Adventure Tales

Adventure Tales

by | Nov 23, 2021 | April 2021, From the Archives

Illustration by Tom Froese The Legend of PinPin by Christin Liberty I choose to believe it was him. The rest of the details are foggy, but what I remember clearly is his backpack pulling away from us down the trail. Between the ages of 12 and 17 I spent my summers...
A Merman’s Tale

A Merman’s Tale

by | Nov 5, 2019 | Guide to the Great Outdoors 2013

Illustration by Mark Wilson Weird, watery adventures on Lake Champlain Throughout 2019, in celebration of Adirondack Life’s 50th anniversary, we’re sharing an article per week from our archives—one for each year since 1970. In 2013 Leath Tonino, author of The Animal...

Operation Opalescent

by | Apr 20, 2017 | April 2013

A quest to find the park’s steepest water By the seventh mile of hiking, I was ready to pitch my cast-iron skillet into the river. When we left the Upper Works trailhead with white-water kayaks strapped on like backpacks, a skillet seemed like a necessity. But...