[Rockhounds] Adirondack Mountains Trip Report

[Glenn Wimpee]

Nice report from a nice trip.

 

I enjoyed the link too.

 

Thanks for sharing!



Glenn 




 

> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:57:30 -0400
> From: Kreigh at tomaszewski.net
> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> Subject: [Rockhounds] Adirondack Mountains Trip Report
> 
> I got home tonight, as the sun set, from a 13+ hour drive from NY and 
> am (still) trying to unwind. I'm downloading 22K+ email messages 
> (mostly spam) for the third time (volume crashes computers). Trying 
> (again, #@%$!) to share my trip report...
> 
> We left early last Sunday morning and drove almost 15 hours from Grand 
> Rapids (MI) to Raquette Lake (NY) - bad traffic in Canada - and finally 
> got our tent set up at the Brown Tract Pond Campsite before dark. I 
> can highly recommend the campsite (but you need to take bear 
> precautions).
> 
> Monday we drove about an hour to Garnet Hill, near Ruby Mountain, to 
> collect at the Hooper Garnet Mine. The local ski resort allows parking 
> for the mine and the other public lands hiking trails. I brought down 
> two small pack loads of garnet specimens down the half mile hike from 
> the mountain top mine. It was a step above collecting at the nearby 
> Barton Mine for a fee.
> 
> Tuesday we hiked to various waterfalls. I was camping with one of my 
> sisters, who climbs mountains for a hobby.
> 
> I injured my back the week before the trip (enlarged disk) and had to 
> limit my activity. Wednesday we hiked from Brown Pond to Raquette Lake. 
> My sister went on to a local mountain and had a knee problem.
> 
> Thursday we decided to limit our activity, avoid the rain, and try to 
> find the Opalescent River, where Labradoirite can be collected. We 
> found one specimen down-stream in the Hudson River, but did not find 
> access short of a 7 mile hike (one way).
> 
> But Thursday did find Tahawus; 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahawus,_New_York. It was a _very_ good 
> day collecting. I regret not making a second trip; my back is still 
> very sore from what I carried out.
> 
> Friday we visited the "Great Camp" Sagimore, and learned about where 
> the words 'vacation' and 'recreation' came from. I highly recommend 
> the tour. We share the 'commons' as we experience the 'wilderness' 
> during our collecting trips. The nominal fee was wel worth the hours of 
> the tour.
> 
> We all need to learn from from the experiment of the Adirondack 
> Mountains. The NY constitution preservers the pard as wilderness 
> forever. If there is a bigger protected park I am not aware of it.
> 
> I had a great collecting trip. I have had much to think about. It has 
> been a great vacation! I got to escape the normal and do something very 
> different.
> 
> Kreigh
> 
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