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FacebookBack in the cabin after five wet days camping
five and a half miles back in these wildlands—
beside the long shifting beaver meadow kept open
since the loggers left their flooded “flowed land”
and its rotted log dam gave out soon afterward
—the pungency of wet wool drifts to the corners
of the front room as the fresh fire kicks up
when someone picks up your wet pack
whose surprising weight pulls them off balance
to tell us how what we don’t know while walking
can always come clear later like the brook trout’s
—you hope—first tentative tugs on your fly line
ground-truth the atavism of the limbic brain
to send you back to the city renewed
like Antaeus as maybe your father once said
while he taught you backpacking’s rudiments.
View Arts Center in Old Forge has announced a Spring Ladies Night, set for March 28th from 6:30 to 9 pm.
The 26th Annual Conference on the Adirondacks has been set for May 22nd and 23rd, at the Conference Center in Lake Placid.
Barred! IV, The Adirondack Bartender Challenge presented by 
Melissa Otis’s book Rural Indigenousness: A History of Iroquoian and Algonquian Peoples of the Adirondacks (Syracuse University Press, 2018) takes a look at indigenous and settler interactions in the Adirondacks.
The Para-Bobsleigh World Championships are set to take place at Mt. Van Hoevenberg’s combined bobsled/luge/skeleton track on March 30-31, 2019.
Hot chili and hot music will be celebrated at the 28th Annual Bands ‘n Beans event to be held at Fort William Henry Conference Center in Lake George on Sunday, March 31, from 2 to 7 pm.
The remains dislodged from an 18th century military cemetery at a Lake George construction site will, in all likelihood, be reinterred on the grounds of Fort George Park, say Village officials.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents in the Adirondacks. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost, injured or distressed people from the Adirondack backcountry.
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