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"The main thing this thread does is make me want to go hike it and see what the commotion is about. If I still lived 2.5 hours away I would, but now I am more like 5 hours away by car." We just received another 2 inches of rain the last few hours, bring your life jacket just in case! And plenty...

Here two pictures from Google Earth which confirm the nature of the terrain all around and not only the many drainages but their size. For instance one we cross over a bridge before reaching the Opalescent soon merges with the one from the slide and becomes just as wide as the Opalescent if not...

Rerouting a trail, in that case a major undertaking because of the terrain as a number of scoutings offered just as bad solutions, it's either flat and sporting a maze of sizable drainages or steep terrain sparkled with truck size boulders. Not sure it was a poorly chosen route at the time, as...

Went from Long Lake to Ouluska lean-to three weeks ago, no bushwhack this time, but there is significant new (2014 & 2015) and nasty blowdown at lower elevation in places, it`s likely the route to the slide has not improved of late! And be ready for fording deep waters a couple of times, North...

Raymond, oddly enough mine (a Garmin 70S) did exactly the same thing this past Saturday. Luckily I did not really need it where we were bushwhacking. Then some 90 minutes later as we were on the summit of one of the two small peaks we visited it found satellites and itself! Over 15 years of GPS...

http://lakeplacidnews.com/page/content.detail/id/523124/UP-CLOSE--Keene-s-Tony-Goodwin-a-force-of-nature.html?nav=5005

"Of course, as it turns out, everyone was safe by then." Safe as in out of the woods, yes, but not without, sadly, long term consequences for the children. Obviously summit fever can make a caring mother make terrible decisions she will likely regret, and see, for the rest of her life!

"Rescuers launched such a large response because of the age of the children, the time of day, the weather and terrain, Forest Ranger Captain John Streif said. It was the largest rescue team since at least December 2012 when an ice climber was saved on Nippletop Mountain. (...)The mother, Ning...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/21/the-young-woman-and-mountain/SEBPucaGpA1Fun4R5uoj7K/story.html

Alain does not have a FACEBOOK page and the address given above is wrong by miles and miles and miles... and yes he is still hiking in the Adirondacks...

As we were headed to Tupper Lake this morning (from Elizabethtown and back via Lake Placid and Keene) we found out that since December 24, 2014 the Exit 29 North Hudson gas station located across the road from the long gone Frontier Town McDonald is now open from 6AM to 9PM seven days a week and...

A November Thursday whose trail conditions were more late September like, thanks to the previous two days super warm days and nights snow and ice were nowhere to be seen. Even brook crossings were a breeze and there are a fair number of them when one hikes to Grace Peak starting from Route 73...

Ausable Club Road just like in the summer - cut-off trail to Gill Brook Trail in good condition - above 3000' snow mixed with ice increases to about 3 inches = micro spikes a must specially down! This past summer the ATIS Professional Trail Crew build a ladder immediately below the summit of...

http://www.redbull.com/us/en/adventure/stories/1331686992409/steve-fisher-hanging-spear-video

http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/543463/Northway-gas-station-to-reopen.html?nav=5046

If you have the National Geographic map 742 it shows clearly private and state land boundaries. I believe I already answered your questions about Seventy Lane on another thread you initiated.

Please note that the Jay Mountain Road is seasonal and when conditions allow a snowmobile route, and I personnaly would not leave a car parked alongside any of the roads leading to Jay Mt Road in winter, namelly Carlott, Goff, etc. Have you ever been in the Jay Mountain Wilderness before?

Here another article with more comments and explications from DEC: http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/540827/Marcy-Dam-will-be-dismantled.html?nav=5008 [I]DEC also considered allowing the "dam to fail on its own; however, a catastrophic failure would result in...

I received Mr. Bailey permission to publish his account of the process: "I found the name MacDonough explained in Colvin’s 1874 Report probably mid 2012, but I saw it on early maps as far back as the 1985 Adirondack Museum exhibit, “History in the Mapping”. (They published a 72 page...

Jim Bailey’s petition to the US Board of Geographic Names to rename Slip Mountain was successful! He was informed that the name change was approved. It is now officially MacDonough Mountain. Here’s the link...