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I spent a very few short years in scouts as a kid, until my rural small town troop disbanded when the scoutmaster quit and no one else...

This has been an unusually cold and snowy winter so far here in north central NY State, on the western edge of the Adirondacks. I have a...

I dehydrate all my food at home as well as my snacks. Snacks consist of dried bananas (bananas, not plantains, huge difference from...

I would look foward to a demo day in the Adirondacks this seasson. The last time Bill had a demo in Saranac Lake, I ended up with a new...

Nehasane Forest Lodge on Adirondack Lake Lila when I was there some time before 1979 when it was razed by the state because the land it...

A trip I have wanted to repeat for more than 60 years is to repeat a trip I made with my father and mother in my tathere's then...

So my sad story turned out to be a good one. I have had a first generation Placidboat RapidFire (with relatively heavy wood gunwales...

Well take heart, today, our buddy "Phil" has prognosticated that we still have to wait out six more weeks of winter before spring...

Amen. I grew up not far from the Adirondacks on a good size slow moving river where I did not get into canoeing as much as with a tiny...

That's a good way to look at it. And if you slightly prefer some non-extreme tumblehome or flare, for example, that preference may be...

When I was making a lot of solo bushwhack wilderness trips, I would leave a written semi-itinerary, although I often modified some of my...

Regardless of where you roam, wilderness or not, as a minimum you will always see numerous commercial airliners in clear skies overhead...

Choppers are most likely from Army Fort Drum, on the northwestern edge of the Adirondacks, east of Watertown. F35s are from Air Force...

i have always sought solitude in places where I see no one for many days. Very near my home are many state forests and wilderness areas...

Here's what I am dealing with tomorrow, very typical for here ever since I was a kid. at least they are measuring it in inches. A couple...