Forbidden
When the Laws of Man and Nature Collide in the Mountains The year was 1983. July, to be exact, as a young man’s lone figure eased into an overgrown Adirondack trailhead parking lot and turned off his truck’s engine. He did a quick personal pat down; keys, pocket-knife,...
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National Hunting Blind Set-Up Day
If that’s not an official holiday, it oughta’ be! Well! This is it! Saturday is October 1st. The time of year every hunter has been waiting for. In New York State, October ushers in the opening of bow season, fall turkey and duck hunting, as well as most small...
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Captain Blue’s Crew
A Cancer Fighting Canine’s Morning Paw Patrol Photo Shoot Featuring: Captain Blue As folks may or may not know by now, our Monroe Paw Patrol family recently received some very devastating news. Captain Blue, our canine Paw Patrol Leader, was diagnosed with lymphoma. Captain Blue is only six and...
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‘Twas the Last Day of Goose Season
Sometimes the Christmas spirit finds a hunter’s heart in its own special way ********** New York State’s early Canada goose hunting season runs from September 1-25th. At the beginning of every fall hunting season, I have always looked forward to it. Until last year. For the past ten years...
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Larceny on the Lake
The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Duck The day dawned with a twist. A hunter’s life lesson hard learned as my Zen Boat canoe silently sliced morning mist. I jumped a pair of wood ducks along the shore to my left as my hand painted Zen Boat...
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Captured Canoes
The 2022 Adirondack Canoe Classic AKA: “The 90 Miler” An Adirondack Outlaw Photo Chronology ********** I suspect that being in the right place at the right time is one of the tricks of being a photographer. I also suspect that sometimes it’s by design, and sometimes by chance. I...
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Baptized at Bull Rush Bay
Ari Rae Marra’s Adirondack Outlaw Christening Bull Rush Bay 2022 was not only our Monroe family’s 50th anniversary camp celebration, it was also an Adirondack Outlaw camp celebration as Ari Rae’s first. Plans and preparation for this big event began late last fall. The NYSDEC built a brand spanking...
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Advanced Biology
OR “THE GREAT RAT CAPER OF 1981” It was fall, 1980. My friends and I had somehow managed to survive our way to senior year at Saranac Lake High School. I wasn’t a great student in high school. I never really studied or applied myself. I copied...
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“Middle Saranac 1”
A Middle Saranac Lake lean-to look-back collection of memories, artifacts, legends and photos. My family first visited Middle Saranac Lake’s site 63 Bull Rush Bay in 1972. The photo above depicts the lean-to that was there by that time. It quickly became the cedar log summer home...
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The River Calling
Beneath forgotten trestle’s flow Rainfall bounty, melted snow Where heron, bass, and beaver go I can hear The river calling Misted memory’s mountain home Rocky rapid’s rippled foam Long lost laughter skipping stones I can hear The river calling We swam, we fished Wind’s whispered wish Wild water’s kiss...
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