Initially when I sat down to write this, I was going to write, with some frustration, that following the conventions of winter trail etiquette is simple common sense and that some folks just don’t do it. After rolling that thought over in my mind for a short while, I realized that these ...

If you drove through Lake Placid parked at the High Peaks Information Center for a hike over the past weekend, the only way you’d know we were in the middle of a pandemic would be all the face masks. The Tri-Lakes region and the High Peaks seem as busy as they would be during any year ...

Over the past week, we have, collectively, been given reason to pause and think about what it is to be a citizen of the United States of America. Whether you were glued to the television on Wednesday or tried to distance yourself as much as possible; whether you thought those protesters cruel, ...

With the amount of time I spend in the woods, I get to see a lot of preventable errors and mistakes wrought of inexperience or oversight. Because so much more goes into planning and preparation during the colder months of the year, those mistakes can be much more consequential. It’s not only ...

In my line of work, I often wind up on a trail with people who are stunned by how much there is to do in the Adirondacks. Many have never visited before, so when they learn about the huge variety of outdoor recreation opportunities that have been waiting mere hours from where they live, ...

By the time I heard about the ongoing search operation on Allen Mountain last week, the subject had been lost for the better part of three days. With nighttime temperatures in the valleys sitting in the low 20s Fahrenheit, it seemed fairly likely that those searching for the lost hiker were ...