A new base camp opens
On a crystal clear summer day, bright but not too hot, two fat trout were drifting lazily in a quiet spot on the Schroon River in waters that hemlock tannin had turned the color of copper. No one had tossed a line in, but a couple of campers at the spanking new Frontier Town state campground said they were definitely thinking about it. For the moment, however, as they sipped on cans of Pepsi, the gravitational hold of a couple of comfy camp chairs was proving too difficult to break.
The campers didn’t have the place all to themselves, but safe to say they had plenty of elbow room. The RV section was full, but RVers, while welcome, are not quite the demographic that the state has bet $25 million on, in hopes that adventurers will use Frontier Town as a base camp for hikes in regional outdoor attractions, such as the Hammond Pond Wild Forest, Boreas Ponds,
