Recreation

I could feel the excitement grow as my dad and I stepped out of the car and we made our way down to the riverbank. Mu...

I’m the kind of hiker who needs a reward for my efforts, typically a bald mountaintop or a fire tower with a grand vi...

Back in the day when people listened to music on iPods, I stood at the base of Chapel Pond Slab and spun the click wh...

I don’t remember when I first learned how to hold a fishing rod. By the time I had learned to walk, my father already...

Colden is cliffy. Algonquin is steep. Marcy is the biggest of big girls. Gothics is the gnarliest of gnarly boys. And...

"It's almost beer time, Mel­lor!" I stopped for a moment and looked back down the rope at Charley Berry. He was about...

One day in February 2017, Matt Horner, then 47, was using crampons and a pair of axes to pick his way up Rhiannon, an...

Snow-covered terrain is a layer cake of frost and creatures. Last winter, particularly cold and snowy, the white fros...

It's a luminous autumn day and Kyle Drake climbs a slope of Dial Mountain in the Dix Mountain Wilderness Area, thread...

The day of Ausable River Association’s annual Ride for the River is particularly idyllic. There are clouds in the sky...

The first time I visited the Boreas Ponds, we explored the chain of lakes with Governor Andrew Cuomo paddling a canoe...

It’s July 5th—the marching bands have faded, the fireworks have fizzled and the potato salad has finally gone south. ...