I am privileged to chronicle, on a weekly basis, many things about the Adirondack region. Writing for a local weekly magazine in the Northeast corner of New York, I find that the High Peaks region and the Lake Champlain valley offer amazing opportunities for the outdoors man and woman of today.
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| Looking toward Iroquois from Algonquin |
Some believe that we have tamed these mountains. Perhaps there is a kernel of truth to that thought. Certainly man has made inroads into the mountains that may never have been meant to be, but the mountains continue to fight against that encroachment. Some of the mystique of the High Peaks has diminished as the herd trails to their summits seem to get deeper and wider each year. On most peaks it is impossible to get lost, at least as long as you stay in the rut. But in spite of this, there is still a whole lot of wilderness in our Adirondacks.
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| View of one type of herd trail |
The desire to interlace the sky ways with cell phone towers, thus greater cell phone coverage, under the guise of protection for mountain travelers, fosters belief that the mountains have succumbed to being tamed. I doubt this highly! There still remains much to experience in the wilderness of these mountains. There is an ageless quality about these mountains that must be experienced to understand their draw and enduring charm.
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| View of Mt. Marcy |
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