Adirondack Life

Bonus Days

On Bonus Day 74, Khyber camped with friends at Cedar River Flow. He swam, paddle-boarded, played catch and relaxed by the campfire—even better than Bonus Day 73, spent doing fieldwork along the Boquet River, wading by shore, exploring sandbars, with a leap sneaked off a riverbank.

After about a decade of scaling mountains, paddling lakes and rivers, trekking through rain, snow and ice,

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