Adirondack Explorer

ADK chief to focus on core mission With you in trying times

New Adirondack Mountain Club Executive Director Michael Barrett said one of his jobs will likely be refining the venerable club’s mission and educating the public about it. He suggested that could mean focusing more on core missions.

“I’d rather do fewer things really, really well than be spread too thin,” he told the Explorer.

Some people view ADK as an environmental advocacy group, he said, while others know it as a hiking club or stewardship and educational organization. The group also publishes a magazine and runs a lodge with a restaurant.

“It scares the heck out of me that I’m a caretaker of a lodge, a restaurateur,

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