Message In A Bottle
Author’s Note: This story 1st appeared in The Adirondack Almanack’s August 1st 2021 on-line edition. ********** When I was a boy growing up in our house on 1 Stevenson Lane, my mom had an antique bottle collection that she kept on a shelf. One of those bottles had...
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Adirondack Reflections
Author’s Note: This story 1st appeared as an “Adirondack Almanack Exclusive” in their October 15, 2021 online edition. Fantastic fall foliage. NYS DEC Forest Ranger rescue tales. A hike along Paul Smith College VIC trails with wife, family, and our own troop of “Paw Patrol” canine companions. Adirondack memories...
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Free
Soar High Above Windswept Waters with Eagles Breathe Crisp Mountain Air Through The Trees Rise to The Sun Each Frosty Fall Morning Live Each Day Mother Earth’s Outlaw Way One With Nature Under God Free ********** Until Our Trails Cross Again: Live Each Day True To Your Own ADKO...
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Just Ducky
“In September of 2020, DEC adopted new regulations that added two veteran and active military waterfowl hunting days in four of the five NYS waterfowl hunting zones. During the special season, military active duty and veterans can hunt migratory game birds.” NYS DEC Announcement, September 2020 ********** As...
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Adirondack Dinosaurs
Author’s Note: This story appeared in the November 12, 2021 online edition of The Adirondack Almanack. “Adirondack Dinosaurs are far from extinct. In fact, certain species are quietly expanding their territory, migrating. Ancient carnivores slowly reclaiming what was once their domain. Patiently biding their time while they plot their...
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Those Cedar Logs
Author’s Note: This story appeared in the September 9, 2021 online edition of The Adirondack Almanack. “Adirondack lean-tos are so much more than simple cedar log structures built in the woods.” “The Bull Rush Bay lean-to is scheduled some time later this month to be demolished and replaced.” ...
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The Great Canoe Race Conspiracy of 1977
“The untold story of how the Adirondack Park Agency’s scheme blocked the Environmental Conservation Department team from certain canoe racing victory” ********** The year was 1977. I was 13 years old. It was the summer before I entered my freshman year at Saranac Lake High School. My Dad,...
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Dill Pickle Pike
Author’s note: This story appeared in The Adirondack Almanack’s Friday, August 13th, 2021 online edition. “While many pickled pepper’s Peter Piper may have indeed picked, I sometimes ponder: How many pickled pecks would have Piper picked if perhaps Peter were instead picking dill pickle pike.” My first youthful...
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Weather Permitting
Author’s note: I penned this story several weeks back, right after my son RJ & I came out of what (as can be seen in the photo above of RJ kayaking into camp) after a very wet start, turned out to be a great 4th of July weekend in...
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Halfway To Bulletproof
*Author’s Warning: Darkness lies ahead. It’s a place in my life. The part I show no one. Not a place that I seek. Just a trail I end up on. A black that finds me. A dark place where I go. Unexpectedly sometimes. It’s a part of me now....
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