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From Adirondack Day Hikes: Pine Orchard by Barbara McMartin reprinted in Adirondack Sports and Fitness, June 2000. “Pine Orchard Trail begins on private land in James Flater’s front yard leads to a knoll with an unusual history. A very old road that traversed the knoll dates back to the early nineteenth century. Parts of the forest [...] When I was a teenager we had a long reasonable steep hill behind my parent’s house infrequently used by snowmobiles. They cruised it just enough that we had a packed run that could be run for ~1 mile if one was brave enough to tack on the section that went through the woods [...] We got a set of snowshoes for Eric and Sunday we finally had the necessary combination of enough snow and free time to take them out. Sometimes the brush tripped him up but for the 1st time on snowshoes he did really well. We stopped off and checked out the fort/hut that Eric and I built in [...] In December Eric and I made 18 fire starters. While these fire starters are a little heavy for backpacking they work fine for canoe camping or casual camp fires. I had some left over paraffin so I used the rest of the paraffin. The ingredients: paraffin and shavings or sawdust. My [...] What does your desktop look like? My looks like this….. My desktop picture was taken this summer on western end of Lows Lake early in the morning as we sought the portage trail to the Oswegatchie River. Eric hit the big ‘5′ and in celebration we held a bowling party at King Pin Lanes. It was wild! We had three lanes going – the kids, the young teens and the adults. It took some encouragement and practice but after a few trips the kids were doing fine. Eric [...]
Staples offers a quick, cheap book binding service so once again I collected the postings from calendar year 2007, printed them out and got them bound. In case one of my kids wants to read them sometime….. |
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