{"id":4431,"date":"2011-07-04T08:34:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T12:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2011-07-04T08:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T12:49:33","slug":"anne-labastille-woodswoman-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/07\/04\/anne-labastille-woodswoman-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne LaBastille, Woodswoman, passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anne LaBastille, author, photographer and \u00a0Adirondack guide, passed away on Friday in Plattsburgh. \u00a0\u00a0She was 75.\u00a0 \u00a0LaBastille was born in Montclair, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>LaBastille built a small log cabin on a remote lake near Old Forge in the early 1970s. She earned her guide&#8217;s license and began offering backpacking and canoe trips throughout the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p>She became know as the Woodswoman through a series of books about her experiences living alone with her dogs in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>She was a also prominent environmentalist and served on the Adirondack Park Agency board.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/525384\/-Woodswoman--Anne-LaBastille-dies-at-75.html?nav=5008\">tribute<\/a> this morning, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise credits LaBastille with changing \u201cthe image of women, the Adirondacks and outdoor recreation:\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LaBastille&#8217;s stories and photographs helped reinvent and revive the  guiding profession. She reshaped the image by offering activities such  as hiking, climbing, paddling and birding, and modernized the industry  by offering experiences that went beyond the traditional bait-and-bullet  adventures. She portrayed a softer side of &#8220;roughing it&#8221;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne LaBastille, author, photographer and \u00a0Adirondack guide, passed away on Friday in Plattsburgh. \u00a0\u00a0She was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4432,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}