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Women of the Adirondacks

By Isabella Susino

March is Women's History Month, and the Adirondack Explorer has long showcased the stories of women making their mark on the Adirondacks.

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former Adirondack Life editor betsy folwell on blue mountain lake

Betsy Folwell, Adirondack essayist and community pillar, dies at 71

By Tim Rowland

Blue Mountain Lake resident and former Adirondack Life editor remembered for her impact on others and love of the Adirondacks

Redefining tradition: The growing ranks of women who hunt

By David Escobar

Meet some of the people changing the face of hunting

Baking bread in the Saskatchewan wilderness

By Gwendolyn Craig

How a forager and living history expert from the Adirondacks survived in the Canadian wilderness, "Alone."

Women 46ers

A woman’s place is on the trail

By Betsy Kepes

The 46ers give back to the Adirondack Park community through women-only trail work weekends.

46ers women’s trail work weekend

By Mike Lynch

Adirondack 46ers trailmaster Mary Lamb and president Laurie Rankin talk about a July trail work weekend for women. The crew repaired three bridges in the Hoffman Notch Wilderness the first day, then visited trails near Elk Lake the next day. (Only the first day is featured in this video. Read the September issue to learn…

‘Finding a Woman’s Place’

By Leigh Hornbeck

Book explores bonds forged at an Adirondack feminist collective during the 70s and early 80s in rural Warren County

black and white photo of women suffragettes

Honoring Inez Milholland

By Adirondack Explorer

A mountain in Lewis, NY was renamed for suffragist Inez Milholland in December 2019. Video by Molly Ormsbee.

Mountain renamed in honor of suffragist

By Adirondack Explorer

Inez Milholland, whose family owned property on the mountain, was a lawyer and a women’s rights activist during the suffrage movement in the early 20th century.

Women at work on the trails

By Mike Lynch

A photo gallery of the Adirondack Mountain Club's professional trail crew while they worked on Mount Colden.

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