a trail to self discovery...

  The next morning after our Whiteface & Esther adventure in the snow we decided to hit the trail early to hit 2 more peaks. Street and Nye. The weather forecast was not calling for a very night sunny day and we felt these peaks were most appropriate given their lack of views. This was also is one of the few shorter hikes in the Adirondacks to hit 2 peaks so it was a good one to hit before we both had a long drive back to New Hampshire. We arrived at the Loj, where we packed up and hit the trail towards our peaks. We were both feeling awfully sluggish this day but managed to still keep a good pace. The herd path leading to our first peak was quite interesting. At one point near where the trail follows the river uphill we somehow took another herd path off the actual trail. We found our way back to the trail again and continued onward and upward. On our way up to the junction for Nye, it was a constant of wet slick muddy train conditions and lots of crawling over and under of fa...

  "Don't Expect things to happen, it is better to be surprised than to be disappointed." This was Laura and I's first trip to the Adirondacks with no pups! It was so weird. We met up in Vermont and car pooled our way over to NY. We stopped at a few stops in Burlington to obviously taste some good beer, eat charcuterie that had liver pate and tasted like donkeys ass, and shop at Sierra Trading Post. OH & I can not forget the warm cookies! We made it to camp early enough to set up and lounge. We both brought our hammocks where we double deckered them.  Our plans for this trip was to get Esther and Whiteface, then we would grab Street and Nye before heading out of town on Sunday. We are true weekend warriors sometimes. We arrived in shorts and tank tops, but well prepared for mid June snow!  We woke somewhat early to pack and eat breakfast to start our day hiking. We had no idea the weather forecast would lie to us for that day. Luckily we were prepared. The forecast...