The other Jackrabbit
DIRECTIONS: From NY 86 and NY 30 in Paul Smiths, drive north on NY 30 for a mile to the VIC entrance on the left.
Several years ago, I asked Bill McKibben, the author and climate-change activist, to ski the entire Jackrabbit Trail and write a story for the Explorer. I expected him to start in Saranac Lake and end in Keene.
You’d figure 24 miles would be a long day even for Bill, who once wrote a book about his effort to become a competitive cross-country skier. Not so.
Bill started at the Paul Smith’s College Visitor Interpretive Center, skied nine miles to Lake Clear Junction—through woods, down a logging road, and under a power line—and then followed railroad tracks to Saranac Lake. In all, he added about sixteen miles to the trip.
The stretch from Paul Smiths to Lake Clear is indeed part of
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