Month: May 2018

A solo hike? By myself? All alone in the familiar, yet wild Adirondacks? Like…drive up to the Adirondacks and hike by myself? A few months prior to June of 2017 I would have surely found another activity to do locally on a weekend where I couldn’t find hiking mates. But after living in Albany, New York […]

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30 seconds. Maybe it was even less. That is how long we had feeling in our feet if we stood still in the water. Would you wade out into the frigid water of Iceberg Lake (you can probably guess why it has that name)? Would you climb on the chunks of ice floating in the […]

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Curiosity roamed free on Thursday, August 10, 2017. A turquoise blue lake awaited us tucked behind a 6.5 mile hike along a moderately trafficked trail. The Cracker Lake hike gains 1,686 feet in elevation. This was a day of exploration of glacier-like chunks of ice, wild flower filled glacial trickles feeding cracker lake, climbing red […]

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