December 2011

Oh, Botheration

Oh, Botheration

You want to know what life was like in days of yore? You could go to the Adirondack Museum, at Blue Mountain Lake, the perfect place for a rainy summer day.

But on a snowy day? Grab your skis and head for the newly built trailhead on Barton Mines Road, in the hamlet of North Riv­er. Park, snap into your bindings, climb for about 15 easy minutes to the height of land on Pete Gay Mountain and then head downhill fast. But not just downhill.

An Adirondack Icon Revealed

An Adirondack Icon Revealed

There’s a hunk of moss-dappled granite near Baxter Mountain’s Beede Lane trailhead in Keene Valley. You might prop an awkward daypack beside it or lean against it to shake a pebble from a boot. Most folks wouldn’t think to climb it, with Baxter’s summit’s sweet valley...

After the Storm

After the Storm

Photograph by Carl Heilman II   I set out in my pickup truck just before dawn, the morning after Tropical Storm Irene careened through the eastern Adirondacks. I had been wrestling with her wind and rain in the long night as the gale pushed water through a wall...

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