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Entries from February 2008

ADK Almanack’s Seven Natural Wonders of the Adirondacks

February 20th, 2008 1 Comment

Adirondack Almanack has published their list of the seven natural wonders of the Adirondacks. Their list includes St Regis Canoe Area,unnamed Peak, Lake George, AuSable Chasm, OK-Slip Falls, the Finch Pruyn backcountry, and the Barton Garnet Deposit along with their justifications for the feature. They also have a companion list of the seven [...]

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Sky watching

February 19th, 2008 No Comments

Here is a really cool site that allows you to track all sorts of space objects, from comets to satellites. You can input your location and it will tell you how to find these objects in the sky and show you what is visible etc. Check it out. And if you hurry [...]

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Wolf cam

February 18th, 2008 No Comments

The inquiring mind wants to know, just what are the wolves of Ely up to right now? Now you can find out. Check them out on the wolf cam. http://www.wolf.org/wolves/experience/wolfden.asp

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President’s Week Lunar Eclipse

February 18th, 2008 No Comments

From wrgb.com
The last one occurred on August 28th, 2007… and the next one won’t be visible in our area until December 20-21st, 2010, so the upcoming total eclipse of the moon is a sight not to be missed!
Coinciding with the President’s Week vacation that many schools have, you’ll be able to see the eclipse starting [...]

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ADK High Peaks UMP Factoids

February 17th, 2008 No Comments

The Jan/Fed 2008 Adirondac Magazine published by the ADK Mtn Club had an interesting article on the impact of Unit Management Plan adopted for the High Peaks region in 1999. There were some intriguing facts in Fred LeBrun’s article written:

In 1998, the year before the UMP was finalized, there were roughly 150,000 users in [...]

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new design

February 16th, 2008 2 Comments

I like the new design UJ.  Well done.  Hopefully this will allow people to easily add to the site.  Thanks.

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WinterCampers.com site changes

February 16th, 2008 No Comments

Our WinterCampers.com website has been hosted by Yahoo for several years and maintained by Mark. However, as competing time demands have increased for Mark, coupled with increasing Yahoo fees we had to seek an alternative for the web site. We transferred the web site to Dreamhost and re-engineered the site using WordPress. [...]

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