New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-08
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OUR SUMMER RESORTS.
AMONG THE ADIRoNDACKs.
THE MOUNTAIN REGION-THE AUsABLE LAX
GAhIrING 0II=RNANING I-NnER TIE sn Al

by conflicting claims. The memorable must yields for
the time to genial may and possess his soul in
quietness and peace The dust Of the world Ia shaken
from off the feet the rammels Of society coed there IL
neither calling visiting time Is wasted on dress
there is rest from the vexatons OF shopping The near
store is five miles away and II wants but paper
Of pins that distance must berayeed to get them Nor
are such wants always sure OF being supplied
even there. gentleman OF our party lost his
th-brush, and, after going 10 Keene village
to get another, greatly chagrned at finding that
they had "none left" Fortunately pedder's wagon
stood before the door, single brush formed part Of
his stock in trade There hotel here and no board
nghouse except every farmhouse stransforned into
one for the Summer The mail comes but twice a week
and the passing of wagon is the event Of the day. Th
complete isolation is Of the great charms of the val
ley Yet secluded this spot is from the noise and
hurry and tumult Of the world cannot stay here
long without desire TO deeper into the wilderness
get away from every trace OF man or his work. and be
absolutely alone with Nature Camping out" follows
soon, and is the grand event of the Summer.
The favorite camping ground Of this region is the
Upper Ausabe Lake, and thither, with orr guides We
started on bright morning. The distance TO the Lower
Lake Is seven miles, all of It delightful; the last -four
miles being the toughest road imaginable and through
dense woods Walking IL every way preferable, for the
gnarled and twisted roots the huge stones over which
wagon jos and plunge and the deep ruts IN the SOFT
black muck make riding anything but pleasure The
come shade. There brooks tumbling over beds
ehoked with great messy stones and huge powders
blankeed with moss, having tees from twenty to forty
feet high growing them, casping them In their
roots 1t constant puzzle TO me from what hidden
sources the trees drew their nutrinent Much more
comes from the air than had ever dreamed possible In
the early Summer beautiful flowers the ground,
and when these fade the woods gay with the bril-
liantscarlet of the bchberry (COras ednddcsss and
the exquisite blue OF the ClmtOnh tCntond oorea'is)
berries which strangers to Western woods, though
growing In endless profusiOn here. No words can give
any idea of the beauty OF this forest ase backward or
forward the interminable arch OF living green;
stray bits of sunshine ecng bough and moss dancing
on the trembling leaves and ripping brook with which,
on one side or the other, scarcely part company All
the way This Gill Brook the delight of artists afford
ing it does many studies for gems OF landscape
| painting.
The high sandy hill gives us first view of the lake.
These Ausabe Lakes totally unlike each other yet each
perfect in its kind are the pride Of this region The
Avalanche think is the only that bears resern-
blance to this Lower Lake. That wilder but this exoels
I'm picturesque beauty. Here the mountains rise In Dod
bluffs sheer from the waters edge. more than 1000 feet
their naked front places barred to the storms though
VET where so precipitous that wonders how hand
full of earth can cling evergreens have gained and held
their footing Thus nothing the rocky wall with green
and brown from base to summit. Here, rev
years ago, was a display of grandeur and sublimty
seldom granted to mortal vision In one OF the most
fearful storms swept this region pouring desc
lation along the whole OF the valley in the dark
ness OF night black with rain and tempest the noun
tain streams changed to rivers and with the rain
pouring these dark lodges made the whole side one
foaming cataract Only two humanbeings looked upon
this sight-wild and fearful beyond descrption-and
then only as the sheeted lightning revealed II TO their
awed andterried gaze. Deeming this place OF Storm
and food for habtston, they left it TO its onel
ness and built their log cabin beyond the woods, nearer
to homes sail Of two miles over this lake. and
walk OF mile over the intervening portage, brings US
to the Upper Ausable, the very or the wilderness
Nothing can be loveler than this lake In its emerald
setting The other was grand; this the perfection or
beauty The mountains lower than those OF the Lower
Lake, slope away from the waters edge On ono SIDE
are the Gothic Mountains, more beautiful and pctur-
esdae in outline than any Others Of the Adirondacks
Big and Little Haystack rise In the rear just showing
their heads the nearer ana lesser peaks whlo
Moose Mount isolated from the others, stands ~ II
guarding head OF the lake. Our little boat Is noored
TO its landing INST below camp, which stands on
bank, giving fine outlook on the opposite shore ana
up the lake. picturesque little hut OF triangular
shane sloping 30 the ground and matched with bark
from ridgepoe to base that once marked this spot has
disappeared The fresh little "bough shanty," light
and airy improvised wherever night overlook party
ia also rare The desire for camping has reached such
hight the woods would well nigh be stripped for such
dwellings, and TO economic both bark and LABOR IN TINS
instance mere substantial and capacous one OF logs
has taken their place, and has 10 do duty permanently
Ours being and fresh, delightful Inc aroma OF
babsam still fingered in the logs, the ereNees ~eio
chineked with moss, and our bed Oh agranI ege'gd
bOughs was already spread our forest nome was ready
to welcome TO its rest and shelter IL was luxury 70
escape from all civilization to know that nothing D 1ne
primitive ak had touched our cabin that we were nlhs
away from every human habiation; TO nave GODS SKY
above and the solemn silence OF the WOODS Dou I
ing in the early morning over the ahei AT noon
end the twilight: lingering amid the deepcnn shadows
until the darkness covered al, ana the DaLhg campfire
In the esrp-fre lies half the fascination OF woodife
Building really science. Ii marvel TO see with
what ease and dispatch these hardy gsides el large
trees and reduce both trunk and branches 10 rewOod
What huge logs they pile on These are TOT asIhg com
shower flies upward if fresh evergreen boughs are used
If only wood countless little jets OF flame dart out mere ana
there at len mingng in common blaze ana strei-
ing high up In the darkness the strange WEIRD ghl EAST
ing deepest shadows upon the woods Just IN 'front.' Oh our
camp silver BIRCH leaning against an evergreen maze
lofty ARCH like some grand cathedral ase, ana inc
effect was wonderful when our fire. eaplng up hunlh-
ated it, There nothing like the campfire Ior scatter
OF Ight and warmth. Neither il there any
time like this for storytelling, anecdoe, aud
repartee, many Of our evenings Testified, Nhen
story followed story and shouts OF laughter rang out on
the stll air On one OF these merry evenings, young
clergyman OF party gave US snatches from the Italian
birch bark for his music-sheet he produced series OF
unheard Of trils and quayers with absurd conor
waking the echoes OF the woods and making night
hdeous with an uninteaoIe aLson. m wa" he HiScs
came up during the performance ana, never having
heard the original, were utterly cOniouucu w INC eI
aces and the foreign tongue They looked on with
thorough contempt, evidently considering nun as ne
subject for a unatc asylum. doubt, however, an
ucutvated taste would be much better suited 10 one Oh
halls Ii started the screen Owl ana tbey
kept up the concert night long and one OF our guides
not only attributed the unearthly dscord but three
days' storm that followed, entirely to the opera.
The loveest picture left my memory u tat OF row
ing the inlet strong oar carried Us up through he
shauower OF the lake. where the heavens ana
meet where may look down instead OF up 70 See e
sky for every Heating cloud. every tnge OF plo ~ "o
sky and every shade OF green in the forest are 80 p
feetly reflected that dividing line Is visible shels
shore ends and the lake be gins. In certain pneocS