Tag: Saranac Lake

Windblown trees, ducklings, bear dances & a local author fireside book review. A quiet week of reflection in camp on a remote mountain lake. Just sitting. Doing nothing. It’s not something I’m particularly good at. As anyone who knows me will attest, I’m a busy guy, always on the...

Everything Was Going According To Plan Until the Moment We Walked Into a Pickle ********** With six adult & two grandchild appetites gracing our camp’s picnic table, a two week family camping trip in a boat access only remote leanto site is no joke. Especially when it comes to...

Camping With Grandkids A Blue Ribbon Experience ********** On behalf of those who have, and for those who have not yet had the privilege, I can confidently on good authority say, being a grandparent & camping with grandkids is an absolute HOOT! Non-stop, filled with questions, adventures, discoveries, boundary...

Just Another Day in Camp Life on Middle Saranac Lake Canoed back into Bull Rush Bay late Sunday afternoon after the windstorm. I rowed my Zen boat down from South Creek to spend a couple more days in camp with my brother. The weather was calm, muggy and warm...

A Tornado-like wind event tears through Middle Saranac Lake Saturday, June 20th: My brother Ray watching from a safe distance as the DEC crew clears blowdown from Middle Saranac Lake’s site 63 after Ray rode out Thursday’s extreme wind event alone with his dog Pepper in the Bull Rush...

A 2026 SL Winter Carnival Prequel My wife Robin & I decided to make our annual Saranac Lake Winter Carnival roadtrip a day early this year, in part because she’s in the midst of getting ready for her own week long mother/daughter road trip to Florida, but mostly to...

When I was a young boy growing up, due to my father’s career, our family moved a great deal. The Mayflower moving van people knew us by name. By the time I began fifth grade in Saranac Lake, we had moved ten times. I’d been the new kid in...

A Simple Coincidence? Or a Legendary Baseball Great’s Ghostly From Beyond the Grave Greeting? ********** October, 1920 A Baseball Legend Retires After a career spanning 14 illustrious Major League seasons, 3 National League Pennants, the 1912 Chalmers Award as the Senior Circuit’s best player, the 1915 NL batting title,...

With a month long string of record breaking temperatures, low water extremes, droughtlike conditions, and a fire hazard driven state wide burn ban, as I climbed from my old friend the Saranac River’s waters after an unseasonably warm October afternoon bottle dive, I couldn’t help but wonder. Was this...

Fall Foliage, BBQ Chicken, Broken Bridges & an Ampersand SOS My wife Robin & I celebrated our 35th wedding anniverary in our traditional way, with a day trip to take in the fall foliage in and around my heart’s home of Saranac Lake. Due to life circumstances beyond our...