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Nature & Environment

Wrangling Yaks in Westport

When you’re 1,200 pounds with a set of horns fit for an oilman's Cadillac, temperament is everything.

To the Rescue

North Country weather has always been a wild ride of ups and downs, and climate change hasn’t made it any easier to predict—just ask the loons.

Road Work

It is snowing, the flakes descending in endless, languorous swirls. Seemingly from nowhere, the snowplows emerge—yellow lights flashing and blades ...

“When Smelt Are Running, It’s a Signal of Spring.”

"I tell my kids,” says Tom Conrad, “that when smelt are running, it’s a signal of spring, when everything wakes up after winter.” And those kids we...

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...

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 ...

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Travel

Grand Adirondack Hotel

Longtime Adirondackers get attached to places the way they knew them, mostly for sentimental reasons. In my case, more than 20 years ago I met my n...

Ice Jam Inn Brings “Elevated Comfort Food” to Upper Jay

It’s doubtful that moules frites and Upper Jay were ever mentioned in the same breath before chef Zack Ryder opened the Ice Jam Inn restaurant in l...

illustration of a bearded lumberjack playing a whistle with leprechauns

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at P2’s Irish (or is it French?) Pub

P-2’s Irish Pub, in Tupper Lake, has all of that and more at its annual St. Paddy’s Day blowout. What it doesn’t have is any claim to an Irish pedi...

Grand Adirondack Hotel

Longtime Adirondackers get attached to places the way they knew them, mostly for sentimental reasons. In my case, more than 20 years ago I met my n...

Ice Jam Inn Brings “Elevated Comfort Food” to Upper Jay

It’s doubtful that moules frites and Upper Jay were ever mentioned in the same breath before chef Zack Ryder opened the Ice Jam Inn restaurant in l...

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at P2’s Irish (or is it French?) Pub

P-2’s Irish Pub, in Tupper Lake, has all of that and more at its annual St. Paddy’s Day blowout. What it doesn’t have is any claim to an Irish pedi...

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Recreation

Skills: How to Start a Fire

The science of combustion is enough to make an indifferent student of chemistry’s eyes glaze over, but starting a fire comes down to a couple of si...

Free Skate: How to Build a Backyard Ice Rink

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 “put...

Late-Season Riding at the Ausable Chasm Mountain-Bike Trails

Late-Season Riding at the Ausable Chasm Bike Trails

And then there are the mountain-bike trails he has spent more than a decade creating near Ausable Chasm, all bearing the names of classic heavy-met...

Big Views and Tricky Maneuvers on Pitchoff Mountain

Pitchoff Mountain, nine miles east of Lake Placid, has two distinct personalities.

What I Didn’t See on the Way to Pine Lake

When I told my 16-year-old daughter I was going on a seven-or-so-mile round-trip hike alone last September, she acted like I was marching to my doom.

The Over Easy Is the High Peaks’ Toughest Mountain Bike Route. No Yolk.

By the time I reached the first climb of the Over Easy Mountain Bike Route, the whole canopy bowed with the weight of the rain. My single-track rib...

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June 2024

Wilderness camping, the lure of the lakeside, a blackfly primer, new hotspots for food and drink, and saviors or saboteurs?—a look at early environmental protestors.