What a week! We haven't been out much lately but the wait was worth it! Liz took us to Lake Placid in the Adirondacks. We stayed at the
Adirondack Loj which is owned and operated by the
Adirondack Mountain Club as part of the Heart Lake Program Center. The property includes access to trails leading to all of the high peaks in the Adirondacks. It is a very busy place.
Liz was there for a job interview but it was sort of like a mini-vacation as well. We arrived Monday night and set up our stuff in the bunkroom of the lodge. At dinner, we made some new friends who were vacationing at the lodge to ski and snowshoe the high peaks. After dinner we sat with our new friends around the Loj fireplace and Liz worked on her quilt while one of her new friends was working on knitting an afghan (it made us think of our roots!). Check out the Moose over the fireplace!
In the morning we took a moment to enjoy the view from our loft window before going down to breakfast.
Since the interview wasn't until 2 p.m. Liz got us all geared up for an Adirondack adventure. We went snowhoeing! We snowshoed with some of our new friends. We took the trail towards Marcy Dam (about 2.1 miles one way). We arrived at the Marcy Dam lean-to before our friends and sat down to have a rest and wait for them. As we waited we were accosted by greedy chickadees hoping for a handout. A few moments later Liz spied something brown and furry scurrying across the nearby snow - it was a marten! We startled it and it wrapped itself around a small tree trunk and stared at us. We learned later that he is a regular visitor to the lean-to and that, like the chickadees, he stays close hoping for human handouts.
We made our way back to the Loj by 1 p.m. and had a rest before Liz's interview began. What nice people! We really hope that Liz gets the job so we can become 46ers (people who have climbed all 46 peaks in the Adirondacks). Sadly, we had to leave after the interview was over and head home.
Liz said she wore us for luck, we hope it all works out.
