Where are the women?
Women are shaping Adirondack conservation, overcoming challenges, and steadily rising to leadership roles.
Women of the Adirondacks
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Grace Peak: Honoring a hiking legend
Four hikers pay tribute to an Adirondack legend while climbing the peak newly renamed in her honor. By Susan Bibeau Shortly after moving to the Adirondacks in 1996, I climbed Giant Mountain. Not only was it my first High Peak, it was the first time I’d climbed anything higher than the hill in the back yard where I grew up. While…
Women on Water
Women on Water is a joyful exploration of friendship and adventure, as a group of paddlers embraces the beauty of Adirondack waterways.
Adirondack Roots: Stories of Hiking, History and Women
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Sandra Weber’s Adirondack Roots, a compelling collection of essays that brings the region’s past of pioneering women to life.
Anne LaBastille: Remembering the legendary Woodswoman
Anne LaBastille was a larger-than-life figure who tramped across the wild and wooly narrative of the Adirondacks with gusto.
Women without men
A group of lifelong friends and their annual escape to Star Lake—a cherished retreat of laughter and reflection in the Adirondacks.
Women with Altitude
Inspiring stories of female winter 46ers who defy extreme conditions to conquer the High Peaks, experiencing unexpected transformations.
Nehasane Fire Observer
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“One woman’s wild summer” was from the March/April 2003 edition By Neal Burdick One day early in the summer of 1942, Bill Touhey, on duty in the Salmon Lake Mountain fire tower in Whitney Park west of Long Lake, took a phone call from the observer on Mount Electra, not far away in Nehasane Park.…