We just spent two days on a road trip with Paul’s sister, Judy and her boys, David and Ethan. Monday we went to the Adirondack Museum about 1 hour north of Old Forge in Blue Mountain Lake. A very beautiful Museum situated above Blue Mountain Lake. We learned all about Adirondack history and about the history of the people; learned how a canoe is built; learned about how the very rich rode for hours by train and then boat to get to this amazing area for some fresh air.
After the museum we headed further north to Plattsburg for the night. Paul found us this amazing deal on a room for the night; a suite for $68 plus 11% room tax for all 5 of us! The Shamrock Motel is a traditional motel for the area with little individual cabins and motel rooms complete with kitchens. Our room was two rooms, two bathrooms and a kitchen and 3 beds. It was nicer than most motel 6’s and very quiet. The most important part was it was old but very clean and the beds were comfortable.
Shamrock Motel
Tuesday morning we headed to Ausable Chasm which is a huge gorge just south of Plattsburg. After hiking about a mile along the rim you start descending into the gorge along walkways that have been carved out of the cliff – very cool for me, Paul wasn’t impressed! When you finally reach the bottom of the gorge, 150 feet down you board a raft and your guide takes you through the gorge to the take out about a mile down river. The gorge is very narrow but this time of year the water is flowing pretty slowly so it was pretty relaxing.
where the river begins it's descent
Rafting through Ausable Chasm
I took so many pictures to share from this little trip but we had some technical difficulties starting with Denise forgot the SD chip so I took a few with the camera memory and we then bought a new SDHC chip in Plattsburg so that I could record this amazing gorge which I did. When I sat down this am to write the pictures were all there, beautiful and I started selecting the ones I wanted to share. The computer got slow so I decided I better copy them onto the hard drive and that is where the problem really got bad! We still are not sure what went wrong but the pictures on the SDHC got corrupted and unreadable. I thought there was still hope; I had the pictures on the camera memory. Noooo! they are gone too! We think the SDHC ate them when we put it into the camera or computer! Needless to say I am returning the SDHC cause I don’t trust it. Paul is worried that he might have made a mistake when he came to help me and that has really got his EGO – he is the tech genius after all! The pictures are all gone but not in my memory as long as that lasts!! You really should come visit this gorge, it is beautiful and the area is so amazing with cute little towns and so many places to explore.