Recreation

Look Before You Leap

Adirondack swimming holes can look mighty inviting on a warm spring day. Before you take the plunge, though, take note of conditions that can lead to hidden dangers:

Spectators—some in horned Viking helmets—watch from behind shin-high borders and burn barrels while players chase pucks toward six-inch-tall nets. Absent are goalies, time stops and thrown fists. This is the Adirondack Ice Bowl, an easy-going pond-hockey tournament in the heart of the Adirondacks.

BOW in the Snow

It wasn’t your usual pleasantries-over-brunch exchange, but this was no ordinary weekend. It was B.O.W. in the Snow, the winter version of Becoming an Outdoors-Woman, a nationwide program designed to build women’s confidence in outdoorsy skills.

Is There a True “Adirondack” Dog Breed?

Sometimes big adventurers come in small packages.

School of Fish

There is no better salve for post-traumatic stress, A. J. Beaudoin believes, than the call of the loon and the morning mist rising from an Adirondack pond.

Hermit’s Lair: A Rumored Crash Pad of Woodsman French Louie

Louie had a sprawling network of temporary camps throughout his trapping grounds—one was said to be little more than a hollow log, another might have been Kunjamuk Cave, near the village of Speculator, with its handily situated smoke hole.

High Drama: OK Slip Falls

From the river, the mouth of OK Slip Brook is little more than a comma in the epic poem of a trip down the Hudson Gorge.

Buck Mountain Fire Tower Trail

This spectacular view of the Whitney Wilderness Area and Little Tupper Lake comes to you courtesy of a very good boy.

Zen and the Art of Discomfort

The Northville-Placid Trail cuts through the West Canada Lakes Wilderness in some of the most remote terrain in the Adirondacks. It’s about as far from human hubbub as one can get. But one rainy July morning, it’s anything but placid.

NPT Centennial Events

The Northville–Placid Trail turns 100 years old this year—and communities around the Adirondack Park are ready to celebrate. Below is a list of highlights; tor trail information, stories and more events, visit www.npt100.com.

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