Imagine a six-month backpacking and camping trip to the lakes and high peaks and through the villages and camps of the Adirondacks. It is the stuff that dreams are made of. Longstreth, however, lived that dream and came to love ?this lake-starred, balsam forest? that remained a wilderness despite all the ?modern conveniences? like ?the upholstered car, the thermos flask, the automatic fusillader.? Blue Mt., Loon Lake, the Ausable River, Paul Smith?s, Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Whiteface, Wilmington Notch, Keene Valley, ...
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Imagine a six-month backpacking and camping trip to the lakes and high peaks and through the villages and camps of the Adirondacks. It is the stuff that dreams are made of. Longstreth, however, lived that dream and came to love ?this lake-starred, balsam forest? that remained a wilderness despite all the ?modern conveniences? like ?the upholstered car, the thermos flask, the automatic fusillader.? Blue Mt., Loon Lake, the Ausable River, Paul Smith?s, Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Whiteface, Wilmington Notch, Keene Valley, Indian Pass, Schroon Lake, Hurricane Mt., Wolf Jaws, The Giant, McIntyre with its summit view of 135 lakes ? the list of famous features of the Adirondack Park?the largest state park in the contiguous United States?goes on and on, and Longstreth visited them all.
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