Darkness is coming. Even through the leaden clouds I can sense the fading of the light. The day is made darker by an unrelenting rain that drips off the hemlocks and down the back of my neck. The trail from Five Ponds has turned to an obstacle course of slippery rocks...
Nature and Environment
How Will Lake Placid’s Olympic Sports Fare in a Warmer World?
A new report looks at the impact of climate change on places that have hosted winter games
Garden of Earthy Delights: Adirondack Mushrooms
Photograph by Robert Lubeck In 1907 the eminent land surveyor Verplanck Colvin wrote a letter to his friend Charles Horton Peck. He acknowledged having received Peck’s annual report of the state botanist and wrote, “It gives me pleasure to see that you continue...
Happy Birthday, Black Bears!
Regardless of when they mate, most females give birth around the same date
Legend of the Fall
It's hard to imagine fall in the Adirondacks without a canopy of golds, oranges and reds, but for a couple thousand years after the retreat of the glaciers, only evergreens dared creep north. Then, 10,000 years ago, cold-hardy paper birch returned, flying the yellow...
After the Storm
Photograph by Carl Heilman II I set out in my pickup truck just before dawn, the morning after Tropical Storm Irene careened through the eastern Adirondacks. I had been wrestling with her wind and rain in the long night as the gale pushed water through a wall...
To Take a Leek
Ramps are a wild delicacy, but harvest with care.
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October 2026
Lost hikers, splintered bones and wildfires—a forest ranger reflects on more than two decades of coming to the rescue. Plus the oldest tavern in the Adirondacks, a trip through James Bond’s Lake George, and new energy in Schroon Lake.
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