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She steadied herself above the first steep section of the trail. Her eyes widened. She swallowed hard. She was nervou...

By 5:30 p.m. on a foggy Sunday in December, the Stony Creek Inn was already half-full, the hot dishes crowding the co...

Aaron Mair smiles when he tells the story of his first meeting with the Sierra Club, in 1994. But the smile does not ...

Whose woods these are I think I know. As I write in late March, the 20,758-acre Boreas Ponds tract belongs to the Adi...

Everyone’s got a smartphone—no status points there. But at least for the moment there’s only one truly smart body of ...

In the spring of 1964 a portal into the future opened in Flushing Meadows, Queens. For two six-month seasons, the Wor...

A smooth liquor can stimulate the senses. It can stimulate a smile or a conversation. And, yes, it can even stimulate...

Nip Rogers sees things differently. Maybe it’s because he’s six feet seven inches tall. Maybe it’s because he’s trave...

Anne LaBastille surprised her friends, even years after she stopped trekking through the Adi­rondacks as a wilderness...

On the map the North Branch of the Moose River deceives the paddler. It’s impossible to show every twist and turn of ...

You may know Albert Einstein as the Nobel-winning physicist whose theories of relativity revolutionized our understan...

Jodie Frederick’s birthday cake had been baked and decorated, ready on a platter in her new refrigerator. Frederick’s...