Adirondack Life

Endless Love

ow. You’re having a really Adirondack summer.” It was just an offhand comment by a friend last year, but it struck me at the time. I live within spitting distance of the Blue Line and I’ve worked all corners of the park over my decade-plus at . Aren’t all of my summers “really Adirondack”? But I knew what she meant. Although my husband and I camp, hike, paddle and party in this vast playground at our doorstep, we tend to do the same things in the same places every year. Gathering with friends and family at camps on Chazy, Chateaugay and Mountain View Lakes? Check. Anniversaries on our special site at Forked Lake? Check. Celebrating my birthday with a float down “our” stretch of the Saranac

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