The Adirondacks – Flung

Global Warming Plays Havoc with Maple Syrup Season

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:19:12 +0000

The Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York are blanketed with a forest that has been left largely untouched over the centuries. That forest is dense with sugar maple trees—the best kind from which to extract the sap that gets made into maple syrup–and long before Europeans settled on this continent, Native Americans established the process for extracting sap from the maples and turning it into that delicious syrup that so perfectly accompanies our breakfast pancakes today. The ancient maple syrup […]

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Winters Are Warming in the Adirondacks

Sarah Stodola — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 20:18:07 +0000

During each of the past two winters, I headed up to White Pine Camp in the Adirondacks, near Saranac Lake, in late February or early March. Each time, the lack of snow on the ground was impossible to ignore. It got me looking into how climate change is affecting the area…

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Camping Better: A Bell Tent Adventure

Sarah Stodola — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:56:41 +0000

Throughout my twenties, I went camping every so often, always the tag-along of someone who had all the gear. It was usually for just a night, somewhere within a couple hours of New York City by car. When I met my now-boyfriend of six years, the tag-along scenario became a more permanent one, and I gradually began contributing to the enormous box in the basement full of tents and camping showers and folding chairs and battery-powered lights. Along with building […]

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