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Crane Mountain

Poetry: Sunday Morning Early

July 15, 2023 by Edward Zahniser 2 Comments

Sunday Morning Early

Sitting on the cabin porch
I stare off to Crane Mountain
lording it over Huckleberry
Ridge like a long, slow rivalry
between geological teenagers
until my mind blanks just as,
lifted by the Sun’s early heat,
gentle orographic winds drift
up the valley onto our porch,
where, had I a dog’s nose, I’d
read them like a newspaper.

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Poetry: Crane Mountain Summit, Adirondacks

June 11, 2022 by Edward Zahniser 2 Comments

Crane Mountain Summit, Adirondacks

Steep climbing into more rare air underscores
how what is most immediate takes primacy

You may even suspect an expansive mind
goes before your own like explorers’ scouts

Knowing-ahead was essential to their role,
to evoke the intuitive grounded in experience

Each encounter with the unknown may ape
unlocking our entire panoply of experience

as Beauty and Sanctity chat across disciplines
like circus barkers auditioning for Heaven.

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Forest Rangers Recover Body, Make Rescue at Crane Mtn

January 11, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

forest ranger logoNew York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents throughout New York State. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost, injured or distressed people.

What follows is a report, prepared by DEC, of recent missions carried out by Forest Rangers. [Read more…] about Forest Rangers Recover Body, Make Rescue at Crane Mtn

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Crane Mountain, DEC, Forest Ranger Reports, Forest Rangers, hiking, SAR, Search and Rescue

New State Land Purchase In Warren County Includes Climbing Access

May 13, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Huckleberry Mountain courtesy Open Space InstituteNew York State has acquired 1,263 acres of land in the Warren County town of Johnsburg in the Southern Adirondacks. The parcel includes Huckleberry Mountain, an elongated peak that tops 2,400 feet, with spectacular cliffs on the ridge’s south and southwest face. The parcel is now part of the Adirondack Forest Preserve, and is expected to become part of the Wilcox Lake Wild Forest.

In 1911 Huckleberry Mountain was proposed as a site for a massive dam.

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Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Crane Mountain, DEC, Environmental Protection Fund, Forest Preserve, hiking, Huckleberry Mountain, Johnsburg, Open Space Institute, rock climbing, Wilcox Lake Wild Forest

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