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Skiing | Running | Hiking | Biking Paddling | Triathlon | Fitness | Travel FREE! JANUARY 20,000 CIRCULATION COVERING UPSTATE NEW YORK SINCE 2000 2015 CAMERON PARRY OF SARATOGA SPRINGS IN HIGH PINES GLADES AT GORE MOUNTAIN ON DEC. 13. PHOTO BY TAYLOR MORRISON 12 Reasons to Check Out Visit Us on the Web! AdkSports.com Facebook.com/AdirondackSports Six Adirondack Ski Areas CONTENTS By Jeff Farbaniec 1 Alpine Skiing & Snowboarding he Adirondack region is home to a wide variety, from until 9pm), and flexible four-hour passes make it easy. Maple destination resorts to local learning hills. Large or small, Ski Ridge features a variety of trails on approximately 300 12 Reasons to Check Out each ski area has its own unique trails, programs and Six Adirondack Ski Areas T feet of vertical. character. Here are 12 reasons to check out six of my favorite Family-Friendly – Under the same family ownership for 53 3 Around the Region News Briefs Adirondack ski areas. years, Maple Ski Ridge provides an ideal environment for fami- lies to enjoy snow sports together. The Snow Sports School 3 From the Publisher & Editor GORE MOUNTAIN Nine Sides of Four Peaks – With over 100 trails and glades, has added more multi-week programs for this year, including CALENDAR OF EVENTS 4-7 a 2,500-foot vertical drop and nearly 450 skiable acres, Gore walk-in lessons. Adult lessons and children’s lessons can be January to March 2015 Events is New York’s largest ski area. But what really sets Gore apart scheduled for overlapping times so parents can learn to ski or 9 Cross Country Skiing is the variety of terrain available, from quiet, natural snow snowboard at the same time as their kids. And seniors aged 70 and over ski for free! Go to: mapleskiridge.com. So You Don’t Like Winter? trails on the North Side, to intermediate cruisers on the lower mountain, to black diamond expert trails like Rumor and Lies MCCAULEY MOUNTAIN Let It Go… And Let It Snow! that are among the steepest in the east. Seven distinct terrain 230 Inches of Snow – That’s the average annual snowfall 11 Athlete Profile pods allow skiers to spread out, which means lift lines are rare at McCauley Mountain, in Old Forge. Located in the snow- Fat Biking with and the trails are relatively uncrowded. belt region of the western Adirondacks, McCauley benefits Shawne & Janay Camp Glades – Gore Mountain was one of the first eastern ski from frequent lake effect snowfall. If you want to ski powder, areas to develop gladed terrain for its skiers, and now boasts McCauley is one of your best bets. 13 Snowshoe Hiking nearly 30 named glades on its trail map. Skiing the trees offers $12 Crazy Fridays – McCauley Mountain offers one of the Big Pisgah Mountain: challenge, adventure, diverse terrain, and the opportunity to best deals in skiing – $12 lift tickets every Friday throughout A Bushwhack Vista in the find untracked natural snow in quiet woods. Every one of Gore’s the season, excluding holidays. Even at full price ($30 adult Hudson Gorge Wilderness seven terrain pods offers opportunities for glade skiing. Lower lift tickets on weekends), McCauley is a bargain with 21 trails, mountain glades like Otter Slide and Chatterbox feature gentler a 600’ vertical drop, and fantastic views of the Fulton Chain 14-17 RACE RESULTS terrain in open hardwoods. Upper mountain glades are typically of Lakes. Experts will enjoy Helmer and Olympic, two of the Top Finishers in 20 Events steeper and tighter, but often shelter caches of untracked pow- black diamond runs accessed from the top of the double 18 Non-Medicated Life der days after a storm. 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SIGN UP TODAY Sign up by December 12, 2014 and you’ll be automatically entered to win a 2015-2016 (518) 877-8788; [email protected]; AdkSports.com SKI3 season pass and brand new Rossignol Skis or Snowboard. Sponsorship opportunities are available www.AdkSports.com JANUARY 2015 3 AROUND THE REGION News Briefs ADK Presents Winterfest The gathering of competitors will occur Thursday, Feb. 5 at 6pm in the Herb Brooks Arena, and will feature a keynote address by 1994 US figure skating Olympian, Karen Courtland-Kelly, of Lake LAKE PLACID – Adirondack Mountain Club will Placid. Competition starts Friday, Feb. 6. be hosting Winterfest, part of National Winter Now in its 35th year, the Empire State Winter Games will feature a mix of traditional winter Trails Day on Saturday, Jan. 10, from 10am events including adaptive races, with a sprinkling of sports that have been introduced in recent through the evening, at Heart Lake Program years. Events will be held in Lake Placid, Wilmington, Saranac Lake, Paul Smith’s College Visitors Center in Lake Placid. ADK’s Winterfest is a Interpretive Center (snowshoeing), and Tupper Lake (women’s ice hockey). Athletes, families and free, family-friendly event with the goal of helping participants discover the many forms of winter spectators can use the website for event details, updates, and all event results. For lodging, visit recreation. Visitors can check out and participate in winter activities, demo snowshoes and cross lakeplacid.com. The Empire State Winter Games are a community-organized event, courtesy of country skis, enjoy live music and food. This includes telemark lessons, ski waxing clinics, Nordic a partnership between ROOST; towns of North Elba, Harrietstown, Brighton, Wilmington, Tupper ski workshops, guided snowshoe hikes, ice skating, a ski race, curling, a kid’s activity area, and Lake and Jay; villages of Lake Placid, Tupper Lake and Saranac Lake; Essex and Franklin counties; family scavenger hunt. Local retailers and national gear vendors will have tents with equipment Olympic Regional Development Authority; and state senator Betty Little. to demo and purchase. Winter Trails Day is a nationwide event, allowing children and adults the opportunity to try snowshoeing and cross country skiing for free, with the goal of helping participants discover these DEC Seeks MTB Trail System in Moose River Plains winter sports and their many benefits. Approximately 11,000 participants in 100 locations will get ALBANY – The NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation is seeking comments to amend the out on the snow this year on January 10 in the 20th annual Winter Trails Day. ADK’s Winterfest Moose River Plains Wild Forest Unit Management Plan to improve its mountain bike trail system, activities will be free of charge thanks to the generosity of sponsors and partners. regional director Robert Stegemann announced Dec. 5. The 2011 UMP called for DEC to create a Adirondack Mountain Club, founded in 1922, is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated working group consisting of mountain bikers, local governments, and interested parties to develop to protecting the NYS Forest Preserve, other wild lands and waters through conservation and a comprehensive mountain bike plan for Moose River Plains,” said director Stegemann. “A meeting advocacy, environmental education and responsible recreation. For more info, call (518) 523-3441 of stakeholders in July 2013 resulted in DEC contracting with IMBA to create a mountain bike trail or visit adk.org. system concept plan, which has been completed.” The next step in the process is to consider an amendment to the UMP. Adirondack International Mountainfest DEC is initiating a public review to determine which elements of the concept plan to adopt in a UMP amendment, which will also define how a mountain bike trail system will be imple- KEENE VALLEY – The 19th annual Adirondack International Mountainfest mented on the ground.