Adventure Travel Photography Blog
After a lovely night at Gifford Woods State Park, I spent the morning hiking on a relatively flat trail around the campgrounds through a forest of maple, beech, yellow birch, white ash and hemlock. I had to rely heavily on the trail markers as the ground was covered with fallen leaves. The path led me across several narrow streams, along a river, and past many moss covered rocks and trees.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!
Ahhh…the sun! I’d almost forgotten what it looked like after a week on the road in soggy weather. I had to spend a few minutes hunting for my sunglasses! Today, I continued my drive south along the east side of Lake Champlain in Vermont. My first stop was in Burlington. Bundled up in jeans, a fleece and windbreaker, I wandered the pedestrian-only streets and browsed the farmers market.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!
What a surprise…I awoke to rain, albeit a sprinkle relative to the last 24 hours. Today I planned to complete a portion of the Lake Champlain Loop, driving from Whiteface Mountain all the way to the Canadian/New York/Vermont border and then south through some of Vermont’s islands in the lake.
Beginning at Whiteface Mountain, I hoped to take the gondola ride for an overhead view of Lake Placid. The chalkboard at the desk indicated a temperature of 46 degrees and visibility of 100 feet. While visibility of 100 feet I great for SCUBA diving, it is far from ideal for mountain top. As a result, I didn’t go. Instead, I snapped a photo of the falls nearby the ski center and navigated north along the Lake Champlain loop to Ausable Chasm.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!