We have a tradition in the family to cross-country ski into the Santanoni Great Camp in Newcomb every year around New Year’s Day.
Santanoni is one of the Adirondack’s first Great Camps, built in 1893 by the Albany-based banker Robert Pruyn and his wife, Anna. On 13,000 acres surrounding Newcomb Lake, it offers 5,000 square feet of lakeside. It was built for a farm with large barns for cattle, sheep, goats and pigs. There were four farmhouses and a stone creamery.
Some years on our annual ski we have 10 or 15 people. This year there were only
