My heart pounded, not from the 2,500 or so feet we had ascended over the last couple of hours, but for the unnerving uncertainty that lay before me. Atop Mount Colden’s false peak, an exposed ...

DEC Forest Rangers conducted multiple wilderness rescues in the Adirondacks last week, including two litter carry-outs and a helicopter airlift. Rangers accompany an injured hiker from the Lake Colden ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORTH ELBA — The state Department of Environmental Conservation is aiming to begin repair work on the Avalanche Pass trail this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AVALANCHE PASS — Hikers hoping to make their way through Avalanche Pass in the High Peaks Wilderness will have to wait. How much ...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (NEWS10) — On Monday evening, New York State Police and DEC Forest Rangers conducted a wilderness rescue on Mount Colden. A solo climber was stranded on the trap dike slide and ...

KEENE, N.Y. (NEWS10) — On Monday evening, New York State Police Aviation and DEC Forest Rangers responded to an injured hiker on Mount Colden. The hiker’s mother called Ray Brook Dispatch and reported ...

A look at the search and recovery operation that took place last week to find missing hiker Thomas Howard, who died during a climp of Mount Colden’s Trap Dike. State Police are investigating whether a ...

A look at the search and recovery operation that took place last week to find missing hiker Thomas Howard, who died during a climp of Mount Colden’s Trap Dike. Hiker Thomas Howard, of Westport, ...

A popular hiking trail in the Adirondacks is temporarily closed after recent storms led to mud and rockslides, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The ...

UPDATE: The hiker who had been missing for nearly a week was found dead Friday morning in the Adirondack High Peaks. ORIGINAL REPORT: A search is underway in the Adirondack High Peaks for a hiker who ...

Around noon on August 9, a 23-year-old hiker from Canada tumbled 40 feet off the highest waterfall in the Trap Dike, a boulder-strewn crevice carved into Mount Colden in the central Adirondacks. The ...