Adirondacks, Labor Day Weekend 2013

We finally got in a camping trip to the Adirondacks Labor Day weekend. We stayed at Lake Harris in the town of Newcomb, NY at camp site 89, which was located right off of the trail to the Santanoni Preserve. It rained off and on the first day up there and we got caught in a few downpours while out on short hikes to Ferd's Bog and a stop at Grassy Pond 

Our first stop once inside the park was at Ferd's Bog to try and pick up some boreal bird species 

Bog Bilberry 

Was lucky enough to see some Pitcher Plant with blooms at the bog

After our escape from a downpour at the bog and a fresh shirt, we made a stop at Grassy Pond, where we got caught in an even worse downpour. It was very humid and not the weather I am accustomed to when camping in Adirondack's in September. Being pregnant doesn't help either...either way, it was still beautiful.

 

Buttermilk Falls just outside Long Lake, New York

Banks of Raquette River at Buttermilk Falls

Cladonia (Cup Lichen) 

Hudson River head waters on road to Harris Lake Campground

Harvestman on Alder at our camp site.

A nice cluster of Turkey Tail Fungus

The remains of Frontier Town

Atop Whiteface Mountain. The only mountain climbing we would be doing for this trip would have to be by car, so to get out alpine fix, we took the Honda Fit up the Veteran's Memorial Highway in Wilmington to the top of Whiteface Mountain. And yes, the little Fit was a trooper. 

 

 

On the last day we took a short hike along the Northville-Placid Trail south from Route 28N in Long Lake

 

Coral Fungus 

 

 

A few peeks at the Fall colors to come

The Trail

Some moss heads in the bog.