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 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘camping’
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 [...]