Continuing an unplanned road trip, today’s hike was a 7 mile lollipop loop to the summit Black Mountain, with views of Lake George, located in the Lake George Wild Forest in the eastern reaches of the Adirondack Mountains.
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Unexpectedly finding ourselves in New York on an unplanned road trip, my partner and I decided to do what we do best — hike in the mountains. This would be my first significant hike in New York since the Appalachian Trail in 2016. Wanting to go somewhere new to both of us, we set our sights on the Adirondack Mountains, a roughly 160-mile wide circular dome of mountains in northeast New York. Our target: Cascade and Porter Mountains, two of easiest of the Adirondack High Peaks to summit.
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Today was a mostly lazy day, as I rested and returned to Albuquerque to return home.
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Today, I concluded my hike of the Continental Divide Trail.
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I wasn’t expecting an overly muddy road to be the most prominent feature on my penultimate day on the CDT, but if nothing else, this trail has proven that the trail can’t be predicted.
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