Adventures in the New Wilderness (paperback)Plenty of books have been written about hiking the heavily traveled trails of New Yorks Adirondack Park. This is not one of them. Adventures in the New Wilderness contains essays on the exploration of some little known paths in the High Peaks region of Essex County the ancient, abandoned road between Wilmington and Lake Placid; the old trails around Placid Lake, rarely used by anyone anymore; the tracks up Essex Countys lonely fire tower mountains,