NORTH HUDSON — When Forest Ranger Matthew Adams got 5:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 26 call to join the search for a missing hiker in the Dix Range, it didn’t take him long to realize that the straits were dire. A 58-year-old male from Mechanicville had been in the wilderness for two nights in a ...

SCHROON — A Florida man was found dead in a lean-to in the 44,400-acre Pharaoh Lakes Wilderness in southern Essex County on Tuesday, according to State Police. No foul play is suspected. State Police said they were notified of a missing hiker on the Crane Pond trail around 12:30 p.m. ...

KEENE — My heart pounded, not from the 2,500 or so feet we had ascended over the last couple of hours, but for the unnerving uncertainty that lay before me. Atop Mount Colden’s false peak, an exposed 4,500-foot knob 0.4 miles and a couple of hundred feet beneath the true summit, on ...

KEENE — State Police released the name and cause of death of the person who died while hiking Mount Marcy on Thursday, Feb. 12. Brianna L. Mohr, 21, of Brick, New Jersey, was found near Mount Marcy’s summit the night of Feb. 12 by state Department of Environmental Conservation forest ...

WILMINGTON — The authorities released the cause of death for the skier who died at Whiteface on Wednesday, Feb. 4. An autopsy conducted on Michael E. Vacek Jr. determined his death was caused by blunt force trauma to the chest, presumably from a tree, given where he was found. Vacek, 44, ...

LAKE PLACID — Although spring may feel like it’s eons away, it’s coming, at some point. And in Lake Placid, one of the classic harbingers of its arrival is a chair falling through the ice. For decades, the community has had some fun guessing exactly when the ice will melt, or at least ...