Posts Tagged as ‘camping’

19 July 2009

High

The Adirondack High Peaks are the 46 peaks in the Adirondacks that are over 4000 feet high. Or rather, they were, until later surveys showed a couple of the 46 really are less than 4000 feet, and one that wasn’t on the list is higher than 4000 feet. Revising the list would have made too [...]

3 September 2008

Blue Mountain Lake

Back around, oh, I’d guess the late 1920s, my grandfather took my father for a hike up Blue Mountain in the Adirondacks. Forty years later, my father took me up Blue Mountain. Now it’s another forty years…
We’d decided we wanted to go on a camping trip as a family, and at some point we realized [...]

31 August 2008

No Show Summer

It was the Summer of Love. In the tennis sense.
In early June, I didn’t go with the Binghamton Morris Men to the Sudz, because of family obligations that weekend.
A couple of weeks later we didn’t go to the Old Songs Festival as we usually do, because we weren’t particularly enthralled with this year’s performers and [...]