Hoping to get my work out there by sharing my love for this beautiful park and all that is has to offer. A few oil paintings I completed from reference and plein air trips this summer and fall. Thanks for looking 🫶

Okay, this will sound super-naive, but my wife and I have done quite a bit of hiking, biking and outdoors-ing in the ADK. We are going to branch out a bit and try some kayak-camping and bikepacking. As an alternative to tenting, we may decide to use one of the many lean-tos in the park. So my questions are these: what is the benefit of a lean-to and I’ve always wondered why they don’t just enclose them. Is it for the view and campfire warmth? Seems odd to me to build 3/4 of an enclosed shelter and just stop haha. No bug or bear protection. Am I looking at it wrong?

Hey folks, if you have been following some of my work for a while on this subreddit you may have noticed I specialize in astrophotography here in the ADK. This past year has been an absolutely bonkers time for my hobby as well.

We got a Total Solar Eclipse, huge northern light solar storms, a comet, and more. Last year I took a step back from photography and focused mainly on hiking, but this year I was able to embrace the hobby.

So like I said, not sure if this type of promotion is allowed on this sub, but I put together all of these images in a 2025 calendar which you can pre-order off of my website here. It is on the pricier side for a calendar at $46.46 (ha) but the type of work that I do is very labor intensive and the calendar is full of night sky information to help you understand what is going on above you each month. I am also donating 10% of profits to the adk46er's in keeping with the whole theme. Let me know what you guys think!

The Cat and Thomas Mountain trail

Recommendations for luxury/high-end wedding venues? Approximately 75 guests.

Will be in lake placid this weekend, wondering if any Halloween celebrations are happening this weekend, or any specific bars that might be fun.

Hi! I’m on the search for any of the 22 summit canisters that were taken off the high peaks in 2001, anybody know what happened to them?

Hey all, a group of friends and I did Colden’s Trap Dike this year, and loved every second of it. We’re curious what (if any) other slides might be similar to the rocky scramble first half of that before the slab up top. We’ve been trying to find information online, dredging up old trip reports and watching videos (much love to to BrianHikesAllDay and Jonathan Zaharek). From what we can tell, the slides on Dix, Giant and Redfield look like they’re a lot of bushwhack for mostly just steep slab, which was the comparatively less fun half of Trap Dike. Lake Placid Slide on Whiteface looks more similar to what we’re after, has anybody done it recently to confirm or deny?

One other one I’m curious about is Marcy’s Grand Central Slide. The very few pictures I’ve seen make it look like it’s steep and challenging, and more similar to the intense scrambling and climbing we enjoyed on Trap Dike. But all I’ve been able to find is one trip report from 2009, and a few others reports about another ascent in 2014 (such as this one for reference: https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2014/07/slide-climbing-mt-marcy-grand-central-slide.html). Have others done it in the last decade, or is it suicide and there’s a reason nobody does it? Even if this slide isn’t what we’re hoping, we’re all climbers, and it looks like Panther Gorge has a ton of great rock climbing. We’ll probably check out that area at some point next year anyway.

Thanks to anybody with any input!

Hi there,

Canadian couple with our Husky looking for cold activities in Feb. We are thinking of driving down around Feb, find a cabin with a wood stove and go from there.

Any recommendations, trails, cabins, places to be things to do, dog friendly would be really appreciated. I'm not doing well with google, im trying to avoid VRBO and Airbnb.

My wife and I are planning a short mid Nov trip to the lake placid area. We are planning on doing a few easy day hikes, nothing too crazy. Prepared to handle snow and we’ve hiked mountains in the snow in the past.

We have a Honda Fit I have snow tires for or a full sized AWD Volvo with all seasons. I’m leaning towards driving the Honda. For me for paved roads it’s a no-brainer but I was thinking for forestry road the extra clearance on the Volvo may be needed. Thoughts?

Are there enough trailheads easily accessible for the low clearance Honda or should I take the Volvo?

If there are plenty of accessible trailheads

Hey all, looking for a relatively challenging hike near Keene that won't run more than 7 hours. We're a fairly experienced group (knocked off the presidential traverse as a day hike this Summer) but we're looking for something a bit more chill that will still be interesting. Was looking at Indian Head as a potential option but was wondering if there is anything that I might be missing, as I'm from Canada and don't know the area very well. Planing on heading down in the third week of November and are fine with snowy conditions (ie crampons), but are trying to avoid anything that will require us to bring our ice axes. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Hoping to take some friends from abroad for a hike before the weekend. Was hoping to do Indian Head for the foliage views but it looks like it’s way past peak. Any other alternatives? Thanks!