Blue Roads to Hiking Trails

We left the Adirondacks and Lake Placid area this morning. Our next stop in New York is “the city”. However, one of the main reasons we want...

Monday is Gene’s birthday. Since we are going to be traveling on Monday, we decided to celebrate on Sunday. He thinks he’s old. In the schem...

From time to time you just have to get the work done. Today was the day. I spent my day vacuuming, dusting, doing laundry and I even ironed ...

Mt Van Hoevenberg We ventured up another mountain today. This one was a little shorter than the last one we tried to climb. The trail w...

Ski Runs on Whiteface Mountain Today we used the last activity on our “see it all” ticket. We rode the Gondola to the top of Little Whi...

Ski Jumps The Olympic Jumping Complex was included in the “see it all” ticket we purchased a couple weeks ago. The complex is opened ev...

This highpoint episode was very disappointing for me. This was like the culmination of several things recently which have pushed me to the i...

Mt Marcy through the trees The highest point in New York rises to 5,344 feet and dominates the High Points Region of Adirondack Park. T...

One of the reasons we find ourselves in the Adirondacks is because the highest point in New York is here—Mount Marcy. Some people collect st...

Whiteface Mtn from Ski Resort at the base The sun came up on a big blue sky this morning so we threw our stuff in our packs and headed ...

We had originally planned to hike up Mount Marcy, New York’s high point, as a backpacking trip. After studying the map and guidebook, we hav...

We went for another hike again today. This time we took a short 2 mile one way hike which passed two ponds and ended at a third. At the firs...