Marcy’s first hike
We took Marcy over to the Lishakill Nature Preserve on Sunday for her first hike. She did a great job! There were other people, kids and some loose dogs – she was friendly and eager throughout. The...
View ArticleOur first rattlesnake on Split Rock Mountain!
In any other place in the Adirondacks, Split Rock Mountain wouldn’t be a mountain. With rounded slopes and a modest height, it would be a shoulder of something greater if it lived in the High Peaks, an...
View ArticleHackensack: That little mountain in Warrensburg
You know it, right? The mountain with the American flag near the summit? (15 points if you know it.) When you’re coming from the west, you know you’re getting near Warrensburg when you spot Hackensack....
View ArticleA day on the Jaws
The inside of the car became silent when we saw it. The rugged, rocky shoulder of Giant Mountain was bathed in early morning light. This was worth getting up early for and we hadn’t hiked a step yet....
View ArticleJaws II – Adversity then camaraderie, comedy and inspiration
I was five minutes from meeting two guys at “The Garden” parking lot in Keene Valley. We were planning to go up Big Slide, then cross over the Johns Brook Valley to climb both peaks of the Wolf Jaws....
View ArticleA documentary on the 46ers
Blake Cortright, a young film student from Albany, is raising money to fund a documentary film about the Adirondack 46ers, those folks (like me and Herb) who have climbed all 46 Adirondack peaks over...
View ArticleGoing it alone
My column in today’s sports section is about going out alone, as I did on my recent trip to Botheration Pond. Before this year, I had hiked alone just a handful of times, but now going out by myself is...
View ArticleNot Without Blowdown: Wolf Pond Mountain
My car tires broke through mud puddles covered in ice on Garnet Lake Road. This was supposed to be a spring hike but the thermometer two weekends ago read south of 30 degrees as our group searched...
View ArticleDo you glamp?
I wrote an article on “glamping” (glamorous camping) for the issue of Explore magazine that appeared in Sunday’s paper. You can read it here. It’s a fun alternative for those of us who like to sleep...
View ArticleGuest Post: Easterns: Canoeing the Upper Hudson by Mike Freeman
This guest post is written by Mike Freeman, whose book on paddling the Upper Hudson, Drifting, was published last year by SUNY Press. As an upstate interloper I’d caught a break, as early August, 2009,...
View ArticleThe last ski?
How to have a rough ski trip: Do a hard workout at the gym the day beforehand. Pick an unknown trail. The guidebook says “novice” but you’ve been fooled before…. You decide this year you’re a better...
View ArticleDear fellow dog owners…
My column in Friday’s sports section is about loose dogs on the trail. It seems to have resonated with a lot of people – as of this morning, the column had been shared more than 600 times on Facebook....
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