AS I HAVE WRITTEN MANY TIMES, in decades of leading expeditions into the wilderness ranging from days to months, I…
ALONG WITH NEIGHBORING PENNSYLVANIA, New York State is the epicenter of tick-borne illnesses in the U.S. Outdoor publications, including this…
LATELY I HAVE BEEN SPLITTING my time between the Adirondacks and the Gulf Coast of Florida. While these areas are…
IN MANY OUTDOOR SPORTS equipment malfunction or misuse is a major cause of injury. This is generally not the case…
THIS COLUMN’S TITLE is one of the pithy aphorisms I learned from my medical school surgery professor, the acclaimed trauma…
“SHOCK” is one of those terms that has a very precise medical definition, but is thrown around imprecisely in casual…
A FEW YEARS AGO, while attending a running camp at Lake Tahoe, I had my first introduction to mountain biking.…
WITH SUMMER ON THE HORIZON thousands of children are getting ready to head to some type of camp. New York’s…
ONE OF MY GOALS in this column is to keep readers up to date on new developments that affect backcountry…
Adirondoc – 2018, January/February There are few diseases diseases as uniformly fatal as rabies. Although very aggressive symptomatic treatment has…