Brian Mann

Aug 29, 2024 | adirondacklife.com | Annie Stoltie |Aurora Pfaff |Edward Kanze |Brian Mann

Adirondack Experience’s annual FallFest, in Blue Mountain Lake, happens October 6. Photograph by Nancie Battaglia Celebrate the harvest or lift a stein to the season at colorful gatherings throughout the park—find a bushel of fall fun at our events calendar.  Once the days shorten and temperatures drop, trees break out their fall coats—the costume change is a result of chlorophyll production slowing and stopping, allowing other pigments a turn in the spotlight.

May 6, 2024 | adirondacklife.com | Niki Kourofsky |Daniel Vollaro |Brian Mann |Tim Rowland

Illustration by Gwen Jamison Vogel Barbara McMartin called Canada Lake “one of the prettiest in the Adirondacks.” The prolific author—who wrote about everything Adirondack, from hiking to history to clashes over environmental policy—chose to live on Canada Lake’s shore, and she wasn’t the only one besotted by the blue expanse.

Apr 18, 2024 | adirondacklife.com | Brian Mann |Tim Rowland |Annie Stoltie

“Three P” races that include skiing, biking and paddling have existed for decades—out West in places like Crested Butte, Colorado, and Bend, Oregon, but also in the Adirondacks, from Tupper Lake to North Creek to Lake Placid. The idea, says Scott McKim, who’s competed in these events all over the country, is to “have fun during a tough time of year,” when ski and bike trails are at the mercy of mud, and waterways might be crusted with ice.

Nov 20, 2023 | adirondacklife.com | Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky |Brian Mann |Daniel Vollaro

Photograph by Yvonne Albinowski To the question often posed by evangelical preachers “do you know where you’ll spend eternity?” an increasing number of Adirondackers have an answer: in a pine forest by a wetland meadow in Essex.