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I am staying with my sister, BIL and niece in a cabin in Jay this summer (a weekend in early July) and would like to plan at least one easy hike for us to do. My niece is 4 and has not really hiked before (she done nature walks and obviously general walks around the neighborhood and is a generally active kid), so I want to find something that is nice and easy, but with a good view at the end. My initial thought is Mt. Jo, but I was wondering if there are other better places to go? It does not have to be a mountain, my other thought is possibly Marcy Dam, but that doesn't have as nice a view.

I am an avid hiker, but my sister and BIL are not. My sister grew up hiking, so she has a respect for nature, just doesn't enjoy it as much. Not sure how much hiking BIL has done. I appreciate any and all feed back.

Edit for the haters, for Christ sake, I had a hat, a head net, long pants and sleeve, I even had gloves.

All I can say is they are here and they suck soooo bad. I have bites on places that didn’t even see the light of day other than me walking out of the cabin to my truck to grab something and then right back in. I was in Indian Lake and they are fierce. Even Deet didnt really help. Be prepared.

Im just fishing for new hikes and want to hear your favorites. My favorites will be in the comments.

Planning to climb next week. It will be my first time at Chapel Pond Slab. Anyone there recently can comment on the black fly situation? Anything to be aware of? I believe this area is not affected by peregrine closure.

Thanks in advance.

I noticed Dackmap is no longer around, which is a bummer - I didn't use it a lot, but it did have a lot of designated campsites marked that don't show up on some other maps. Super helpful for planning.

Anybody know an alternative that makes it easy to pinpoint the location of sites? vs. the sort of "it's generally around here" vibe of some of the state's info. I use Gaia for trip planning, as well, but none of the maps there note designated sites.

Hello, so we are planning a hike down from The Mt Jo lot, through the marcy dam areas (to camp) through algonquin, mt colden, and maybe marcy and then back to camp. The thing is, camping out there means we would have to backtrack most the way back to the lot to go to the Algonquin summit. But on the map we saw a very interesting (and convenient) kind of wide clearing with a ?stream? and rocks going all the way up the mountain (800m ascent by Alltrails map. If anybody knows if its hikable please let us know, we are decently experienced with bushwacking, although with the ticks now that might scrap this completely,
Edit: We are not greenhorns, we are aware of the difficulties this may have, as I commented below-
Even if this is scarmbles all the way up it would be faster and more exciting than the path all the way around. We are very aware what it is or may be, we can see what is seemingly hikable for us from the map, and are asking solely because of things like loose rocks and other danger conditions that are impossible to gauge from a map. Plus near the top there are 2 visible slides going up into sharp cliffs near the peak. We have done a somewhat similar peak like this in the catkills via bushwacking, and is the reason we are speculating on this.

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Is the old trail that starts near the Upper Cascade Lake to Cascade and Porter still open? Or is the newer trail from the Mt Van Hoevenberg Rec Center the trail to use?

Thanks

Can someone on the other side of the pond please help me to make sense of the controversy that is the Town negotiating outside of its customary process to appease the powers of Lake Champlain Transportation and the new docks at Valcour? I am aware that drastic changes were made, I don’t know exactly how those new docks/overstepping variances affected local residents, but I do know there is some hullabaloo regarding the conflicts of interest in the choice of Town representation and the decisions that were made. We once had a ferry to downtown Burlington from Port Kent. That was cool.

hiking the cranberry lake 50 with some friends at the end of summer. i was a frequent backpacker in my teens but it's been a long while since i've been on the trail. i'm seeking any insights related to bear activity (e.g. should we leave scented deodorant at home? are there places to rent bear canisters or are we allowed to do bear bags? etc); campfires (are they allowed?); other tips or advice? we're also planning on bringing our 3 year old pup with us, assuming it's also allowed. TIA!

Travelling from Allentown to Lake placid before Memorial Day. Thinking of a lay over. What’s a lay over that’s good for parents ( elderly as well). Lake George? Albany?