#adirondacks — Public Fediverse posts
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For anyone not familiar with Santanoni and how the state acquired it, there is a large great camp on the property that the former owners essentially abandoned after a young child became lost in the woods and was never found.
It’s not too much of a stretch to think this could happen again with the current state of trails here. There are clear markers at trail junctions to interesting spots but 20 yards beyond the intersections the trail all but disappears into very dense forest.
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Did a quick overnight trip to Fish Rock at the Santanoni preserve in the #Adirondacks. It’s been 20 years since I was last here. Still magnificent but unfortunately the trail crew has not visited in decades either.
DEC should either maintain the trail or remove the signs. Should anyone lacking in navigation skills try this trail they are likely to end up very lost in very dense woods.
*there is boat access to the site so likely they simply don’t care about the trail(s) Yes, budgets too.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertEinstein #Hope #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertEinstein #Hope #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertEinstein #Hope #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertEinstein #Hope #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertEinstein #Hope #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/161669/ Mildred E. McDowell, 95, Stockholm #AdirondackFoothills #Adirondacks #Alcoa #Arconic #Canton #ClarksonUniversity #fishing #Gouverneur #hunting #Massena #NewYork #NorthCountry #Ogdensburg #Potsdam #snowmobiling #StLawrenceCounty #StLawrenceSeaway #StLawrenceUniversity #Stockholm #SUNYCanton #SUNYPotsdam #Sweden #VillageOfCanton #VillageOfMassena #VillageOfNorwood #VillageOfPotsdam
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#A2A - Connecting lands and people across the #Algonquin to #Adirondacks region
"For a resilient, ecologically connected #A2ARegion that sustains a full range of native #wildlife and enhances people’s quality of life for generations to come.
The time to reconnect is now.
Nature cannot survive on isolated islands. Between #AlgonquinPark and the Adirondacks, a crisis of fragmentation is unfolding.
Roads, development, and borders have severed ancient migratory pathways, trapping wildlife in habitat pockets too small to sustain genetic diversity, find food, or adapt to a rapidly changing climate. When we isolate nature, we weaken the very systems that sustain us.
The A2A region is a continental lifeline. As one of the last remaining large-scale, #IntactForest and #wetland linkages in #EasternNorthAmerica, this corridor represents our best opportunity to ensure wildlife can move north–south across the #GreatLakes – #SaintLawrence system.
Our mission is to heal and reconnect these landscapes. We must repair these broken links to restore the interconnected web of biodiversity that sustains the health of our region and the resilience of the entire continent."
Learn more:
https://a2acollaborative.org/#SolarPunkSunday #WildlifeCorridor #PreserveTheForest #ReconnectNature #US #Canada #Biodiversity #Interconnectedness #RestoringNature #NorthAmerica #NatureCorridors
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Hype for the Future 251/284: Hamilton and Essex Counties, New York
Overview — Hamilton County Hamilton County is a notable rural county in the State of New York and the only county of fewer than ten thousand (10,000) residents in the State. Notable communities include the Village of Speculator and the Towns of Arietta, Benson, Hope, Indian Lake, Inlet, Lake Pleasant, Long Lake, Morehouse, and Wells. Lake Pleasant serves as the county seat of the rural county, whose entirety is located firmly within Adirondack Park. Major highways are limited to Routes 8, […] -
Bigfoot remains a moneymaking hoax
Once again, someone has rather uncreatively posed a hairy man prop as an amazing find and put it on display for all the rubes to pay to see.
This time, it’s at the New York State Fair.
Dack
Self-titled Bigfoot expert Charles “Snake” Stuart claims to have found a dead Bigfoot specimen in the Adirondack Mountains in October 2024. A hastily cobbled together website at BigfootRemains.com shows the body. The site also contains a Press Release which details a trail of nonsense that describes the 8ft creature as Neanderthal-human hybrid coined “Dack”. There is sciencey fluff about his technique and the DNA results. He pretends to do a news interview. He wants money for more research. It’s all laughably bad.
There are many reports of Bigfoot in the New York mountains, so the basis for the claim was not extreme (as cryptid claims go). This is very much a pop cryptid example as the story is more about making bank than making history with a scientific find. There is nothing about this that is remotely believable; it’s designed for entertainment.
While I haven’t sought out the Bigfoot community response, I suspect it is overwhelmingly negative. They are pretty serious folk. Oh wait… this just floated in from infamous legit serious Bigfoot guy Matt Moneymaker with the BRFO:
Oh, he’s pissed, poor thing.
It’s likely there will be a few who are so gullible that they think this is real. Nevertheless, it’s getting some publicity so I bet it will be popular. For my own little side show, I hastily cobbled together a history of related cryptid gaffs.
Hank
Before there was Dack, there was Hank. In fact, Dack looks a lot like Hank. Maybe they are related. Hank was a hoaxed body created by Rick Dyer in 2014 made of of latex, foam and camel hair that Dyer and a partner toured around the US charging people $10 a head. According to the San Antonio Express News, they pocketed $60,000 before the jig was up. Dyer had claimed that he had shot the creature in Texas. This was a classic story of “fool me twice” because Dyer was already an established Bigfoot con artist so you were kind of daft if you fell for this a second time.
Rick Dyer and HankGeorgia Bigfoot Body
Dyer and Matthew Whitton claimed to have encountered several Bigfoots in the Georgia woods in 2008. They dragged one huge dead body out and put it in a freezer, releasing a photo to the press. Partnering with well established Bigfoot huckster Tom Biscardi, they held a press conference revealing more photos. Many Bigfoot believers wanted this to be “the real deal” as Biscardi called it. But the hoax was short-lived. When the time came to examine the real body, the fakers bolted and the jig was up. It was a suit with added animal guts. This is the episode Moneymaker cites in his Facebook rant screenshotted above. I think these chuckleheads were trying to pull off another Minnesota Iceman caper, but they were too witless.
Minnesota Iceman
These hoaxes followed a pretty successful gaff that is still discussed today: the Minnesota Iceman. Originally known as the Siberskoye Creature, Frank D. Hansen’s specimen of a hairy ape man encased in ice, made the rounds in the US and Canada in 1968. Hansen’s tale of how he came to have the creature changed repeatedly. It had been found floating as a block of ice off the coast of Siberia (if this sounds like a Scooby Doo episode, that’s because it was), or it shot in Vietnam and transferred to the US, or Hansen shot it himself in Minnesota. The Iceman garnered attention from the founders of cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan Sanderson who visited Hansen’s specimen (still encased in ice) and came away believing it was a real hominid carcass. Heuvelmans even wrote about it as real. The story of the Iceman is wild. Hit the TetZoo site for more. The conclusion is, you guessed it, it was a hoax – a latex prop made to appear like it had been shot in the eye. Creative! The ice did the job of obscuring the details. Clever! However, when government officials came sniffing around, Hansen stated the real body had been retrieved by the owner and he was using a replica prop instead. Convenient.
Step Right Up
There are many other examples of cryptid hoaxes – constructed, dead, or alive – that have been displayed in public for a fee. P.T. Barnum was great at this. He gave us the Cardiff Giant (actually a replica of a fake), and the Feejee mermaid in the mid 1800s. The “real” fake Cardiff Giant was supposedly a lithified giant man whose appearance was a sensation in New York in 1869. Created by George Hull, who spend a large amount of cash to have it constructed, he cleared a tidy profit by the end. Funny enough, a Facebook comment on “Dack” called it the Cardiff Giant 2.0. Eh, that commenter forgot a few examples in between.
The infamous Hodag of the late 1890s was a constructed beast from the Wisconsin woods that was so popular that it became the mascot for the town of Rhinelander. Gene Shepard was a noted storyteller and jokester, it’s unlikely many people believed this mash-up monster was real. Today, the Hodag has his own store and traveling shop that appears at cryptid town festivals.
The Jersey Devil, known in 1785 as the Leeds Devil, was advertised as being live on exhibit at Philadelphia’s Arch Street Museum for 10-cents admission. The “devil” was a cruelly concocted hoax where a kangaroo was painted with fake wings and prodded to jump around. The stunt didn’t save the sad excuse for a museum, which closed.
I’m sure I’m missing some examples. What we are seeing here is the art of the hoax. The audience always forgets that real discoveries aren’t made this way. They want to hope, and get a glimpse of something fascinating. Instead, they either get a rude awakening or they laugh at the joke that they willingly fell for. Maybe that’s worth a dime. But not much more.
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