Paddling the Raquette River

By Rich Macha

The Raquette River is New York’s third-longest river, making its way north for 146 miles from Raquette Lake in the heart of the Adirondack Park to the St. Lawrence River. On its way it passes through Forked, Long, and Big Tupper lakes before a series of dams affect its character. READ MORE

Flow Riders – Kids Mountain-Bike Club

By Alex Kochon

Imagine a world where kids convince their families to get outside for some healthy recreation, where they encourage their parents to dust off their 20-year-old bikes, and take them on weeknight or weekend adventures. READ MORE

Summer of Racing on Tap

By Jim Gazzale

Racing is back, baby! It’s a phrase you’ve probably heard more than once in recent weeks within your training circles. Following 2020, a year in which nearly all races were canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, triathletes have been eager to showcase their fitness. Over the next four months, they’ll have more than a half dozen local opportunities to do so. READ MORE

Back Door to Big Bad Luck

By Bill Ingersoll

The words “Finch Pruyn” dominated Adirondack headlines for an entire decade. From 2007, when the Glens Falls logging company of that name sold its entire portfolio of Adirondack landholdings to The Nature Conservancy, to 2019, when the last of those lands were classified by the Adirondack Park Agency – after being added to the New York Forest Preserve. READ MORE

Attacking the Trails – Physically and Mentally

By Laura Clark

Much has been written about the mental aspect of running, from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s classic “Running Flow” to Matt Fitzgerald’s “How Bad Do You Want It?” Still, there is another aspect to running on dirt that goes beyond mental preparedness; the ability to think analytically while cruising rutted switchbacks. Sure, road aficionados may encounter the occasional slick pavement or pothole, but it is not part and parcel of the anticipated experience. Trail runners, on the other hand expect and even relish mud, roots and twisty climbs. It is what they signed up for. READ MORE

Adrian Adams

By Bethany Garretson

The black flies are biting. Adrian Adams, a bobsled athlete for Team USA, arrives at the track wearing a black Under Armor T-shirt and pair of navy-blue shorts. The air is thick; 85 degrees with 80% humidity. Nonetheless, summer training for the 2022 Winter Olympics has begun in Lake Placid. READ MORE

Risky Business in the Great Outdoors

By Lawrence C. Swayne, MD

The front wheel of my bicycle shuddered suddenly after striking a large pebble, jarring me awake. Apparently, I’d dozed off for a few seconds after pedaling continuously for the past 22 hours. Now in pitch darkness, I was hurtling downhill on a loosely-packed country road with my odometer pushing past 35 mph. Looking up; my headlamp illuminated a doe and two trailing fawns sealing off the road. READ MORE

Getting Back into Cycling – Affordably and Sanely

By Michael Seinberg

Since 2020, interest in cycling has skyrocketed thanks to the pandemic and people’s desire to do something healthy and outdoors. At the exact same time, the supply of bicycles and parts has shrunken thanks to tensions between the US and China, tariff issues, supply chain problems and production slowdowns. So how do you get back on the road simply, cheaply, and sooner than later? READ MORE

“Iron Sharpens Iron”

By Herb Terns

There’s something different about triathlon. Some of it is the gear: the slick wetsuits and the bikes with aero bars. Some of it is the terminology: “nutrition plans” and “bricks” and “T1” and “T2.” It’s like a secret, sweaty world. READ MORE