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Wild Thoughts Podcast #3: North of Stillwater

September 4, 2023
Adirondack Wilderness Advocates
Enjoyment, Knowledge
Five Ponds Wilderness, Pepperbox Wilderness, Wild Thoughts Podcast

Bill Ingersoll and Scott Daskiewich trade tales about one of their mutually favorite areas: the Five Ponds and Pepperbox Wilderness north of Stillwater Reservoir.

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Planning for a Wilder Pepperbox

April 1, 2019
Adirondack Wilderness Advocates
Protection
Pepperbox Wilderness
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently announced plans to revise the unit management plan (UMP) for the Pepperbox Wilderness, a relatively small and seldom-visited area in the western Adirondacks…
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A Brief History of the Pepperbox Wilderness

March 17, 2019
Bill Ingersoll
Knowledge
History, Pepperbox Wilderness
The Pepperbox Wilderness occupies a little-known corner of the western Adirondacks, a place with few official facilities and some of the lowest visitation levels in the park. Those who have…
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Entr’acte

March 9, 2018
Bill Ingersoll
Enjoyment
Pepperbox Wilderness
Purdy was beginning to struggle in the March snow. We had been striding easily across it for most of the morning, and until the last hour or so it had…
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