Adirondack Life

MASSAWEPIE Journal

BEGINNING IN EARLY SPRING 2020, I started hiking the trails at Massawepie, a Scout camp 12 miles west of Tupper Lake. In my younger years I was a camper and on staff at the camp, and I’ve been a volunteer there ever since.

In the early stages of the coronavirus lockdown, I’d go there every week, often with my girlfriend, Beth; sometimes my sister Sherry, also Massawepie staff alumni, would join us. It was a

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