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Avalanche Safety 101
Social media images show you the good stuff. That arcing spray of white powder against a bluebird sky, fronting a glimmer of color, offering assura...
Photographer Pamela Underhill Karaz Captures the Wonders of Wildlife
Just after Christmas some years ago, a coyote emerged from a stand of evergreens on Pamela Underhill Karaz’s property near Barneveld. Wildlife sigh...
Garnet Hill Lodge: North River’s Beloved Rustic Resort
"Homey" is how Ana Walker describes Garnet Hill Lodge, in North River, where she’s the front desk clerk. “People feel comfortable enough to come do...
Nature & Environment
To the Rescue
North Country weather has always been a wild ride of ups and downs, and climate change hasn’t made it any easier to predict—just ask the loons.
Road Work
It is snowing, the flakes descending in endless, languorous swirls. Seemingly from nowhere, the snowplows emerge—yellow lights flashing and blades ...
Dog Had a Run-in with a Skunk? Try This.
Even if you don’t see a striped skunk waddle by, you can certainly smell it.
To the Rescue
North Country weather has always been a wild ride of ups and downs, and climate change hasn’t made it any easier to predict—just ask the loons.
Road Work
It is snowing, the flakes descending in endless, languorous swirls. Seemingly from nowhere, the snowplows emerge—yellow lights flashing and blades ...
Dog Had a Run-in with a Skunk? Try This.
Even if you don’t see a striped skunk waddle by, you can certainly smell it.
Travel
Spooky Spots around the Adirondacks
As a Gen-Xer—a demographic that often has trouble leaving our teenage angst and cynicism back with the oversized flannels and ripped jeans of the l...
Garnet Hill Lodge: North River’s Beloved Rustic Resort
"Homey" is how Ana Walker describes Garnet Hill Lodge, in North River, where she’s the front desk clerk. “People feel comfortable enough to come do...
Huttopia Brings Carefree Camping to Lake Luzerne
We had never glamped, but on that late-August day, our platform tent, with its sunny deck, cozy beds, woodstove and indoor plumbing, was a welcome ...
Spooky Spots around the Adirondacks
As a Gen-Xer—a demographic that often has trouble leaving our teenage angst and cynicism back with the oversized flannels and ripped jeans of the l...
Garnet Hill Lodge: North River’s Beloved Rustic Resort
"Homey" is how Ana Walker describes Garnet Hill Lodge, in North River, where she’s the front desk clerk. “People feel comfortable enough to come do...
Huttopia Brings Carefree Camping to Lake Luzerne
We had never glamped, but on that late-August day, our platform tent, with its sunny deck, cozy beds, woodstove and indoor plumbing, was a welcome ...
Recreation
Free Skate: How to Build a Backyard Ice Rink
For some Adirondackers, the ultimate in North Country living is being able to ski out the back door. But for Harold Slater, in Jay, it’s about “put...
Late-Season Riding at the Ausable Chasm Mountain-Bike Trails
And then there are the mountain-bike trails he has spent more than a decade creating near Ausable Chasm, all bearing the names of classic heavy-met...
Massawepie: An Off-the-Beaten-Path Fall Outing
Massawepie is an Iroquois term that means “lake by the marsh”—the source of the name being obvious, with the Massawepie Mire virtually touching Mas...
Free Skate: How to Build a Backyard Ice Rink
For some Adirondackers, the ultimate in North Country living is being able to ski out the back door. But for Harold Slater, in Jay, it’s about “put...
Late-Season Riding at the Ausable Chasm Mountain-Bike Trails
And then there are the mountain-bike trails he has spent more than a decade creating near Ausable Chasm, all bearing the names of classic heavy-met...
Massawepie: An Off-the-Beaten-Path Fall Outing
Massawepie is an Iroquois term that means “lake by the marsh”—the source of the name being obvious, with the Massawepie Mire virtually touching Mas...
History
From Cold River to the North Pole
For 33 years Noah John Rondeau, the best-known Adirondack hermit of the 20th century, lived in a crude cluster of huts and shanties along the Cold ...
Mystery Man: Unpacking an Adirondack Life
Bids at 30, now 30, would you go for 40, I hear 40!” Numbers were rattled off in a mesmerizing chant. The crowd listened, huddled in an unheated wa...
The Roots of Rustic Style
Everyone can—and generally does—have their own idea of Adirondack style, making it a knotty concept to nail down. The form has branched into ever-e...
From Cold River to the North Pole
For 33 years Noah John Rondeau, the best-known Adirondack hermit of the 20th century, lived in a crude cluster of huts and shanties along the Cold ...
Mystery Man: Unpacking an Adirondack Life
Bids at 30, now 30, would you go for 40, I hear 40!” Numbers were rattled off in a mesmerizing chant. The crowd listened, huddled in an unheated wa...
The Roots of Rustic Style
Everyone can—and generally does—have their own idea of Adirondack style, making it a knotty concept to nail down. The form has branched into ever-e...
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How to Remove Your Frozen Tongue from a Pole
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Arto Monaco and the Land of Makebelieve
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Valentino and Me
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Miniature Golf in the Kingdom
Miniature golf is a magical experience for a surprisingly large number of people. A lot of luck i...
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A Passionate Nature
HAROLD WESTON was born on February 14, 1894, in Merion, Pennsylvania, but his real life began—ac...
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Free Skate: How to Build a Backyard Ice Rink
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Service Stations: American Legions in the Adirondacks
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