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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Mark Obbie |Niki Kourofsky |Lisa Bramen
Photograph courtesy of the author The Northville-Placid Trail cuts through the West Canada Lakes Wilderness in some of the most remote terrain in the Adirondacks. It’s about as far from human hubbub as one can get. But one rainy July morning, it’s anything but placid. Deep in a blowdown-filled beaver swamp, the woods reverberate with the voice of my daughter, Rae, who at the moment has—let us be frank—quite the potty mouth.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Lisa Bramen |Annie Stoltie |Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky
Bartender Graham Chrystie photograph by Carrie Marie Burr After sitting vacant for a decade, Bolton Landing’s former Sagamore Pub had lost whatever luster it once possessed. But on their visits to Lake George, Paty and Richard Boccato—who have launched successful businesses on both coasts—saw it as a diamond in the rough. Situated at the intersection where guests leaving the swanky Sagamore Resort turn onto Lake Shore Drive, the empty building “seemed so wrong in this cute little town,” says Paty.
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May 30, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Annie Stoltie |Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky
by | 2012 Guide to the Great Outdoors, History As of early April 2012, Peter Fish, of Keene, had hiked 5,344-foot Mount Marcy 763 times.
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May 30, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Annie Stoltie |Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky
by | Featured, Guide to the Great Outdoors 2024 The Northville–Placid Trail turns 100 years old this year—and communities around the Adirondack Park are ready to celebrate. Below is a list of highlights; for trail information, stories and more events, visit www.npt100.com.
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May 22, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky |Daniel Vollaro
Photograph by George Aman, courtesy of William “Jay” O’hernJune 1946. World War II has ended, the economy is rebounding, and life in America looks sunny. In the Adirondacks, Troop 1 of the Boy Scouts of America from Paoli, Pennsylvania, is on its traditional 15-day canoe outing, mostly on what is today known as the “90-Miler” route, from Old Forge to Saranac Lake. On one of those days, the Scouts stow their canoes and hike the Northville-Placid Trail upstream along the Cold River.
