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Recently, a historian friend known for sleuthing re­gional nuggets found the album Old Time and Jugband Music by a gr...

This time at Cold River—the last time—his touch was light as pollen, no snapped twigs or bootprints on the familiar t...

Winter fun for Deb and Bob Kreider means hooking up their fluffy Siberian huskies and hitting the snowy trails that m...

In 1852, a group of surveyors surprised an old man living in a crude shelter near Herkimer County’s Ice Cave Mountain...

In early May of 2001, my wife and I packed up our 10th-floor apartment in Manhattan, loaded the kids in the car with ...

Holiday picks from the editors of Adirondack Life.

“Artists don’t retire,” says Jean-Jacques Duval, sitting in his Willsboro studio in front of an unfinished abstract p...

I n some circles the term “peak-bagger” is disparaged, the belief being that checking summits off a list in record ti...

Moose. They are so much a part of the iconography of the Adirondacks that you would think the state’s largest land ma...

The tanneries were dead and the sawmills were dying. Lumberjacks were more often spotted at sportsmen’s shows than in...

Guidebook veteran Bill Ingersoll has packed 50 Hikes in the Adirondack Mountains (Countryman Press, 2019) with a user...

I admit it was a bit of an ambush. “Make a loon call,” I commanded my friend Maria, shoving my phone up to her mouth ...