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Easter egg aircraft on the right side... 🧐

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #Mountain #Mountains #MountainMonday #FotoMontag #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #LakeGeorge #Lake

Easter egg aircraft on the right side... 🧐

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #Mountain #Mountains #MountainMonday #FotoMontag #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #LakeGeorge #Lake

Easter egg aircraft on the right side... 🧐

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #Mountain #Mountains #MountainMonday #FotoMontag #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #LakeGeorge #Lake

Easter egg aircraft on the right side... 🧐

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #Mountain #Mountains #MountainMonday #FotoMontag #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #LakeGeorge #Lake

Easter egg aircraft on the right side... 🧐

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #Mountain #Mountains #MountainMonday #FotoMontag #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #LakeGeorge #Lake

This is *not* the past - it's June 2026... 🧭

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #MonochromeMonday #BlackAndWhite #FotoMontag #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #LakeGeorge #Lake #Steamboat #Photomonday

This is *not* the past - it's June 2026... 🧭

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #MonochromeMonday #BlackAndWhite #FotoMontag #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #LakeGeorge #Lake #Steamboat #Photomonday

This is *not* the past - it's June 2026... 🧭

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #MonochromeMonday #BlackAndWhite #FotoMontag #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #LakeGeorge #Lake #Steamboat #Photomonday

This is *not* the past - it's June 2026... 🧭

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #MonochromeMonday #BlackAndWhite #FotoMontag #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #LakeGeorge #Lake #Steamboat #Photomonday

This is *not* the past - it's June 2026... 🧭

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #MonochromeMonday #BlackAndWhite #FotoMontag #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #LakeGeorge #Lake #Steamboat #Photomonday

Good morning! I will never tire off a pretty mountain view. #Adirondacks #photography

Gray and green... ☁️ ⛰️ 🌿

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #LakeGeorge #Lake #Mountain #Mountains #MountainMonday

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
-- Paul Tillich

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PaulTillich #Ambiguity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

Adirondack Ice Palace, Feb 3, 2018 - built entirely in honor of my birthday of course... Okay maybe not, it's really just a yearly thing... ☺️ ❄️🧊🏰🧊❄️

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #SilentSunday #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark #IcePalace #SaranacLake

Good morning! It's goldenrod season and it gives fields a beautiful yellow color. #adirondacks #photography #august

Good morning! This was on one of our walls this weekend. It was gorgeous. #adirondacks #photography

Bikepacking in the Central Adirondacks, Where Gravel Can Truly Be a Grind

https://mountainvisions.blogspot.com/2026/08/bikepacking-in-central-adirondacks.html

#bikepacking #biketouring #adirondacks #adirondack #biketooter #fedibikes #cycling #bicycle #bicycling #bici #bicicleta #ciclismo #cyclismo #velo

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
-- Albert Einstein

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertEinstein #Geniuses #Intellectuals #ProblemSolving

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
-- John Maynard Keynes

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnMaynardKeynes #Ignorance #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

Bikepacking in the Central Adirondacks, Where Gravel Can Truly Be a Grind

https://mountainvisions.blogspot.com/2026/08/bikepacking-in-central-adirondacks.html

#bikepacking #biketouring #adirondacks #adirondack #biketooter #fedibikes #cycling #bicycle #bicycling #bici #bicicleta #ciclismo #cyclismo #velo

Good morning! It's mid-August and we are seeing a little color in wetlands trees. Not unusual but it is a harbinger of things to come. #adirondacks #photography

Good morning! Today is our last sunrise before 6 am until next April. #LakeChamplain #Adirondacks #photography

Spectaculator Gravel

Bikepacking snowmobile trails and gravel roads in New York's Adirondack Forest Preserve

https://flic.kr/p/2stBpE8

#bikepacking #biketouring #biketooter #fedibikes #adirondacks #adirondack #ISpyNY #YesNY #cycling #bicycle #bicycling #bici #bicicleta #ciclismo #cyclismo #velo

My university is hiring a Research Support Specialist at one of our Adirondack Park (New York, USA) locations.

'The primary purpose of this position is to assist Adirondack Ecological Center (AEC) staff with managing a Wildlands Monitoring project...'
Involves field work in ecological data collection (veg, wildlife), data analysis, supervising field techs, data mgmt/modeling. See post for more details.

https://esf.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=203445
#ScienceJobs #ecology #Adirondacks #fieldwork :boost_requested:

Nice 2015 hike in the Adirondack Mountains of New York... 🍂 🌲 🥾

#ThrowbackThursday #Nature #Scenery #Photography #Photograph #Photo #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark

Don't regret anything in life. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience! When you win, you win. When you lose, you learn.
-- Richard Feynman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Experience #Learning #Life #Regret

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

Bikepacking in the Central Adirondacks, Where Gravel Can Truly Be a Grind

https://mountainvisions.blogspot.com/2026/08/bikepacking-in-central-adirondacks.html

#bikepacking #biketouring #adirondacks #adirondack #biketooter #fedibikes #cycling #bicycle #bicycling #bici #bicicleta #ciclismo #cyclismo #velo

#MountainMonday #Photography #Photograph #Photo #Clouds #Lake #Mountains #LakeGeorge #Adirondacks #AdirondackPark

Good morning! We took a trip over to Crab Island on the New York side of #LakeChamplain and learned about its long US military #history. #adirondacks #adirondackcoast #photography

Six Adirondacks camping sites to paddle, hike or drive to — fall foliage season is coming

https://matadornetwork.com/read/adirondacks-camping-new-york/

#travel #adirondacks #camping

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
-- Helen Keller

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HelenKeller #Failure #Happiness

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

New beta build of Peakist, a peak bagging app for iPhone/iPad/Mac. Set goals or track your achievements. Find new locations to explore.

This release adds photos to your visit logs and displays weather conditions to help you plan your trip.

If you do any #hiking in the Northeastern US give it a try. Lots of lists in the #Catskills and #Adirondacks as well as Maine, New Hampshire & Vermont. Always looking to add new lists/challenges so suggestions are welcome.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/f9ASbSHj

#A2A - Connecting lands and people across the #Algonquin to #Adirondacks region

"For a resilient, ecologically connected #A2ARegion that sustains a full range of native #wildlife and enhances people’s quality of life for generations to come.

The time to reconnect is now.

Nature cannot survive on isolated islands. Between #AlgonquinPark and the Adirondacks, a crisis of fragmentation is unfolding.

Roads, development, and borders have severed ancient migratory pathways, trapping wildlife in habitat pockets too small to sustain genetic diversity, find food, or adapt to a rapidly changing climate. When we isolate nature, we weaken the very systems that sustain us.

The A2A region is a continental lifeline. As one of the last remaining large-scale, #IntactForest and #wetland linkages in #EasternNorthAmerica, this corridor represents our best opportunity to ensure wildlife can move north–south across the #GreatLakes – #SaintLawrence system.

Our mission is to heal and reconnect these landscapes. We must repair these broken links to restore the interconnected web of biodiversity that sustains the health of our region and the resilience of the entire continent."

Learn more:
https://a2acollaborative.org/

#SolarPunkSunday #WildlifeCorridor #PreserveTheForest #ReconnectNature #US #Canada #Biodiversity #Interconnectedness #RestoringNature #NorthAmerica #NatureCorridors

Forest gate in Adirondacks near Lake Placid, June 2026 #nature #adirondacks #photography #newyork

Hype for the Future 251/284: Hamilton and Essex Counties, New York

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/hype-for-the-future-251-284-hamilton-and-essex-counties-new-york/

Bigfoot remains a moneymaking hoax

Once again, someone has rather uncreatively posed a hairy man prop as an amazing find and put it on display for all the rubes to pay to see.

This time, it’s at the New York State Fair.

Dack

Self-titled Bigfoot expert Charles “Snake” Stuart claims to have found a dead Bigfoot specimen in the Adirondack Mountains in October 2024. A hastily cobbled together website at BigfootRemains.com shows the body. The site also contains a Press Release which details a trail of nonsense that describes the 8ft creature as Neanderthal-human hybrid coined “Dack”. There is sciencey fluff about his technique and the DNA results. He pretends to do a news interview. He wants money for more research. It’s all laughably bad.

There are many reports of Bigfoot in the New York mountains, so the basis for the claim was not extreme (as cryptid claims go). This is very much a pop cryptid example as the story is more about making bank than making history with a scientific find. There is nothing about this that is remotely believable; it’s designed for entertainment.

While I haven’t sought out the Bigfoot community response, I suspect it is overwhelmingly negative. They are pretty serious folk. Oh wait… this just floated in from infamous legit serious Bigfoot guy Matt Moneymaker with the BRFO:

Oh, he’s pissed, poor thing.

It’s likely there will be a few who are so gullible that they think this is real. Nevertheless, it’s getting some publicity so I bet it will be popular. For my own little side show, I hastily cobbled together a history of related cryptid gaffs.

Hank

Before there was Dack, there was Hank. In fact, Dack looks a lot like Hank. Maybe they are related. Hank was a hoaxed body created by Rick Dyer in 2014 made of of latex, foam and camel hair that Dyer and a partner toured around the US charging people $10 a head. According to the San Antonio Express News, they pocketed $60,000 before the jig was up. Dyer had claimed that he had shot the creature in Texas. This was a classic story of “fool me twice” because Dyer was already an established Bigfoot con artist so you were kind of daft if you fell for this a second time.

Georgia Bigfoot Body

Dyer and Matthew Whitton claimed to have encountered several Bigfoots in the Georgia woods in 2008. They dragged one huge dead body out and put it in a freezer, releasing a photo to the press. Partnering with well established Bigfoot huckster Tom Biscardi, they held a press conference revealing more photos. Many Bigfoot believers wanted this to be “the real deal” as Biscardi called it. But the hoax was short-lived. When the time came to examine the real body, the fakers bolted and the jig was up. It was a suit with added animal guts. This is the episode Moneymaker cites in his Facebook rant screenshotted above. I think these chuckleheads were trying to pull off another Minnesota Iceman caper, but they were too witless.

Minnesota Iceman

These hoaxes followed a pretty successful gaff that is still discussed today: the Minnesota Iceman. Originally known as the Siberskoye Creature, Frank D. Hansen’s specimen of a hairy ape man encased in ice, made the rounds in the US and Canada in 1968. Hansen’s tale of how he came to have the creature changed repeatedly. It had been found floating as a block of ice off the coast of Siberia (if this sounds like a Scooby Doo episode, that’s because it was), or it shot in Vietnam and transferred to the US, or Hansen shot it himself in Minnesota. The Iceman garnered attention from the founders of cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan Sanderson who visited Hansen’s specimen (still encased in ice) and came away believing it was a real hominid carcass. Heuvelmans even wrote about it as real. The story of the Iceman is wild. Hit the TetZoo site for more. The conclusion is, you guessed it, it was a hoax – a latex prop made to appear like it had been shot in the eye. Creative! The ice did the job of obscuring the details. Clever! However, when government officials came sniffing around, Hansen stated the real body had been retrieved by the owner and he was using a replica prop instead. Convenient.

Step Right Up

There are many other examples of cryptid hoaxes – constructed, dead, or alive – that have been displayed in public for a fee. P.T. Barnum was great at this. He gave us the Cardiff Giant (actually a replica of a fake), and the Feejee mermaid in the mid 1800s. The “real” fake Cardiff Giant was supposedly a lithified giant man whose appearance was a sensation in New York in 1869. Created by George Hull, who spend a large amount of cash to have it constructed, he cleared a tidy profit by the end. Funny enough, a Facebook comment on “Dack” called it the Cardiff Giant 2.0. Eh, that commenter forgot a few examples in between.

The infamous Hodag of the late 1890s was a constructed beast from the Wisconsin woods that was so popular that it became the mascot for the town of Rhinelander. Gene Shepard was a noted storyteller and jokester, it’s unlikely many people believed this mash-up monster was real. Today, the Hodag has his own store and traveling shop that appears at cryptid town festivals.

The Jersey Devil, known in 1785 as the Leeds Devil, was advertised as being live on exhibit at Philadelphia’s Arch Street Museum for 10-cents admission. The “devil” was a cruelly concocted hoax where a kangaroo was painted with fake wings and prodded to jump around. The stunt didn’t save the sad excuse for a museum, which closed.

I’m sure I’m missing some examples. What we are seeing here is the art of the hoax. The audience always forgets that real discoveries aren’t made this way. They want to hope, and get a glimpse of something fascinating. Instead, they either get a rude awakening or they laugh at the joke that they willingly fell for. Maybe that’s worth a dime. But not much more.

#Adirondacks #Bigfoot #BigfootHoax #cryptidHoax #fakeBigfoot #GeorgiaBigfootHoax #hoax #MinnesotaIceman #NewYorkStateFair #RickDyer #TravelingHoaxes

https://sharonahill.com/?p=10164

started a #wikipedia article on #Adirondacks hotelkeeper and herbalist, Emma Camp Mead (1866-1934): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Camp_Mead @wikiwomeninred #IndianLake #Oneida #Abenaki

And that Mirror Lake ice is definitively out for the year! Screengrab below from the Ausable River Association camera livestream just now. https://www.ausableriver.org/watershed/lakes/mirror-lake/mirror-lake-livestream

We went from pretty complete ice cover on Tuesday to wet around the edges on Wednesday to patchy partial ice Thursday to no ice today. #Spring has come to the #Adirondacks and #LakeChamplainBasin.

#52LakeChamplain #LakePlacid #MirrorLake #IceOut #LakeIce