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The Gateway to the Mighty High Peaks of the Adirondacks

Dan Sandberg paused to glance down where, in between tree shadows, the mid-morning sun reflected the entire range of the color spectrum off the snow. “You know why it does that?” he asked me.

I was about to deliver some … Continue reading →

Snowshoeing in Ricketts Glen State Park, Pa.

One of my three companions offered this question excitedly. We stood halfway down a forested gorge several hundred feet deep, and directly ahead was a series of ice- and snow-covered switchbacks treacherously leading to the bottom. At the bottom was the fulfillment of a promise I made to myself eight years earlier when I first visited Ricketts Glen State Park, Pa. – to stand at the foot of something like an ice god, a frozen 94-foot high Ganoga Falls.

First, though, before the glory, we had to get safely down.

Snowshoeing in the Eastern U.S.: Four Ideal Spots to Visit

You can't blame anyone living east of the Mississippi River for experiencing a little adventure envy. When's the last time an adventure magazine featured a cover photo of a tiny backpacker standing below a backdrop of sky-high Appalachian Mountains or one of those survival shows displaying the harrowing pathways of the Berkshires?