March has come to the Adirondacks which means it is once again time for the ADIRONDACK BRACKET™, the Almanack’s salute to everything Adirondack. For those of you who missed last year’s exciting tournament, the ADIRONDACK BRACKET™ is a two-week-long randomly determined contest among 68 nouns, expressions, concepts, and whatnot having some connection to life inside the Blue Line.

To jump start our second annual contest we are soliciting from our readers eight of your favorite Adirondackiana to fill four “play-in” spots on the tournament bracket. For the sake of continuity, the top seeds in this year’s bracket will be filled by last year’s final four contestants, namely: Samuel de Champlain, the World’s Largest Garage Sale, Northville/Placid Trail, and—the overall champion of the 2009 Bracket—Stewart’s Ice Cream Shops.

So enter a few of your favorite Adirondack things by way of the comments section below or by e-mail. We will be selecting the bracket entries next Sunday, and posting results, round by round throughout the rest of the month.