Recreation

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. ...

The summer after my junior year of high school I found myself working on a cattle ranch in Montana owned by Mel Gibso...

You want to know what life was like in days of yore? You could go to the Adirondack Museum, at Blue Mountain Lake, th...

photograph by Jamie West McGiver   Hiking, swimming and killer views—this Lake George trek has it all It’s the b...