Lake Placid Living

It occurred to me that all I ever write about is what I do on the weekends. I'm pretty sure that no one actually reads this blog, but if they did I'd want them to think that cool stuff in and around Lake Placid does not just exist on the weekends. In fact, there is fun to be had in this town all the time. Especially if it's someone's birthday.

Tuesday was Bill's birthday so of course there was a surprise party. We ate a ton of food and drank some adult beverages, all in honor of the final year of Bill's twenties. Next year, we will be celebrating the big 30. I bet that's gonna be a good time.





Pretty much any evening of the week you can find someone to ride a mountain bike with. Whether it's one of several regualar group rides, or just a crew that wants to go out and get dirty, there's always a fun trail, and fun people around to ride it with.















One of my favorite trails has a downhill that comes screaming down into a beautiful field. Donald, Adrienne, Justin, and myself, braved the wet conditions on Wednesday night, to take in some beautiful scenery. There's other stuff around, but I'm not gonna talk about it, I'm just going to show it.


























































This weekend is another Release on Stone Valley, the only place in the world that I knwo where you can ride awesome single track, and awesome class V whitewater from the same parking spot.

Drying off from Quebec

On Thursday morning Bill Frazer, Phil LeMarche, and myself packed up the mini-van and headed up to Quebec. Recent heavy rains brought up the New Haven to a nice level so we took the long route through Vermont. The New Haven is about as fun as kayaking gets, so the little detour was well worth it.

We were going so fast I didn't have time to take nay photos, but I here is a photo of Trip Kinney from a few weeks ago.
















After a couple of laps we headed north to meet up with Steve Arns, Mike, and Alex from Canada. Once in Quebec, it began to rain. Not so much heavy downpours, but a constant misting, soaking rain that seemed to have no end. Our team of six had so much fun running the taureau on Friday, Five of us ran it again on Saturday (thanks Mike for running shuttle). Not too Keen on spending another night camping in the rain, and with levels not quite right for anything to paddle on Sunday, we headed home.