Adirondackers who love ravens and crows are cautiously optimistic. For the most part, life is good for “corvids” (members of the family Corvidae) up here in the North Country, and their numbers and ranges have been swelling in recent decades.
February 2016
Double Jeopardy
January 3, 2015, was a fantastic ice day on Lake Champlain. Seven of us, all veteran wild-ice skaters, put in at Lampham Bay Fishing Access just south of Addison, Vermont. We skated north on ice that was incredibly smooth and averaged around three to four inches thick—plenty thick enough to support our weight. There were plates of thinner ice that we were able to detect by using ice poles; we avoided these places by taking our skates off and walking across narrow points of land or along the shoreline.
Snow Days
She steadied herself above the first steep section of the trail. Her eyes widened. She swallowed hard. She was nervous. Why wouldn’t she be? An eight-year-old novice skier, up a real mountain for the first time and preparing to go down it.
Then she turned her skis and was on her way.
It’s a remarkable thing to watch a child as she conquers a fear and finds success. This one did it by climbing into a gondola to ride up a mountain just so she could try to make it back down. Yet there she was, our sweet Chloe, burdened with trepidation since before she could walk, doing wide turns 3,200 feet up with a view of distant mountains spread out in front of her.
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