The day started cloudy with a definite chill in the air, but at least it wasn’t raining! ❄️

We spoke to a couple at breakfast this morning who live in New Jersey. We told them how we were big Bruce Springsteen fans (he lives in New Jersey) and the husband was telling us how they use the same barbers and sometimes Bruce just drops in to use the toilet there. They said how ordinary he is, not like a lot of famous people! 😁

After a lovely breakfast, served by Nigel, who was very jolly and kept calling me ‘the Mrs! and Si, ‘the Mr! we decided on a hike.

Si, first of all found a two-mile ‘easy’ one but I thought we were capable of more than that, so we decided to climb to the summit of Mount Jo in the Adirondack Mountain Range. It’s classed as ‘moderate’ and reading the blurb about it, it seemed one we could manage. 👍⛰

When we arrived at the trail head, the young man in charge said his advice was to take the long trail and not the short one, as it was more interesting and the short one had lots of boulders and high step-ups.

We set off and at first, all seemed okay, quite flat, not too hilly, but that soon changed and we found ourselves climbing up and up and up over boulders, tree roots and fallen trees. Of course, parts of it were very muddy too! The summit is about 877 metres (2,877 feet) but it felt like a lot higher climb.

We saw three other people on the trail, two men and one young lady. They were all moving much faster than us of course. We saw the young lady at the summit and Si said to her that we moved slower than her and she replied that yes, she was younger! How to make friends and influence people! 😂

On the way up and down we saw some grey squirrels with red tails! Very strange! They were moving too quick for us to get photos.

It took us 80 minutes to get to the top but only 60 minutes to get down. On the way up it didn’t rain and we even had a little sun but on the decent it started to rain quite hard at times. Luckily, we had wet jackets with us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Considering that just a few weeks ago, we didn’t know if we would be able to do walks, let alone hikes on this holiday due to Si’s bad back pain, I think he’s done extremely well to achieve all he’s done and without complaint. 👏👍

Just to go back to yesterday’s blog about John Brown’s house, I forgot to mention that apart from the two original pieces of furniture, the structure of the house is also original as are all the wooden floors inside. I find that just amazing! They knew how to build things back then!

Tonight we are fine-dining at the award-winning restaurant here at the Inn called, The View. There is a dress code and special rules apply, e.g. no mobiles are allowed in the dining room (in fact theres a notice when you enter the front door to say all mobiles must be turned off!) and if guests are bringing children to eat they are expected to behave and will be seated somewhere appropriate! Oh my! Expectations are high!

More tomorrow from Lake Placid. It’s our last full day before we move on to Boston to fly home!