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With 400 miles and an 8 hour drive ahead of me I wasn’t prone to stop and take photographs. But at a couple of locations I couldn’t resist. My first stop was just south of Tupper Lake at a road cut where the rock face had put on a ‘glacial’ disguise.

I was headed south to leave this kind of winter scene behind but that doesn’t mean I didn’t appreciate the cold beauty of a close up look.

Unlike the trees trapped in ice I was free to move on. (not that the trees could roam if it wasn’t for the ice)

Moving on I took a drive by snapshot as I crossed over Long Lake. This is about an hour and a half drive from Canton, NY.

With a stop sign just ahead i had to stop anyway so I pulled over for a minute to take a couple of photos of Hoss’s Store in Long Lake.

You got to admit it’s enough to get any tourist’s attention and during the summer there’s always a crowd. During off season I had the chance to get a photo without someone getting in the way of the rustic railing.

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Just south of Long Lake is one of my favorite places. Too bad it’s posted property but at least I can get a good roadside view. I had to pull over into a snowbank to park along the road and walk up to the bridge that crosses Fishing Brook.

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That was my last stop in the Adirondacks. Not that there isn’t countless photo ops but I wanted to get the drive over and done with. I didn’t stop again until I was well past Albany in the small town of Claverack. It wasn’t the mill that made me stop. I was headed in the wrong direction to see this view.

It was the geese hanging out on the ice edge on the pond above the dam that caught my attention as I crossed the bridge. Lucky there was a place to pull over and I walked back to get a couple of photos.

I knew this was my last chance to stop. Only a couple of miles down the road I’d be getting on the Taconic Parkway and that road offers little chance to pull over legally if I did see something interesting

My next stop would be at a traffic light on Long Island. I’m not sure but it looks to be a welcome sign from the NYS Tourist Board

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1. cindee Says:
   March 17th, 2009 at 6:16 pm

   Glad you had a safe trip! My favorite picture is the trees trapped in ice. Very unique(-: I have never seen anything like that before. Thanks for sharing your journey!

   cindee,
   I’m glad I stopped and got out of the truck instead of taking photos from the window otherwise i would have missed the ice trapped trees. Those photos made the trip

2. Ratty Says:
   March 17th, 2009 at 11:34 pm

   I love all of these nature scenes, and places like Hoss’s draw me like a magnet. A mayor we used to have in Detroit used to welcome people in a similar way. He was completely serious though.

   Ratty,
   I’ve never stopped in the store even though I must have gone by it hundreds of times. Guess I’m not much of a consumer and even dislike window shopping. But the rustic railing is something else – inspiration to build a fence in the same manner.

3. rainfield61 Says:
   March 18th, 2009 at 6:06 am

   I like the one with trees trapped in the ice as well. The green that survived in the icy rock face is really fascinating.

   rainfield,
   Yep, that was the best thing I saw on the trip. I’d say the ice was at least 4 feet thick in some spots and was colored a nice blue shade that didn’t show in the photos.

4. Monica Says:
   March 18th, 2009 at 10:06 am

   I believe we can call these photos excellent examples of “local color.” I especially love the little “glaciers” — very nice photos. So, is the snow all gone now on Long Island? And I love the welcoming sign, though it only reinforces certain prejudices I may have…

   Monica,
   Snow on the island is now all gone. Only a few isolated patches of snow are left in the woods here at home now. The ‘Glaciers’ had melted some but you’d have to look close to tell.

   Don’t take the sign the wrong way. We love trespassers

5. Grammy Says:
   March 18th, 2009 at 2:40 pm

   You still have snow? Man I have a sun burn, from Dolphin Island.

   Grammy,
   There’s only a few isolated patches of snow left in the woods. I didn’t get a tan on my trip but at least I got to go outside in shirtsleeves instead of having to get bundled up like a toddler in my snowsuit

6. Benjamin Says:
   March 20th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

   Keep those ice shots coming. It was almost 80 here earlier this week and was far, far too warm (but it did allow me to plant a crabapple). I’ve been to NY once, NYC to be precise just a year ago, and I have no desire to head back to NY. It could have been the plane’s pilot who, in moderate winds, couldn’t land the first time and almost made me vomit as the wind pushed the plane off the runway and we accelerated to take off and try again. I knew what was precisely happening because I like to plug my headphones into the arm rest and listen to air traffic control. OR it could’ve been the taxi drivers ducking and weaving through traffic at 150 mph as I tried to hold my lunch down in the back seat.

   Benjamin,
   Hopefully the only place I’ll find ice in the near future is the freezer. I am to please but I want some of those 80s.

   If you think NYC has bad drivers and traffic don’t ever go to Boston. Drivers there use sidewalks as passing lanes and traffic lights have the opposite meaning.

7. John Hennessey Says:
   October 20th, 2009 at 2:49 pm

   um. long lake is IN the adirondacks not north of it. and albany is not even near the adks. get it right

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