Erik Schlimmer has spent 1,300 nights under the stars, hiked nearly 20,000 miles and pioneered a north-to-south trek in the Adirondacks. But his life in the woods began on a soggy note. It was 1985, he was 13 and his family had just moved from Poughkeepsie in New York’s Hudson Valley to tiny Chestertown in the Adirondacks. His new home had no malls, movie theaters or other such diversions that he was used to. His parents sent him to a nearby cam…
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