adirondack mountains (n.y.)

Examines the history, geography, landscape, and influence of Adirondack Park, documenting how it became one of the largest parks in the lower forty-eight states and the only one with land evenly divided between protected wilderness and privately owned tracts of land.

A madman stalks the participants of a winter intramural competition at a boarding school in the Adirondack Mountains.

Profiles forty-two hikes in New York's Adirondack Mountains, including directions to trailheads, trail descriptions, GPS coordinates, difficulty ratings, average hiking times, information on fees and permits, and more.

"In the small community of Millers Kill, gossip spreads like wildfire. So when Russ Van Alstyne's wife kicks him out of the house, he figures it's nobody's business but his own - until a neighbor stops by and finds Mrs. Van Alstyne's butchered corpse on the Kitchen floor. To the townspeople and church folk, the murder is proof that the whispered rumors about the police chief and the priest were true. But nothing is as it seems in Millers Kill, where betrayal twists old friendships - and evil waits inside quaint white clapboard farmhouses."--from back cover.

Although the littlest student in his class, thirteen-year-old Baron Braun calls upon the strength and wisdom of his Mohawk ancestors to face both man and beast when he tries to get help for his classmates, who are being terrorized during a school field trip in the Adirondacks.