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    Mud Season Ethics

    I don't know about the ATV bashing, you all traveling here long distances to bag peaks do more to further erode the dwindling natural resources of the nation and increase the strain the local area than a guy on his ATV on the DEC approved trails. Not to mention I haven't seen any ATV's ever...
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    Long Lake to Axton Landing.

    nothing budding here, views should be great, snowed and stuck the other day, monday maybe it was? waters still real high on raquette, should be a fun trip. take pics. http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/press/pressrel/2004/200439.html
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    hiking the Adirondacks

    http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/press/pressrel/2004/200439.html
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    Question about river classification for paddlers

    Oh my god that is funny. thank you. my stomach hurts from laughing. can i print that out and keep it? oh man.RFLMAO:D
  5. J

    How fast do you hike?

    7 people say they pass Pin Pin jr !?!? wow. need hip boots around here the BS is sooooo deep. easy to say for me right? well, I'm on the couch if you need me.
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    Bald Eagle view at own risk

    we have a few around here, saw one last week in brushton, feeding on deer, you seem to miss the major killer of winter deer. cars. more deer are killed here by volvos, navagators and Yukons than we could ever hunt, or coyotes could ever eat. 17 so far since christmas in front of my budds house...
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    Question about river classification for paddlers

    From my boss, a guy who knows rapids. 12 foot waves in the pacific in canoes, and class 4 in open canoes. they are big canoes, but still.....more than i can handle: Class I (Easy). Is the water flowing with a few small waves and perhaps some rocks off to the side? If so, you're probably in a...
  8. J

    Black Fly Season

    you are very lucky. my brother, non passed on, went into anaphalactic shock from black fly bites on the golf course one eyar, he couldn't breathe, his hands swelled up til the fingers were like susages, spread your finger as far apart as they will go, now imagine them still touching. horrible...
  9. J

    Black Fly Update

    I got one today. we stopped to fish and a big fat black fly landed right on my arm. he did not bite me, but I felt he was offensive enough to whack anyway. had a small mini cloud of them around me til afternoon when the wind started really wailing.
  10. J

    Massachusetts Firetowers

    i didn't know mass had mtns......and I went to williams college for one semester, they claim i was in them.:D why one semester? well the ADA can help get you in, being an idiot can get you out faster though:rolleyes:
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    while hiking

    LOL!!:D :D that's great I'm going to use that 8 track line, I'll give credit and a loony each time I do.:p I posted this other places, and one group told me they had parked 4 cars and left them all unlocked at the Wanakena road into high falls a few years ago, they came back out and all the...
  12. J

    while hiking

    I was just asking. I live on St. Bernies street, blue house, upstairs apartment in saranac lake. no dog. no alarms.I work nights an hour away and no one is around from 8pm until 5am, neighbors are all college kids and wouldn't here anything unless it happened after 12 noon. If it makes you...
  13. J

    Notches or Gaps without highways?

    railroad notch is where the old tote road and rail ran on the back side of porter, my great uncle was a road monkey there for one winter, it once had roads in it same as many of the other passes, notches, gaps and cuts listed in the adirondacks. are we looking for passes that never had roads or...
  14. J

    Ny Dogs Must Be Insured And Leashed?

    This looks like a very expensive law for dog owners, and a incredible pain in the butt for no good reason for those of us not living in housing projects in Queens. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A10169 I for one am writing to my senator Betty Little to get it stopped. As peaceful as it...
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    info on the Seward range?

    everything is pretty much at flood stage, poured like heck today and was 44F. they say 68F for sunday, so yeah, it'll be wet. the gate is maybe 1/4 mile past the bridge? my boss just came back from duck hole that way 2 days ago and said ward brook trail is typical muck but the trail along the...
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    Seward - only (Adirondacks) May 1-2

    if you're coming in from coreys and hitting ward brook that way which I am guessing you are, I don't know if the road will be open. the families that have camps in there have let it be known that they would like the gate kept closed at the sping until after memorial day from now on due to what...
  17. J

    Camping on the porch of JBL is trespassing

    So you think that buildings should be allowed in wilderness areas then? why was the JBL left standing by DEC anyway if it can't be used? jsut wondering, never been there, probably can't get there.
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    What is "Wilderness?"

    there is Forever wild land right next to the mall in Saratoga, 45 acres that pataki made part of the Adk Park. drawing a line around an area, declaring it wilderness in and of itself is an act of management. anything mnanged is not wild. especially the Adirondack Park, calling it wilderness...
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    while hiking

    I know lots of people now carry one time use cameras while hiking but many use very expensive cameras and carry pricy binoculars and other gear too. having been mugged and robbed a few times in my life I was wondering how much money everyone carries while hiking? I don't carry any, I leave it...
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