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Tag: Outdoors
Snowmaking in the Adirondacks
With warmer winters, Jack LaDuke reports on new high-tech equipment that’s giving Mother Nature a helping hand on the slopes and trails in the Adirondacks.
World Snowshoe Championships
Snowshoe racers from around the globe are coming to the Adirondacks to compete in the World Snowshoe Championships in Saranac Lake, New York February 24-25. It will be the first time these World Championships have been held in the United States. Jack LaDuke introduces us Bob and Denise Dion, two snowshoe racers who also manufacture…
Enchanted Garden
Derek Muirden introduces us to herbalist Jane Desotelle and her enchanted garden hidden in the heart of the City of Plattsburgh. People Near Here is made possible with local support from Stafford, Owens, Piller, Murnane, Kelleher & Trombley, PLLC, and Lake Forest.
Re-Wilding of the Intervale Lowlands
In 2009, biologist Larry Master and his wife, Nancy, bought 135 acres of woods, fields, flowing water, and floodplain near Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains. Their mission: to make the property sing with songbirds, to convert its mowed fields to meadows full of native plants and animals, and to identify and monitor its wildlife…
Catch Our Drift: Why Adirondackers Love Winter, Sort Of
Do we in the Adirondacks love snow and cold? Do we hate them? Hear dyed-in-the-wool locals speak their minds about our long, cold, crystalline season of white. Produced for Mountain Lake PBS by Josh Clement (http://www.joshclementproductions.com) and Ed Kanze (http://edwardkanze.com). Thanks to all our business and individual supporters for making Curiously Adirondack happen! Best…
A Whole Lotta Flutterin’ Goin’ On: Butterflies Fly At The Paul Smith’s VIC Butterfly House
Out in the Adirondack wilds, we see plenty of butterflies: one here, one there, one on sunny days just about everywhere. To learn about their lives and lore and to see a variety up close, there’s no better idea than to visit the Butterfly House. It’s in Paul Smith’s, at the Visitor Interpretive Center run…
Woods, Rocks, And A View To Live For: Saint Regis Mountain In The Adirondacks
Tucked here and there among the celebrated Adirondack forty-six high peaks, lesser mountains offer hikers bigger bangs for the energy required to climb them. The best of the least may well be St. Regis Mountain. Located near Paul Smith’s, this 2,874-foot knob of ancient bedrock rewards hikers with magnificent views and a walk through woods…
Lady Of The Locks: DEC Lock Tender Margaret Hawthorn Lifts And Lowers Boats Along The Saranac River
Boats go up, and boats go down: canoes, kayaks, fishing boats, and more, traveling the watery channel through the woods rising between the Lower and Middle Saranac Lakes. It all goes smoothly, largely thanks to the efforts of lock tender Margaret Hawthorn. The Upper Locks operate the old-fashioned way, with muscle and finesse. Margaret loves…
A Walker Among Boats: DEC Lock Tender Scott Walker Lifts And Lowers Boats Along The Saranac River
To pass up and down the watery channels connecting the Adirondack village of Saranac Lake with the Lower and Middle Saranac Lakes, boats as small as canoes and kayaks (as well as recreational watercraft larger and speedier) pass through the Lower and Upper Locks. In a two-part series, Curiously Adirondack visits a backwoods St.-Lawrence-Seaway-in-miniature. In…
They Prowl By Night: Seeking The Wild Adirondack Bullhead
For many in the Adirondacks, the bullhead was the first fish, the one that gave the first sweet taste of fishing and its gastronomic and spiritual rewards. The bullhead is a fish to be admired, not only for its tender tasty flesh, but also for its industrious nest-building and the devotion of both parents to…