Recent content by yknpdlr

There are certainly areas of the Adirondacks where this is true. When you encounter such a magnetic anomaly, it usually does not last for very far. That is when you switch to natural backup clues to navigate, sun, stars, watch cloud movement, terrain association with your map, etc. It is a...

My canoe race partners and I for many years have enjoyed paddling the "Cannonball-90", completing the entire Adirondack 90-mile race route all within a single 24 hour period. We like to begin in Old Forge at the stroke of midnight so that we finish about 18-19 hours later while the sun is...

Part 1: it was never my intent to besmirch any religious faith. Just to point out some strange legends (to someone who has grown up with deep study in mathematics the physical sciences) . Astronomy has a long history of finding the “truth” regardless of cultural or religious beliefs, some of...

and smoke payote and get high. No thanks, I'd much rather get high on learning and observing how the universe works.

The original forecast from 3 days prior said that my brother's cottage on the Lake Ontario shore north of Watertown, would be the best place to be. Sunday was a bluebird clear day, deep blue sky horizon to horizon. Bummer. Then a pesky warm front developed and traveled faster than expected from...

Your experience would have been 1000x different and so much of a better lifelong memory had you got into the 100% zone. That final tenth of a percent of light from the solar disk is still like a bright flashlight shining upon the entire visible landscape.

The First Aid instructor we sometimes use for my SAR team certs is a professional contractor working for Fort Drum NY army base as a combat medic instructor. A former combat medic himself, he has all kinds of war stories to tell during his teaching that go way beyond the standard civilian...

Here's the best I could do through a high sometimes tinner than other times full cloud deck. If only it could have been yesterday with bright blue sky horizon to horizon. From three Mile Bay on Lake Ontario NW of Watertown.

Yes, street lights will come on. It is always best to get the heck out of town for many reasons.

Backpack Gourmet: Good Hot Grub You Can Make at Home, Dehydrate, and Pack for Quick, Easy, and Healthy Eating on the Trail by Linda Yaffe Really gets you into home dehydrating good stuff. Some may sound a little strange at first, but it is a good lead into what you can do on your own. Hawk...

I have a Swift Cruiser 15.8 that I bought last year. I met Bill at a demo day in Saranac Lake last spring and again in Old Forge a month later where I decided to get one I had a couple of speicial reaquests with the seat and carry yoke. Bill had the boat built and personally delivered it to my...

I felt it in Forestport at 1025. More like the almost familiar sound of the snow sliding off my camp roof as it has been doing lately. But definitely something quite strange about it. My wife, at home15 miles away said the house shook like jelly and it was loud. I remember several years ago...

But I will cocntinue to say that it isn't just the 2.5%, it is a lot more like an infiinite difference if you have ever experienced it. Anything short of 100%, even 99.9% might as well be 0% as far as the difference between that much partial and full total is concerned. Again, it is your own...

That certainly is your choice, but a very few miles travel north to gain an extra 2.5 % will yield a memory experience and story to tell for the rest of your life. Living in upstate NY, surely you can find an isolated quiet rural road that will take you there. You will never reget the small effort.

I've been hoping this since my first trips in the region in the late 1960's and early 1970s. I actually did one time make the trip from Lows to Stillwater with my Hornbeck, hopping via connections (mostly) all on state land. Very wild and beautiful country.