ADK again! Meacham Lake and beyond

Our second annual Lind/Bassington camping trip was this past weekend.  This year we headed all the way up to Meacham Lake, which is in the very northern point in the Adirondacks.

Got the normal amount of support on the drive.

Our campsite was fantastic and right on the water.

These pictures are from Saturday morning.  First picture was taken at 4:40 am.  It's hard to sleep in when it's this beautiful outside.

I love this picture.

Our hike up Debar Mountain.  This crew hiked 6 miles!  (Well, mostly.  Emmett rode most of the time).

After 5 miles, Zach and the girls thought they'd run a little!

Epic canoe trip.  We estimated that we crossed 8 or more beaver dams.  Still, we had a LOT of fun.

Emmett took a little nap.

Loons!!

On our first hike of Debar, we turned back a little less than half a mile from the top.  Monday morning, I got up and finished the run.  The last .6 mile was super steep and slippery and great fun.

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.