by Kristen A. Schmitt | May 18, 2023 | Featured, Guide to the Great Outdoors 2023
Photograph by Nancie Battaglia Wynde Kate Reese sets off for a day hike that will take her to the top of Rooster Comb Mountain in Keene Valley. She’ll pick her way over gnarled tree roots, pine needles and rock for several hours until she reaches the summit, just shy...
by Adirondack Life | Feb 1, 2023 | February 2022, Recreation
THE SLATERS 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.” Harold first...
by Mark Kurtz | Oct 13, 2022 | Guide to the Great Outdoors 2022, Recreation
Photograph by Mark Kurtz Massawepie is an Iroquois term that means “lake by the marsh”—the source of the name being obvious, with the Massawepie Mire virtually touching Massawepie Lake. The mire is the largest boreal peatland in New York State and critical habitat for...
by Adirondack Life | Jun 27, 2022 | August 2022
photograph courtesy of the Wild Center Paddle On The Wild Center (518) 359-7800, www.wildcenter.org 45 Museum Drive, Tupper Lake To sample the paddling life without all the packing and planning, try a guided canoe trip through the Raquette River’s oxbow. The...
by Adirondack Life | Jun 1, 2022 | Guide to the Great Outdoors 2022, Recreation
illustration by Gwen Jamison Vogel Scott van Laer, a recently retired Department of Environmental Conservation forest ranger, knows a thing or two about how to safely recreate outdoors. After three decades working to protect the environment while educating, rescuing...
by Adirondack Life | Jun 1, 2022 | Guide to the Great Outdoors 2022, Recreation
GILL BROOK TRAIL | TOWN OF KEENE The clear pools dotting Gill Brook are popular places to cool off on the way to or from other hot spots in the Adirondack Mountain Reserve—Indian Head, the Colvin Range, Nippletop—but the waterway can be its own destination. The Gill...
by Paul Greenberg | Feb 15, 2022 | February 2022, Nature and Environment
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...
by Veronica Spann | Jan 1, 2022 | February 2021, Recreation
Ice-fishing on Adirondack lakes My dad’s been the captain of every ice-fishing outing I’ve ever been on. And there have been plenty. Most people envision ice fishing as a quiet, solitary activity—sitting alone on a bucket, bobbing a line up and down until there’s a...
by Rebecca Soffer | Aug 13, 2020 | October 2020, Travel
Railbiking through the forest and along the Hudson River Photograph courtesy of Revolution Rail Co. I’m a lifelong Lake George enthusiast. Specifically, a lifelong Lake George Narrows camping enthusiast. My first trip to the islands was when I was two months old, for...
by Connie Prickett | Feb 23, 2017 | April 2012, Recreation
Sometimes the pull to get outside in the spring is so strong that you just have to play hooky. It seems more than justified after the dark days of winter; I like to think of it as “calling in sunny.” That’s precisely what I did on a beautiful weekday in March to ski...