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New parking lot is not quite ready yet but new trail to ridge is open to climbers. The old 1.5-mile “herdpath” used to go straight and rather steeply at times for the ridge, the new trail meanders via 2.5-miles of beautiful forest all along a close to perfect grade, which our knees particularly...

During the night of Tuesday September 4th, 4.5 inches of rain fell in a few hours, this is likely was was the final straw for the ledge after the 2011 spring and late summer downpours, the damage was reported to DEC on Friday September 7.

http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/532721/Bad-year-for-bears.html?nav=5008 "So far, the DEC hasn't reported euthanizing any bears in the Adirondack backcountry, although many campers and hikers have reported having encounters with them in the Marcy Dam and Lake...

Land purchase: Q&A with The Nature Conservancy's Mike Carr http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/532266/Land-purchase--Q-A-with-The-Nature-Conservancy-s-Mike-Carr.html?nav=5046

Yes no need for it anymore, plus Explorer Editor posted exactly the same thing!

http://pressrepublican.com/0100_news/x1495166991/State-adds-69-000-acres-to-Forever-Wild-Adirondack-land

By chance I was climbing in Acadia National Park for a few days of last week and it stroke me as a place where one should stay on the trails as much as possible it's not only an extremely fragile environment but exceptionally busy, I was told the mountains get over a million visitors every...

I]* If you've done whacking like this, you may know about the difficulty in route finding while avoiding treading on fragile flora. The moss/lichen that covered most of the "clearings" in the woods were lush, and several inches thick. I rock-hopped as much as I could, but my goal of reaching the...

Yes there is water in Elk Pass but it will need to be filtered and will not give you an ice-cream headache either as it flows out of the pretty marsh! But Elk Pass is quite a way beyond the Colvin/Blake intersection. There is a legal campsite near water about 30 minutes below the Colvin/Blake...

During the 1970s James P. Heron, who could be the first climber to reach all of the 100, wrote in a 1979 edition of ADK Adirondac magazine : "On one occasion while bushwhacking to Little Moose Mt. in early June, I stopped for lunch at a lovely shady gurgling stream. On a nice dry rock. Unaware...

If Hurricane Irene treated all of the peaks of the Indian Lake area which are included in the other 54 list the same way as Little Moose Spencer's may have to come up with a Third edition of his guidebook* sooner than he had planned to! The forest of Little Moose today is nothing like it was on...

and reported in the local paper: http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/531397/New-Marcy-Dam-bridge-opened-to-hikers-Sunday.html?nav=5008

In spite of Irene and thanks to the ATIS crew trail to Panther Gorge from Elk Lake is in great shape, bridge across Marcy Brook is back up, planks are aligned and the newly cleared drainages are working wonder since even though it had rained for hours on Tuesday, the trail was as dry as an...

On Marcy and Algonquin and Cascade and sometimes on Colden, Wright, Skylight, etc. hose are "Summit Stewards", a program which was started in 1990: http://www.adk.org/trails/Summit_Steward.aspx

http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/531264/Backcountry-stewards--assistant-forest-rangers-will-patrol-outdoors.html?nav=5046

Well , I must say I do agree with DEC!

http://pressrepublican.com/0100_news/x376394434/Tahawus-railroad-line-can-reopen " The 12-mile line from North River to Newcomb's Tahawus hamlet connects the Saratoga & North Creek Railway with National Lead's titanium-dioxide mines in Tahawus. The mines closed in 1989, but tailings from the...

If you mean the access from the stone bridge on Route 73, yes it's very easy to follow, the snow was gone all the way to the slide weeks ago and now the herdpath. The crossing have not change much, even though many boulders/rocks were re-arranged by Irene. You can expect the slide to be quite...

Then you will be assigned a new correspondent next time you write unless it is only when you have reached your 46th summit.

You are very welcome, when was the last time I mailed you a letter?