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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Autumn Trip, 2011

Hello all from lovely Plattsburgh, NY! Right on Lake Champlain and minutes from the Adirondack Mountains (and about 5 hours from home), it’s the perfect place for a mini-weekend vacation, and that is just what I am taking!

I drove up last night after work and this morning I headed out bright and early to get to the mountains! I wandered around a bit (intentionally) but eventually wound up in the Lake Placid area. Beautiful!

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I saw lovely waterfalls… (at High Falls Gorge, near Lake Placid)

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And lovely autumn foliage… (near Lake Placid)

And then I came to a T in the road. If I turned right, I would just be on some road headed somewhere. But if I turned left, I could drive my little Honda to the tip top of Whiteface Mountain! I am sure you can guess which way I turned… :)

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This is about 1/2 way up the mountain…

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And this is about 3/4 of the way up the mountain…

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And this is from the summit of Whiteface Mountain!

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Yep- I really was there!

Then I went to Little Whiteface Mountain and took a gondola ride up to the top of it…

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Same lake, different mountain!

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A view of Whiteface Mountain from Little Whiteface Mountain.

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My favorite photo from the day (of over 250 photos!). This is from the gondola on the way back down Little Whiteface Mountain.

Tomorrow I am leaving early so I can go to Fort Ticonderoga on my way home. More photos to follow!

1 comment:

  1. Hi Jennie -- I found you on the FLMQG flickr group. Glad to see someone else join us. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's projects.
    BTW -- your photos look great -- my family took the gondola up Whiteface Mountain about 10 years ago, but hiked down it. That was a mistake, even though we usually love hiking.

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