LOCALadk Magazine

Spring | LOCALadk On The Cover: Rafting the Hudson Photo By: Melody Thomas of Adirondack Rafting Sections Features 8 Northern Forest Explorers Up & Comer By Jack Skiff 16 Tales of an Adirondack Broker By Roby Politi 20 How do you Measure Passion? By Matt Young 24 Thin Blue Lines By Eric Adsit 30 Fiddlehead Ferns By Lisa Densmore 36 Casting for Trout By Anne Brewer 39 Yoga and Nature By Mim Franz 42 Epic Journey: Africa By Bethany Garretson 5 Spring Cleaning 6 Who's Who 9 Message from the DEC 11 I am LOCALadk 12 What's Happening 18 Pulse - Local Real Estate 22 I am LOCALadk 32 Gallery - Can you spot them? 34 Gear We Use 52 Apres! - Locally Delicious 54 Good Reads Spring Cleaning Welcome to our spring edition of LOCALadk. Boy we weren't kidding with our winter issue when we said, "Cold on the Outside." It has been a very frigid winter with lots of ice and challenging temps and not enough snow for most of us. We hope with this issue you start to feel a little warmer and perhaps even feel as if you have been splashed with water. Spring is on our minds and with that comes warmer days, lots of water and the start of some great events. We have put together, with the help of some very talented and dedicated folks, articles to inspire, tempt your taste buds, make you smile, let you remember, visit new lands, encourage new hobbies and appreciate the small things. Photos that will take you places and allow you to "feel" the subject matter. We also have ads, yes ads, but ads that catch and keep your attention. A lot of thought goes into who we ask to be a part of the magazine and although we need the ads we also really like them and we enjoy helping our clients create fun and effective ads. We would like to say thank you to all the Adirondack Olympians for providing such an exciting winter games and for making us even more proud to live here. A special congratulations to silver medal winner Andrew Weibrecht, and bronze medalist Erin Hamlin. Please continue to enjoy our magazine and to share it with your friends. We encourage you to send comments to the editor. Anne

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