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Today was a beautiful day for hiking … I decided to hike up Snowy Mountain, just shy of being a 4000 footer. 7.5 miles round trip, crazy steep for the last half mile. View from the fire tower Indian Lake … Puffer Mountain and pond, Chimney Mountain in the distance. We’ve hiked them before...

Back to back beautiful days were excellent reasons to eat our boats out onto the water. We went and paddled a section of the Racquette River on Saturday (10+ miles round trip) and today we paddled on Mason Lake, one of our favorites. Racquette River photos Mason Lake...

This is one of our favorite hikes in the southern Adirondacks. The trail follows an old woods road much of the way, going by Bennett Lake, Middle Lake, and finally Murphy Lake. There’s a lean to at Murphy which makes it a destination for weekenders. Middle is our favorite with a number of...

Today was a perfect day for our first time out on the water this year. We paddled a section of the West Branch of the Sacandaga River. Lots of songbirds singing away.

Our string of nice weather continued today so I decided to tackle Hadley Mountain to the Fire Tower. I have done this hike a bunch of times including the winter. It’s not long at 3.5 miles round trip but the elevation gain going up is 1545 feet in 1.75 miles. Since today was a holiday there...

We just came back after a 4 day hiking & camping trip in The Adirondacks. We prefer quiet ponds as compared to the High Peaks region, which is very busy. We saw super cool reflections in ponds, a surprising nice sunset, plenty of mushrooms and we did some star gazing. A colorful sunset after a...

Today was a prefect day for hiking, no humidity, no bugs, temps in the low 60s. A welcome change from our weather over the past few weeks. And a welcome chance to get outside and resume activities after a short bout with COVID19 (yup, we were both exposed and experienced mild symptoms that...

After one of our wettest Julys on record, it rained hard and long on August 1st. So today I thought I’d see how the rain had affected the stream that runs out of Broomstick Lake, a small lake not too far from home. Usually the stream has barely any water in it at this time of the year. Not so...

All summer we have been longing to see the Milky Way and stargaze an evening. So about 2 weeks ago in a snap we packed up our camping gear and headed to the Adirondacks. Hiking the high peaks is very popular now, so we decided to do a hike around numerous quiet and beautiful ponds, almost all in...

Three days, two nights in the Whitney Wilderness in the northern Adirondacks on Little Tupper Lake. Hard to imagine that this entire area was once a wealthy family's "playground" (the Whitneys still own property on a small portion of the lake). Awesome weather, calm waters, eagles, beavers, &...

Monday was a beautiful day so we decided to climb Chimney Mountain (near Indian Lake) ... short but steep (about 1000' in a mile). 360 degree views at the summit. start of the trail ... up we go ... more up ... rock formations ... we're about a 1/4 mile from the actual summit here...

We hiked the Botheration Pond Loop trails today in the Siamese Ponds Wilderness. Temps in the low 60s, some breezes, mix of sun and clouds, and the bugs weren't too bad overall. Early trail some pretty tall trees along the trail the trail as we approached Old Farm Clearing ... this was the...

On Thursday, 5/21, I chose to hike to Wilcox Lake in the southern Adirondacks. Another beautiful day. No bugs on the trail, black flies were swarming at the lake with a few landing to bite. first stream crossing over Tennant Creek (on an old snowmobile bridge) more old boardwalk through a...

The weather has been steadily improving and I figured it was time to get out and try and beat the black flies ... so on Tuesday 5/19 I hiked into Murphy Lake from Pumpkin Hollow Road ... Some really nice trail work that replaced some really old wooden boardwalk through a wet area an example...

Today we took a hike to Puffer Pond in the Central Adirondacks, 4.7 miles r/t. Sunny and cool (mid-40s) with some breezes at the “pond”. Some of the trees near the “pod” were starting to bud out but for the most part it’ll be a couple weeks before things really start greening up. There was...

I haven't climbed this little gem in a few years ... Hadley Mtn in the southern Adirondacks. Microspikes all the way up and back down. Sorry, no orange @scatman like kilt ... I think it would have clashed with my orange pack. trail was hard packed ... if you ventured off the trail you sunk...

It was a sunny day, temps in the mid 50s, & so we decided to head north to Lens Lake for some paddling. Lens Lake is slowly turning into a bog at its northeastern end, much of the "islands" are actually floating bogs with pitcher plants, sundew, some grasses, and an occasional tamarack. Water...

Visited a local DEC wildlife area close to our home ... on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Loop trail around the marsh through the forest with some long bridges across portions of the marsh. trail head sign First view of the marsh ... periscope in the marsh grasses ... definitely kept his eye on...

Car camping at Lake Harris, Newcomb, NY, late May 2017. Campground had just opened. We canoed the lake and the Hudson River. evening paddle on calm waters signpost on the Hudson River ... take a right and you can head to NYC, take a left and you can head to Mt. Marcy (Lake Tear of the...

Adirondack High Peaks winter snowshoe ... heading up to Gothics