The Great Race

The Great Race

by | Sep 10, 2020 | Guide to the Great Outdoors 2020, Recreation

The Adirondack Trail Ride covers 585 brutal—and beautiful—miles Photograph by the author It was a funny place to watch a mountain-bike race, perched on the stones lining the bank of the Sacandaga River just outside Northville. Soon enough, shadows flashed through the...

Unbroken

by | Apr 25, 2019 | April 2019, Recreation

How two Adirondackers came back after near-fatal falls One day in February 2017, Matt Horner, then 47, was using crampons and a pair of axes to pick his way up Rhiannon, an Adirondack ice-climbing route on the cliffs that form the far side of Chapel Pond. The pond is...
Ride for the River

Ride for the River

by | Jun 28, 2018 | August 2018, Recreation

Photograph by Everett Sapp   Cycling along—and for—the Ausable The day of Ausable River Association’s annual Ride for the River is particularly idyllic. There are clouds in the sky, but no danger of rain. It’s warm, but not too hot. Perfect biking weather. Still,...

Ride of the Century

by | Jun 13, 2017 | August 2011

A “century” is, for cyclists, the ultimate challenge—a 100-mile day, the two-wheeled equivalent of running a marathon. And what better way to ride a century than around the Adirondack Park’s greatest lake? My cycling partner Steve and I arrive at Lake George village...