Download or read book What s with Those Adirondack Mountain Names written by Robert Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Mount Marcy and Mars have in common? What is a Dippikill? Was Lyon Mountain named for the French city, the king of the jungle, or a person? What mountain receives its name from an early Adirondack ornithologist? Which mountains represent famous graduates of Union College and Rensselaer School (now R.P.I.)? Robert C. Lawrence provides the answers to these questions and insight into more than a hundred Adirondack Mountain place names or oronyms in What's With Those Adirondack Mountain Names?The book arranged alphabetically lists the hundred highest Adirondack, Saranac Six, Tupper Lake Triad, and personal choice mountain place names. It provides pertinent information such as elevation, location, and name origin for hikers, tourists, day-trippers, Adirondackers, and Adirondacker wannabees.
Download or read book A History of the Adirondacks written by Alfred Lee Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lexicon of New Formal Geologic Names of the United States 1981 1985 written by Gwendolyn Lewise Werth Luttrell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of the new formal geologic names introduced into the literature from 1981 to 1985 in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Download or read book The Adirondacks written by Paul Schneider and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lyrical narrative history reveals how the love affair between Americans and the Adirondacks--America's first wilderness--has grown and changed over time. 40 photos.
Download or read book Peaks and People of the Adirondacks written by Russell Mack Little Carson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping the Adirondacks written by Thatcher Hogan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-09-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York State’s famous Adirondack landscape is immense, spanning over six million acres of public forests, lakes, rivers, mountains, and private lands. In full color featuring hundreds of detailed maps and photos, Mapping the Adirondacks celebrates it all with the first clear account of the original surveyor who explored and fully comprehended it—Verplanck Colvin. “Everywhere below,” Colvin wrote, “were lakes and mountains so different from all maps, yet so immovably true.”His monumental accomplishment helped motivate the citizens of New York in 1894 to legally protect it for generations to come. As an eighteen-year-old budding travel writer, explorer and surveyor, Colvin began personally mapping a half-million acres of true Adirondack wilderness in 1865. Then, shortly after the state began partially funding his audacious project, Colvin reinvented himself as the “Superintendent" of a “Survey of the Adirondack Wilderness” and hired another equally intrepid surveyor to help—his ever-dependable friend Mills Blake. They extended the scope and granularity of their survey several times, hired hundreds of Adirondack guides and other talented people to assist, and devoted twenty-eight years to the challenge of professionally surveying the Adirondacks. Author Thatcher Hogan has carefully gleaned narratives and illustrations from Colvin’s notoriously dense annual reports and reassembled them with additional historic photographs to chronicle a compelling, true story of rugged exploration. After a novice’s explanation of Colvin and Blake’s surveying terms, the book follows their progress with one hundred of Hogan’s new maps and summit views. The Adirondack landscape remains formidable and fascinating—many of the views are those that Colvin first discovered. Along the way, Hogan uncovers a story of intense ambition, physical hardships, and a weatherproof friendship. The state’s meager investment in their work paid off many times over. Colvin and Blake’s surveys provided New York with the incontrovertible evidence needed to prevail in hundreds of complex Adirondack land disputes. Most significantly, it enabled the state to consolidate and expand its extraordinary Adirondack Forest Preserves—the prized mountains, forests, and waters of today’s beloved Park.
Download or read book Aboriginal Place Names of New York written by William Martin Beauchamp and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountain Names written by Robert Julyan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists the location and height for three hundred of the world's mountains, and tells the stories behind each one's name.
Download or read book The Century Dictionary The Century cyclopedia of names vol II Atlas written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Color Remote written by Erik Schlimmer and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two in the Wilderness written by Sandra Weber and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grab a paperback and join Sandra Weber and her eleven-year-old daughter Marcy for a trek in the Adirondack wilderness. Feel the sensation of climbing mountains, sleeping in open lean-tos, eating wild blueberries, floating like lily pads, and laughing with loons. Add alpine flowers, a bear, and five days of rain, and the result is an appreciation of nature. By the end of the 60-mile trip, mother and daughter also learn to appreciate each other.
Download or read book All Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hiking the Adirondacks written by Lisa Ballard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features the best day hikes and weekend backpacking trips in the mountain wilderness of northeastern New York State. From 360-degree mountaintop views to dramatic waterfalls and pristine ponds, it takes readers to 47 of the most scenic locations, some well-known and others off the beaten path.
Download or read book From Niagara to Montauk written by Cecil R. Roseberry and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York State offers a variety of spectacular natural settings--mountains and valleys, lakes, rivers, and sea and shore. Provided here is the historical and geologic background necessary for the full enjoyment of these scenic pleasures. Both native and visitor alike will appreciate the local lore surrounding our most fascinating scenic localities, and the geologic information will enhance their delight in each panorama. Included are: Niagara, The Ridge Road, The Rock Cities, Allegany State Park, Allegheny Reservoir, Letchworth State Park, Mendon Ponds Park, The Finger Lakes, Harris Hill, Watkins Glen, Enfield Glen, Taughannock Falls, Ithaca College Campus, Mormon Hill, Chimney Bluffs, Montezuma Marshes, Clark Reservation, Little Falls Gorge, Moreland Park, Whetstone Gulf, The Thousand Islands, The Adirondacks, Mount McGregor, Prospect Mountain, Lake George, Mount Defiance, Gore Mountain, Indian Pass, Blue Mountain Lake, Long Lake, Lower Ausable lake, High Falls Gorge, Whiteface, Mount Marcy, Ausable Chasm, Cohoes Falls, The Indian Ladder, Howe Caverns, The Taconic Range, Bash Bish Falls, The Catskills, Wall of Manitou, Kaaterskill Falls, Scenic Chair Lifts, Mohonk and Minnewaska, Sam's Point, Mount Beacon, Storm King Mountain, West Point, Bear Mountain, The Palisades, Ward Pound Ridge, Central Park, Fort Tryon Park, Inwood Hill Park, Bronx Park, Fort Wadsworth, Prospect Park, The Great Sand Barriers, Caumsett State Park, Orient Point, Hither Hills, Montauk Point, Byways and Detours.
Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by New York (State) Forest Commission and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1894 contains a supplementary financial statement covering the period from Oct. 1, 1894, to April 25, 1895.
Download or read book Annual Report written by New York. State. Forset Commission and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
