Jane Mackintosh

2 months ago | adirondacklife.com | Annie Stoltie |Elizabeth Folwell |Niki Kourofsky |Jane Mackintosh

Photograph courtesy of the Olympic Regional Development AuthorityLast year on a February afternoon, Danny Filippidis left Whiteface Mountain’s Mid-Station Lodge, clicked into his red Volkls and skied away. According to the Canadian Press, he’d told his friends, a group of fellow Toronto firefighters on their annual Adirondack ski trip, that he wanted to fetch his phone at the bottom of the mountain. And then he disappeared.

2 months ago | adirondacklife.com | Elizabeth Folwell |Niki Kourofsky |Jane Mackintosh

Photograph by Nancie BattagliaI was four years into ski bumming and two years out of college when I met Betsy in the summer of 1993. I got tipped off that she was at Desperado’s, in Lake Placid, eating dinner; I walked in and asked for an internship. Never mind that she only accepted undergrads. She took pity and made an exception.

Jan 10, 2025 | adirondacklife.com | Elizabeth Folwell |Niki Kourofsky |Jane Mackintosh |Annie Stoltie

Cherry Patch Pond photography by Johnathan Esper Light has remarkable, changeable qualities in the Adirondacks. In winter it can be pink, floating warmth over a chill landscape, or blue, tinting a blank canvas of snow to mirror an austere sky. In summer, light has depth and heft to it, a physical intensity that bears down like gravity or hauls a scene right into the viewer’s eyes and brain.

Jul 18, 2023 | adirondacklife.com | Niki Kourofsky |Jane Mackintosh |Annie Stoltie |Elizabeth Folwell

Home gardeners embrace optimism each spring. Market growers combine informed aspiration with hard reality. Jeffrey Rugen, with 15 acres and eight greenhouses, lives in Hope. The week after a spring storm dumped more than a foot of snow on his place, knocking out the power and forcing him to tend to generators reluctant to keep the hothouses warm, Jeffrey said, “Farming is not as romantic as people think.” His Hope Valley Farm is tucked amid the hills and creeks of southern Hamilton County.

Jul 6, 2023 | adirondacklife.com | Niki Kourofsky |Jane Mackintosh |Annie Stoltie |Gregory Volk

by | August 2023, History Last summer, I was delighted to discover an article in this magazine about how the Caroga Arts Collective is bringing a musical revival to long-shuttered Sherman’s Amusement Park in Caroga Lake. Caroga Lake, my mother’s small hometown in Fulton County, has been dear to me my whole life. I lived there summers with my family when I was young.