No Exceptions (A Visit from Yellow-Yellow)
Always about the Adirondacks is a pileup of loosely held, emphatically shared rumors. Alongside skiing, climbing, kayaking, and hiking—spreading gossip, and quizzing its sources, is local sport. Each time I return, I’m greeted with stories of varying validity. Once, asking a retired neighbor why this hobby seemed, in our experience, more commonplace among ruralites than city dwellers, she simply shrugged and yawned out: Something to do.