Heart of Darkness: Hiking the Adirondacks at Night Brian Mann Standing on a shelf of rock looking toward the High Peaks, I realized my mistake. I had no headlamp, no source of lig... Read More
John Dillon Park: Opening the Woods to the Differently Abled Elizabeth Folwell Just north of Long Lake, at the end of a dirt road and beyond an ornate gate, is a campground like no other in the no... Read More
Zero to Jackrabbit: Taking on a Legendary Adirondack Trail Paul Greenberg What challenge could you present that tricky knees and rising blood pressure could overcome? What would get the spiri... Read More
Free Skate: How to Build a Backyard Ice Rink Adirondack Life For some Adirondackers, the ultimate in North Country living is being able to ski out the back door. But for Harold S... Read More
Late-Season Riding at the Ausable Chasm Mountain-Bike Trails Phil Brown And then there are the mountain-bike trails he has spent more than a decade creating near Ausable Chasm, all bearing ... Read More
Massawepie: An Off-the-Beaten-Path Fall Outing Mark Kurtz Massawepie is an Iroquois term that means “lake by the marsh”—the source of the name being obvious, with the Massawep... Read More
Playing in the Dirt: New Mountain-Bike Trails around the Adirondack Park Lisa Bramen Careening down dirt trails on two wheels—usually after a quad-busting, lung-searing uphill slog—has become one of the... Read More
Explore 5 Central Adirondack Communities on the TOBIE Trail Nancy Davis Kho My TOBIE trail adventure last summer was perfectly planned—in my head, at least. Read More
Big Views and Tricky Maneuvers on Pitchoff Mountain Lisa Ballard Pitchoff Mountain, nine miles east of Lake Placid, has two distinct personalities. Read More
What I Didn’t See on the Way to Pine Lake Niki Kourofsky When I told my 16-year-old daughter I was going on a seven-or-so-mile round-trip hike alone last September, she acted... Read More
The Over Easy Is the High Peaks’ Toughest Mountain Bike Route. No Yolk. Jamie West McGiver By the time I reached the first climb of the Over Easy Mountain Bike Route, the whole canopy bowed with the weight of... Read More
Ask an Expert: A Retired Forest Ranger Debunks Some Wilderness Whoppers Adirondack Life Scott van Laer, a recently retired Department of Environmental Conservation forest ranger, knows a thing or two about... Read More