Outdoors

Hiking enthusiast Melanie Wood shares three of her favorite Southern Tier trails to hike as she trains to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail.

With stunning photos and thoughtful prose, a local business owner chronicles her journey as she prepares to thru-hike the Adirondack Trail.

Sky Moss shares how he's been spending his summer, and with whom.

Jim Pfiffer loves trees. Even claims to speak to them. Here he shares a letter from a tree about climate change.

Outdoor and nature enthusiast Jim Pfiffer remembers the Flood of 1972, and shares how we can protect the Chemung River AND our communities.

Local outdoor nonprofit shares community efforts to clean up the Chemung River and protect a Southern Tier environmental jewel.

Upstate Geechie's Sky Moss kicks off May and Be Kind to Animals Week with a column about his best friend, Harley.

Sky Moss celebrates the joys of an upstate New York winter in the Southern Tier.

beware! Cross-country skiing can get d-icy! I recently suffered a close-call while cross-country skiing at the Community Park in Big...

I returned to Watkins Glen State Park after more than 40 years. What on God’s green and “gorge”-ous earth had kept me away for so long?

We live in a relatively rural community. Country roads capillary off a “main” artery.

This month we are featuring photographs taken by Michael Bankston of Corning.

Every community has its hidden gems – those cool places very few people outside of those who live there actually know about.

Mid-January for me means spring is coming. I love to grow food, flowers, herbs and everything else. Growers anxiously await the mail...