Bound for Home (Tyler Cunningham Shorts)
“There’s a nice beach roughly forty percent of the way from Saranac Lake to Tupper Lake, along Route 3, opposite the trailhead for Ampersand Mountain, and that was my goal for the night.
In my new home, the Adirondacks, you can camp anywhere on State Forest Preserve, as long as you are back 150 feet from water/trails. I had been having fun since Spring’s arrival exploring/mapping my new environment … building a list of places to camp, and categorizing them by view/hike/bugs/beasts/swim. I wa...s enjoying the feeling of my new world expanding day by day.
I parked my Honda Element alongside six other vehicles, but instead of crossing the road and climbing Ampersand to the South, I went back into the woods and headed north to the beach. Three minutes later, I stripped and changed into my suit for a swim before the sun disappeared behind the trees along the shore at the western end of Middle Saranac Lake. I set up camp in bare feet (perhaps only 100 feet back from the water, but it was a nice spot), enjoying the pricking and pinching of pine-needles and pinecones and sticks and stones while I found the perfect trees to hang my hammock from for the night; it’s a Hennessy, which has built-in bug-netting, to protect me from the black flies and mosquitoes overnight. With my hammock hung, and sleeping bag stuffed up into the chamber, I grabbed my book, slammed a granola bar and a bottle of Gatorade, and walked out into the water (up to my waist) to read in the remaining sunlight, out of reach of most of the bugs.MoreLess
In my new home, the Adirondacks, you can camp anywhere on State Forest Preserve, as long as you are back 150 feet from water/trails. I had been having fun since Spring’s arrival exploring/mapping my new environment … building a list of places to camp, and categorizing them by view/hike/bugs/beasts/swim. I wa...s enjoying the feeling of my new world expanding day by day.
I parked my Honda Element alongside six other vehicles, but instead of crossing the road and climbing Ampersand to the South, I went back into the woods and headed north to the beach. Three minutes later, I stripped and changed into my suit for a swim before the sun disappeared behind the trees along the shore at the western end of Middle Saranac Lake. I set up camp in bare feet (perhaps only 100 feet back from the water, but it was a nice spot), enjoying the pricking and pinching of pine-needles and pinecones and sticks and stones while I found the perfect trees to hang my hammock from for the night; it’s a Hennessy, which has built-in bug-netting, to protect me from the black flies and mosquitoes overnight. With my hammock hung, and sleeping bag stuffed up into the chamber, I grabbed my book, slammed a granola bar and a bottle of Gatorade, and walked out into the water (up to my waist) to read in the remaining sunlight, out of reach of most of the bugs.MoreLess
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