The Beautiful Adirondack Mountains

Simply Rad_2

Darin
Hunting season is in full swing. I see trucks with racks hanging out all over the place and orange everywhere. Here Elk are the big hunt. I live in Steamboat Springs Colorado.
We all get caught up in the rat race and sometimes forget what it is really about. Looks like you guys had a great time. I know when things get to be alittle to much and I need a break-I head into the mountains and leave it all behind. Your kids are the most important job in life, second to none. Now sometimes we forget this, and hopefully not for long. All we can do is try our best and remember to enjoy the great ride of life. I just recently became scuba certified and looking forward to a 10 sailing trip to the carribean. Now, that's life! Take care Darin
Jeffrey
PS A snorkel day!

Darin Cook_3

A Great Day spent with my kids!!

We had a great time hunting in the Hammond pond region of the Adirondacks today. We have such a busy schedule with all of our work, it was a real nice respite to spend it in the tranquility of the mountains. No game taken, but the time spent with my kids is priceless. You would have thought with all the snacks and sodas packed up, we were going out for days. I am still trying to figure out where those little babies went with all the bottles and diapers. SPEND TIME WITH YOUR KIDS!!! Time goes by so fast.








Darin

Wayco Wayne_2

Ah yes

My folks are from upstate NY and we always spent a week every Summer in the Adirondacks. Almost every Summer since I've had kids I would take them up there to Rollins Pond State Park near Saranac Lake. You're right to treasure the times spent. My kids are grown and for now find other things more interesting than me and my wife. (That's fine. I'm catching up on some reading. I miss spending time with them though) A quick story. We were camping and I took all 3 kids on a fishing trip. While trolling on my way to another lake I caught a small Pike. Only 18 inches. To my kids though it looked like Moby ****. My oldest girl 12 at the time, set her jaw and was determined to catch a big fish. She was no longer satisfied with the sunny's and perch we had been catching from the shore of the campsite. Unfortunately we had no more luck and later when she wasn't looking I gave her line a tug so she would think she had gotten a strike. Her head spun around and her mouth flew open and then she saw my smirk and knew what had happened. She didn't talk to me the rest of the day she was so mad. To get back into her good graces I promised to get up early the next morning and take her only back to where I caught the Pike. We got up at 5 AM. The Lake was covered in a cold thick fog. I was regretting my actions and missing my nice warm sleeping bag. We couldnt see 5 feet away, but a promise is a promise. Well at the exact same spot as where I caught my Pike I saw her fishing line bend like she had hit a snag, but it was accompanied with a smack on the water behind me that could only mean one thing. Bass! She thought I was kidding her again but I finally got through to her that this was no joke. She made every mistake possible, but some how reeled in the biggest Largenouth I had ever seen in all my years in the Adirondacks. It was at least as long as my little Pike from the day before and much much fatter. We took it back to the campsite and woke everyone and took pictures and then let Grandpa Largemouth go back to his bed in the lake. She's 20 now and away at college. Time flys. The Adirondacks are full of mountains and memories. Here's a picutre from Whiteface mountain. WW

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BillW@honeywell

STOP! You guys are killin' me!

Just stopped by the site to check in, and I find this! It makes this old Adirondack boy nostalgic, until I remember snowfall meaured in feet and -40 temperatures. Things have changed, we didn't wear that hi-tech camo when I went with my Dad...red & black buffalo plaid Woolrich jackets were the thing to wear. Great pictures!

Supply House Rick

Gotta Love a Family Man

Darin I admire your devotion. There are so many people who ignore their kids and take them for granted. It good to see a Dad and not a mere father. We have 5 children all under the age of 11. Yes folks I said 5! As you can imagine all of our free time is with them. We have done Disney, Mountains, Oceans etc. They also get to watch the Sun set over the Catskill Mountains every night. I treasure the moments with them. I exist for them...
Rick (the 49 year old DAD)

Kris_2

Adirondacks

Where are you from Bill? I'm about 20 minutes from Lake Placid. I took my kids up Pokomoonshine this past summer. Better then watching cartoons any day of the week! I've spent my whole live here in the Adirondacks and the views, fishing,and hunting still amaze me.

Jon_10

Adirondacks

I live on the northern side of the Adirondacks, on the St. Lawrence River. I have a camp at McCavanaugh Pond Club on the the Blue Mountain Rd. just outside of St. Regis Falls. The club owns it's own land and has 10,000 acres. It is beautiful there, but the black flies and no-see-ums in the springtime are a terror.

Dave Yates (PAH)

A few summers

spent at Forest Lake Camp & then back for canoeing high-adventure trips with Boy Scouts (many years later!). Family camping trips on Forked Lake. Eagles, a total eclipse of the moon while sitting in a canoe with dad, bees in our food, tipping my brother out of the canoe - three times(G), fishing, loons with their eerie cry, sunrises with warm coffee in hand, bears in camp!, pontoon plane rides, the Adirondack Museum, the hand-painted canoe paddle, and memories that will never fade.

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S Ebels

IT\"S THAT TIME OF YEAR!!!!!

Opening day of firearm deer season is tomorrow, the 15th. My two lads, Andy and Matt, will be hunting in our swamp along with me, an uncle and a cousin. Breakfast is at 4:00 AM and out to the woods and set up by 6:00. There's nothing like watching the woods come alive in the morning silence. The anticipation which has been building for weeks finally being released. The annual night before poker tournament. Too much fun!! Especially the R&R time with the boys.

I will post a picture of the largest buck ever taken in Michigan tomorrow night. The range will be at least 400 yards and the deer will be running full tilt through the woods. Old Mossyhorns will be taken by yours truly after eluding 19 other hunters who were not up to the task. My skillful stalk and astounding ability with a rifle will finally bring this near mythical behemoth to the buck pole.*


The weather tomorrow is supposed to start bad and get worse as the day goes on. Upper 30's and rain, falling temps with rain turning to snow during the late afternoon, Winds from the ESE at 15mph and rising. (the worst possible direction for where I sit)

I haven't shot a buck in 6-7 years but I enjoy the heck out of watching them chase their women through the swamp. I suppose if the "Buck Of All Bucks" would happen my way I would pull the trigger but it's not just about killing one in the first place.






* subject of course to this actually happening

Plumdog_2

Saranac Lake

Hey I was a toddler in 1950-1954 or thereabouts and my dad made us live on Saranac Lake while he finished up school at Paul Smiths College. Even at the age of 3 I remembered much of that time. What a great country for kids to grow up in.

Wayco Wayne_2

Here's

the view from on top of St Regis mountain

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Darin Cook_3

It is a special place

I lived up in Saranac Lake for a few years. The views are all awesome. Scarface mountain with a coating of snow and riding into Lake Placid on a fridgid winter morning and taking in the view of Whiteface mountain. My son was born in Adirondack Medical center. Our family camp is in North Hudson. There will be no Florida in my retirement future. It will be in the Adirondacks. Now if I could just get that Adirondack monster buck. I want the NYS big buck club patch.








Darin

Dave Yates (PAH)

A new day

Sunrise over Forked Lake - 03 trip

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S Ebels

Special places and special times

Time with your kids is too precious for words. Yesterday morning I bounded out of bed at 4:15 to whip up my annual opening morning breakfast before heading out to the woods. Andy and Matt, my two sons, and Mike and Eric, my two sons by marriage can consume astonishing amounts of eggs, french toast, biscuits and gravy, bacon, OJ, coffee etc. so I have to get a jump on them. They always show up to help but I like to beat them to the draw and show 'em the old man can still kick out a rompin good pile of food.

After filling them up, (must admit I ate my share too) we all headed out to the woods. We all sit in different spots but keep up silent conversation text messaging each other on the cell phones. I bagged a nice little 8 point about 11AM and the lads dragged it out of the swamp (about 300 yds) for the "old geezer". After that we sat in my blind and cooked up a pan of hot dogs and baked beans while comparing notes of the morning's action, making plans for the afternoon and telling lies. (fishermen don't have a corner on telling whoppers) The day ended with rain that did nothing to dampen high spirits or the anticipation for the next day's hunt.

I had seen a large deer way down on the end of my shooting lane and told Matt, the youngest to sit in my blind this morning. I elected to stay home and work seeing as how I already had my deer. About 10AM Matt called and said he had hit a nice one as it streaked across the lane chasing a doe and he needed help tracking. The rain and snow were quickly eraseing anything to follow so Andy, Eric and I hiked out there and lent a hand trailing. There's a pretty good story about finding this buck but it's best told while aided by the libations that Mark Hunt has spoken of here.

Long story short........... Matt is wearing a pretty good grin. I'll let the picture speak for itself.

Darin Cook_3

Good for you all!!

I live for the deer season. In fact some days I wish we would run out of oil, so I could hunt for the logging camps full time. I have so many great memories of times spent in the woods with my Dad and Papa. I love sharing the experience of the outdoors with my own children. I love to sit out there and just ponder at all of the special and unique attributes of the forest that God put there for us to enjoy. Of course a few bottles of Canadian Lager at the end of the day gives it just the right finishing touch. Steve, we will post some photos on our game harvest(if that happens). Happy Hunting









Darin

Mark Hunt

The right stuff


Congrats Steve!!

This Saturday will be my 9 year olds first opening day.

I will NEVER forget my first opening day. I remeber my Dad shaking me in my bed saying, "Son, son...wake up......you're going hunting today"

I was 9 years old and I got to miss school that day.

This year ENCON changed the southern opener to Saturday and it will stay that way. So even though my 9 year old doesn't get to miss school, he still get's his opener.

I wish my Dad was still here to see this day. He died two months before my son was born. He bet me that I was going to have a girl for my first child. What some people won't do to get out of paying a debt!

I miss him every day.

So..........this Saturday morning........my son will accompany me to Cherry Valley, New York. Just east of Cooperstown off of route 20.

To a spot that I have never forgotten and never will.

And I hope my Dad can see the grandson he never met, sitting beside me. Like I sat beside him so many years ago.

And I will have to "hush" him like my Dad "hushed" me.

Not sure how I'll handle it....

Some of you will know what I mean.


Mark H

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