Niki Kourofsky

Feb 24, 2025 | adirondacklife.com | Annie Stoltie |Elizabeth Folwell |Niki Kourofsky

The best part of the photo contest? Getting a chance to see the park—and its people and critters—through a whole new set of lenses. This year we wanted to share the fun, so we invited Manuel Palacios, of Zone 3 Photography, to join in as a guest judge. He gravitated toward his grand-prize pick right away, noting that Nancy LaFountain-Blow’s Crisp Autumn Sunrise on Middle Pond “portrays a calm, fleeting moment in nature, inviting a sense of quiet reflection.

Feb 11, 2025 | 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.

Jan 28, 2025 | 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.

Jun 21, 2024 | adirondacklife.com | Mark Obbie |Niki Kourofsky |Lisa Bramen

Photograph by Johnathan EsperThis spectacular view of the Whitney Wilderness Area and Little Tupper Lake comes to you courtesy of a very good boy. In 1933 two veterans of Byrd’s 1929 South Pole expedition, Jack Bursey and his lead sled dog St. Lunaire, hauled the bones of a 60-foot fire tower up Buck Mountain, in Long Lake. Now the tower has been rehabbed, and an easement donated by Cedar Heights Timber allows a new generation to follow in St. Lunaire’s pawprints.