The Ultimate American Summer Adventure? Exploring the Adirondacks by Canoe.
I've returned each year since and grown marginally more at ease in Matt's small, secret corner of the Adirondacks. It helps to know somebody who's walked those woods his whole life. But what about the visitor who doesn't?
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