Bushwhack Jack's Tracts

I’ve written in the past about three people who I’ve been fortunate enough to have as mentors. A fourth, Tap Tapley, doesn’t qualify only...

Last January, I penned a column on an experience I had at SUNY Cortland with the woman of my dreams. ( https://tinyurl.com/3wa3cntn )...

There was an excellent letter to the Enterprise last week from a writer in Remson lamenting that too many aspiring forty-sixers put more...

Not counting Linda Leydon, who I kissed in the back of the bus in 3rd grade. And Crystal Waters, who I sent a love letter to when my...

Back in my day, the 1970s, I didn’t have to walk through snow uphill both ways to school, but I’ll tell you what, backcountry skiing was...

On these subzero winter days reading is sometimes wiser than going outdoors. A reflection of my age, no doubt. To ward off cabin...

The compass has been around for over 2,000 years and is a simple device. If you put a sliver of magnetized metal on a small piece of wood...

Every year, ten or so NCCC veterans of the college’s 33-day fall expedition would plan and then go on a two-week winter expedition. It...

Recently, I heard from my college friend Jim Glover, a regular reader of my column and who drops me an email every once in a while. Jim...

When I woke up Sunday morning hoarse, and with a sore throat, I knew why: on Saturday Phyliss and I had gone to the Syracuse University...

I spent my early years in rural Locust Valley, Nassau County, which though only thirty miles from Manhattan, seemed like a hundred. Our...

As I cruised Facebook the other day I saw a post about Lower Saranac Lake and the efforts by environmental groups to have the lake’s...

If you were a boy growing up in the 1950s you loved at least three things: rock and roll, cars, and rock and roll songs about cars. If...

There’s a great deal of head-scratching going on regarding solitude and its role in Wilderness. It appears that if some people have their...

While the original Woodstock Music and Art Festival was revered for its aura of Peace, Love, and Music, Woodstock 99 was characterized by...

Fifty-five years ago, the greatest musical event of the Boomer generation – perhaps of all time – occurred: The Woodstock Music and Art...

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom During the downpours of the last week I thought I’d use the time to scan my Great Aunt’s...

The sixties Journalist Tom Brokaw defined the sixties as the years between 1963 to 1974. This is appropriate, as the years are...

I had a rude awakening last week: I realized I’m not as young as I used to be. It started last Thursday when I was invited by Adirondack...

Mark Twain said “An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.” In which case my trip to Japan certainly qualifies. I’ve worked in a...