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Outdoors

Is the rail trail safe?

SARANAC LAKE — David DeGirolamo was driving into Saranac Lake from Ray Brook on Sept. 1 when he stopped at the Adirondack Rail Trail crosswalk at Fowler’s Crossing to let five kids on bikes cross state Route 86. The car coming the other way from town stopped to let them cross. The ...

‘We keep going’

PAUL SMITHS — If you ask Archie and Piper Marlow, ages 7 and 8, what they did over their summer break, you’ll hear about their most recent adventure — hiking all 46 High Peaks. Piper, Archie and their father, Josh, didn’t necessarily set out to do all the peaks. Last summer, they ...

First snow of season falls on Whiteface Mountain summit

WILMINGTON — Wes Poe looked into the camera, flashed a thumbs-up, said “Sept. 8th” and took off on his skis across extremely thin snow cover on the deck at the summit of Whiteface Mountain. On Sunday, Sept. 8, Poe, Brayden Olden, Brenna Towne and Sasha Baker — all 20- and 21-year old ...

Kayaking a placid Mirror Lake

LAKE PLACID — As its name suggests, Mirror Lake should be smooth as glass. While theory doesn’t always match with reality, the lake sure lived up to its name around daybreak on Wednesday, Sept. 11. As the planets and stars slowly drifted away in the salmon skies above, there was not ...