Sunday, July 28, 2019

June 17 & 18. Little Tupper Lake ADK

So this is the last of the trip. After a night car camping at Polliwog, we headed south past the town of Tupper and Tupper Lake to Little Tupper Lake in the William C. Whitney Wilderness area.

On our way into this somewhat remote wilderness area in the vastness of the Adirondacks, one of the largest parks in North America, no where near Ithaca, Boston, or Buffalo, we ran into Vinnie's old high school social studies teacher.  Mark had been on the lake for a few days with his family and let us know they'd stayed at camp 3 (which is on an island) and had left a bunch of firewood.   We were planning to go to a site at the southern end of the lake, but as my shoulder was really aching and the firewood sounded good, we elected to go to camp 3/.

How crazy is it that we ran into Vinnie's high school social studies teacher in the MIDDLE OF THE ADIRONDACKS.  What a crazy world.



Vinnie's image of our campsite.


I camped over the lake.  Might have been the best campsite of the trip.


Vinnie's pic of our firewood situation.   He was very happy about it.  Nice benches and counters.


We did a lot of fishing.





Vinnie's pic.  The beginning of stand up paddle boarding.


Got one on the line!


Good sized bass.


Dinner.


Not quite dinner.  To be fair, Vinnie caught more fish than me.  He caught like 4 of them..  But this was the biggest one!  So we ate the one I caught.


View from the bedroom.


Cooking dinner.



Little crazy jane's  and it's good.






Little swimming.




Sunset from the West point of the island.




Sunrise from the bedroom.




Paddling out.  This was my favorite lake of the trip, but I liked the loop the best.  The whole thing reminded me that the only time I can actually decompress is in the wilderness.  Fantastic trip.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Super inspiring. What a wonderful experience and opportunity. Hope your shoulder is healing and that your bike is out of the shed. Love you.

Nathan Oberlander said...

I’m not super positive, but the critter-pic looks to me like the carapace of a giant water bug (Lethocerus americanus), nasty little buggers with a powerful bite. Watch your toes!