The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-05
ADIRONDACK CANOE ROUTES
Continued from ThirtssniA Page

Iant Raaustte River three carries Of tWo
aud a quarter miles more.
These seem ugly pOr-beg pardon.
sarr,a.-but through the well cut paths
II the Adirondack woods there isn't
han the trouble that you ct, for
instance. climbing the Golden Stairs on
the Nehmahbin on the way TO shushaWaga-
ming. There YOU have places TO creep
40. canoe and all on your back. that you
would hesitate az burdeulea8, but here
YOU can take that smooth trot, half run
and halt walk. that the good canoeman
Knows how TO take In open country.
Long Lake Is virtually an expanee Of
he Rauustts River. and you have about
twenty-five miles q open water without
having TO get out % your canoe. The
Raauetta River COWS into the upper end
Il Long Lake, and az Raquette Falls you
have a good two miles 10 trOt with the
oanoe on your back. a heart breaking
business. but when you get through with
u YOU swear you wouldn't have taken a
ta1icab Il you'd had tho chance.
there's no luxury this side Of Paradise
ike dipping your head into cool water
after a two mile carry. A. a matter OF
fact. however. On a good many OF the
Adirondack carries there are little trlcas
meant 70 carry a guide boat or a canoe.
and all YOU have 20 do II 20 trlIndle it over
tho intervening distance, easy a. wheel
nag a baby carriage. a pleasant break after
the long IMP cramped in a canoe.
Five miles below Upper Saranac Lake
there 10 q fork In the RaQuotte. II you
Keep straight on upstream Won carry q
couple of miles and come out into Upper
Sarsnac. II YOU turn toward the west
YOU have twelve miles or 80 % easy pad
ding and come out into Upper Lake.
The chances are perhaps that you take
the straight course into Upper Saranac.
hence To Paul smiths on Lower 81.
Reggie, after hard days work and q good
deal Of carrying. and from Paul smiths I
YOU can either 90 out by rail on the New |
York Central. which opens up the whole |
Adirondack region. or continue on to |
Plattsburg Oh Lake Champlain. Get a
map aud see how easy Il IL. but don't |
AXE the maps word for everything.
there are fsh IN these lakes. The !
State fisheries commission has seen 1
TO Il that the lakes are kept stocked. !
There are brook trout and lake trout. |
black bass and nike. TO say nothing OF the |
ever present perch.
The Delaware and Hudson is the high |
vay 20 Lake George and Lake Champlaln. |
aud by a big hoop from q point south OF |
Plattsburg i rehches the whole north
eastern Adirondack region over its own |
racks - Lake Placid, Saranac Lake. /
Bloomingdale and Loon Lake.
lake George u one Of the most pic- |
turesqne summer resorts In America. I
The Delaware and Hudson touches Il |
a. dozen points an 4 makes connections
with the steamboats, that take the trav-
eller Co every resort On the lake.
lake George ~ fanked by high hills.
green TO the top. and on is surface lie
scores of Islands. fragrant with pine and
hsmlock. This is what Herbert Spencer
said ot Lake George. writing IN his auto
hiography Lake George Is the most
picturesque thing | Jaw in the United
state, Three OF our English lakes placed
md 70 end would be something like u
N extent and scenery.
lake George = thirty-two miles long.
and It's width varies from three-quarters
~ a mile 10 four miles. They say in the
region that It's Stands correspond IN
number 10 the DAYS of the year The
hills thai bind u m ara tho eastern has
lions a. the Adirondack Mountains.
II Is the Horizon - The Last 81 the
NlOhicans.' and in the early days IL was
On the highroad between the 81. Lawrence
basin and ths Hudson Valley. Nobody
who knows anything ~ American history
neads b. - toll the historic associationa
that lake George has Port William
Henry .t01d at the southern end and along
~ shores ara the harilefelis Of the French
and Indian wars. and near by too. some
n the hsf'lefellg Ol the Revolution
lake George is one oi the resorts most
giung 60 bv New urkprs. There are aC-
for ON summer guests az
rs various hotels. It's thu sort Of place
that frowns % rowdvism Uf every tings
and II you want 20 20 down 20 the dock
and NEE, the steamboat in sleeveless
lersev Lake George ism Z the place for YOU
h Epand tho Summer. The lake George
.sgatta, held every Year 90 Hague some
ins in August. gives the sumner reel
..uts a chancn 10 show their motor boats
tnd their canOemanship.
These n a new state road along the
shores ~ the lake. IN that II YOU want 20
axe voilr motor ~ the country vol can 60
o Lake C~org. and have plenty uf chance
10 lice u and still not hs cut away from
he water and the things - do m a. The
"a p has a good line ~ steamers. new
I1at. the Horizon. - being built for the
gInruDr trafhC this year and ought 20 be
1upular with the residents.
ue Islands Of tho lake give you a chance
% do a. you please without feeling a.
uough you are intrIdinE They belong
o the State and parties may 60 there and
amp provided they are willing "a abide
~ certain restrictions a. 20 making fire
,Hd cugtInE live timber You can learn
ono ofthe good things that Our ancestors
isad 81 hs familiar with and that va have
urEotteu. It's great place n learn the
i'fIe things about nature pleasantly and
, Ithout fuss.