Nice night in the motel . . . but 43 degrees around the breakfast picnic table this morning!!!!

. . .I don’t know it seems a little early to me for this . . . but got to reach the tourists while they are here!!!

Very foggy this morning as we headed out of Old Forge. Mark, the Oarsman Boats owner, said we will probably have fog many mornings to come . . .

Lot of deer in Old Forge. In fact you can hand feed some of them but you will risk getting a ticket!!! Lot of bear in the area too. There have been two mother bears in town with their cubs. David, Denise and Ally have also seen bear while biking along . . .

. . . this was funny . . . a fairly new sign for this resort and they are advertising PHONES!!!!!

Eleven miles down the road we came to Inlet, at the head of the lake . . . make sense!!!!

Inlet is called a Hamlet . . . things are getting very CUTSEY in this area. Haven’t seen a mobile home for several days as we have biked deeper into the park. People are REALLY big on naming their cabin properties in this area (cutesy names too)!!

Next down the line was the small village of Raquette . . . very quiet there this morning . . .

. . . hey emJay, this one is for you!!!

. . . oh yeah, we are in the mountains but seem to stay between 1,800 and 2,000 feet. But we are biking up to 2,500 feet in gain each day. LOTS of ups and down only to end up 100 feet higher than the night before!!!

. . . nice riding along all the lakes.

. . . mmmmmmmmmmm . . . looks like a regular bog????

. . . lots of money in this area . . . even the beaver lodges have satellite TV!!!!

nice, these people had a totem rather than a cutesy sign!!!!

They are calling the little unincorporated villages in this area Hamlets . . . very quaint!!!

. . . a new firewood selling concept. . . . the mobile station

. . . this was a nice one . . .

. . . and they caught on camera some thievin’ going on in the middle of the night!!!!

We met Mark, owner of Oarsman Boats, who has about 400 hours into building this cedar strip Adirondack Guide Canoe. He also makes carbon and kevlar canoes. You can see one in the background.

The Adirondack State Park is 6.5 million acres equally divided between state and private ownership. There are land use rules  guiding the the private land activites. Evidently quite controversial!!!

Nice city beach on Blue Mountain Lake . . .

When we rode into Long Lake, after 54 mile sand 2.570 feet of climbing, I saw the owner of this plane working on the engine . . . mmmmmmmm . . .not sure if I would take a ride. Rhetorical question though because he was not flying today . . . too windy!!!

Tonight we are staying in one of the New York State Parks. Saturday night and the place is hopping!!!! Jim broke two spokes today and Bernie is having trouble with his hydraulic brakes again!!!!