For some Adirondackers, the ultimate in North Country living is being able to ski out the back door. But for Harold Slater, in Jay, it’s about “putting your skates on in the house and heading right out onto your own personal rink.”
February 2022
Could Wolves Repopulate the Adirondacks?
After eradication in the Lower 48, wolves are now thriving in some Rocky Mountain states. The animals had disappeared from the Adirondacks by 1900, due to unrestricted hunting and habitat loss. Could reintroduction or natural recolonization bring Eastern wolves back to the region?
Ice-fishing’s a Way of Life for this Veteran Adirondack Guide
Terry Watson is usually much more careful. But when the chance to skitter across frozen Copperas Pond in search of big lake trout presented itself one spring day a few years back, the veteran Adirondack guide couldn’t refuse. In the course of Terry’s 60-plus years fishing the North Country, ice fishing for lake trout has gone from being a much-anticipated winter treat to a legally actionable transgression.
The Town that Generosity Built
He was dying. And after caring for his brother eight years earlier—comforting him until his last gasp—he knew how this would end. But if consumption would soon kill him, leaving behind his beloved wife, two babies and a happiness and stability he could only have imagined, he wanted to spend his last days in the mountains and the forest. In his 1915 autobiography, Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau wrote that such surroundings “seemed to meet a longing I had for rest and the peace of the great wilderness.” Weak and feverish, Trudeau endured the trip from his home in New York City to the remote, rugged northern Adirondacks. He was jostled and slammed in a horse-drawn wagon the last 42 miles from Au Sable Forks to Paul Smith’s hotel, where he was carried like a sleepy child to his room.
When the NFL Summered in Saranac Lake
For a handful of Augusts, Saranac Lake was the summer home of professional football in the Northeast. Between 1946 and 1951, the Philadelphia Eagles and then the New York Football Giants held their training camps in the village.
Learning to Fly
Larry Stone has attempted to retire five times. And now, at age 76, the New York Ski Educational Foundation (NYSEF) jumping coach has given up trying to walk away. After decades of working with kids in the Junior Jumping Program, Stone says his latest group of athletes—18 in all—have more talent than he’s ever seen.
Romancing the Park
If snuggling with your sweetheart by a crackling fireplace after a day of cavorting in the snow sounds like just your cup of cocoa, the Adirondacks can make your Rom-Com daydreams come true.
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April 2026
The Wildlife Issue! A peek inside the secret lives of Adirondack moose by Jeff Nadler, wildlife portraits by Pamela Underhill Karaz, an opossum search party led by best-selling author Kristin Kimball, plus loons, turtles, turkeys, chipmunks, coyotes and more.
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