Turn, Turn, Turn Nicholas Spooner-Rodie 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... Read More
Mother of a Hike Lisa Ballard 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... Read More
Routes Revival Phil Brown 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... Read More
Derby Days Julie Landry 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... Read More
Little Peak Leath Tonino Colden is cliffy. Algonquin is steep. Marcy is the biggest of big girls. Gothics is the gnarliest of gnarly boys. And... Read More
After the Fall Don Mellor "It's almost beer time, Mellor!" I stopped for a moment and looked back down the rope at Charley Berry. He was about... Read More
Unbroken Brandon del Pozo One day in February 2017, Matt Horner, then 47, was using crampons and a pair of axes to pick his way up Rhiannon, an... Read More
Tongue Twisters David Thomas-Train Snow-covered terrain is a layer cake of frost and creatures. Last winter, particularly cold and snowy, the white fros... Read More
Path Finders Brian Mann It's a luminous autumn day and Kyle Drake climbs a slope of Dial Mountain in the Dix Mountain Wilderness Area, thread... Read More
Ride for the River Amy Feiereisel The day of Ausable River Association’s annual Ride for the River is particularly idyllic. There are clouds in the sky... Read More
Beautiful Boreas Brian Mann The first time I visited the Boreas Ponds, we explored the chain of lakes with Governor Andrew Cuomo paddling a canoe... Read More
Big Day Out Niki Kourofsky It’s July 5th—the marching bands have faded, the fireworks have fizzled and the potato salad has finally gone south. ... Read More