging ski hill has been open to uphill skiers but wants to revive lifts

Steve Goldstein, right, helps Phil Brown repair a broken binding near the shore of Siamese Ponds.

Covered for calamity at Siamese Ponds

By Alan Wechsler

A ski trip with spare parts

Light pours into the hardwood meadow along Wood’s Trail at Higley Flow State Park as a man snowshoes on the trail

Feeling the (Higley) Flow

By Tom French

Wood's Trail offers easy backcountry access in St. Lawrence County

Pole, pedal, paddle: Multi-sport charity race coming to Saranac Lake

By Mike Lynch

The Saranac Lake 3P (pole/pedal/paddle) will consist of six legs over nearly 14 miles, including skiing trails at Mount Pisgah and Dewey Mountain.

A group of 12 skaters play over frozen Holcomb Pond near Lake Placid, New York.

Is the future of outdoor skating on thin ice?

By Chloe Bennett

Researchers, ice skaters reflect on changes to popular winter pastimes

Skiers grab new maps that will tell them where checkpoints are located within the forest

The art of orienteering, on skis, in subzero temps

By Tim Rowland

The sport of locating two-dozen checkpoints with the aid of map and compass is known as orienteering, but “It’s a lot more complicated in winter."

Endless forests in the High Peaks Wilderness, viewed from an overlook on the Lost Brook tract. Photo by Tim Rowland

Temperatures to plunge in the Adirondacks this weekend

By Mike Lynch

Dangerously cold weather is forecast to hit the Adirondacks Friday and Saturday

Scene from women's curling

Curling, explained*

By Tim Rowland

This week's Explore More takes you indoors to find out what all the fuss over curling is about

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