Adirondack Canoe, New York, 1996

"'If there is one kind of work which I detest more than another' [wrote a Boston preacher in 1869], 'it is tramping.' But, he [went] on, 'in the North Woods ... you do all your sporting from your boat. ... This takes from recreation every trace of toil.' So the stampede to the Adirondacks began."

—Text from "Adirondack High," June 1998, National Geographic magazine

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Adirondack High," June 1998, National Geographic magazine)