adirondack mountains (n.y.)

Guide to recreation in New York's Adirondack Mountains, presenting fifty hiking, biking, and paddling trips, a trip planner, maps and trail descriptions, and trip times and difficulty ratings.

Presents a geographic portrait of the Adirondack Park, the largest protected area in the contiguous U.S., featuring discussion of 130 topics, and including hundreds of maps, tables, graphs, and illustrations.

People who live and work in the Adirondack mountains are captured in black and white photographs.

Contains articles in which sixteen experienced local fisherman and outdoor columnists share their knowledge of fishing in the Adirondacks and its fringe areas.

Bill McKibben recounts the experiences he had during a three-week walk from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks.

After his mother is severely injured in an accident and his father kicks him out of the house, fourteen-year-old Travis attempts to survive on his own until he meets a guitar maker and some musicians who take him in and help him regain his confidence so that he can try to patch his family back together.

Provides descriptions, illustrations, and photographs of over 130 birds found in the Adirondack area; grouped in the categories of birds of prey, owls, waterfowl, shore and water birds, upland game birds, woodpeckers, swifts and swallows, and perching birds, and includes tips on attracting and photographing birds.

Photographs and text relate the great camps and lodges of the Adirondacks, including Pine Knot, Uncas, Sagamore, Wonundra, and White Pine.