Hiking to Azure Mountain Fire Tower | Potsdam, NY | August 2024 Today was a Saturday, and knowing how busy it can be in the Adirondacks on a summer weekend, we set our sights on a hike in a more remote area that we hadn’t visited before. From where we were in Tupper Lake, it…
Hiking to Buck Mountain Firetower | Buttermilk Falls | Kayaking Eaton Lake | Adirondacks, NY | July 2024 On our first morning at Lake Eaton, we decided to go check out a nearby fire tower hike: Buck Mountain. This one is actually a newer addition to the Firetower challenge, as it wasn’t on the list…
Hiking Arab Mountain & Panther Mountain | Tupper Lake, NY | March 2023 On our first full day in the Adirondacks, we slept in, had breakfast and tea, and basically just lazed around for a good part of the morning. As the morning warmed up ever so slightly, we decided to go and hit a…
Before we leave the Northeast, I thought I’d share a compilation of videos I have from our time living in New York, and a couple from Connecticut as well. Here’s just a sampling of the fun we had over all different seasons in Upstate New York! I wish I had more to show our journey…
Hiking to the St. Regis Mountain Fire Tower • May 17, 2017 • Completing the Fire Tower Challenge! 2 days after hiking to Tremper, we set out on another very exciting hike…what was to be our final hike in the Fire Tower Challenge! Like I’ve said before, in order to complete the challenge you must hike all…
Tremper Mountain Fire Tower • Kaaterskill Falls & Forest Area • May 15, 2017 Our last peak that we needed to hike to finish the Fire Towers in the Catskills was Tremper. To be completely honest, we weren’t exactly excited to hike this one. We had actually intended to do it twice before — on Veteran’s Day…