High Falls Loop - Adirondacks, NY

**georgecarr** · 12-06-2015, 17:28

Here's a link to my latest trip report on Walking With The Son: http://walkingwiththeson.com/?p=1150

**AlanH** · 12-06-2015, 18:00

Looked like a good time. New York has so many good spots to go. Here in Vermont there doesn't seem to be a many maintained trails. Hiked a trail near McKeever N.Y. It was beautiful, had a waterfall and a bear too. I believe it was Rasmussun Falls. Look forward to your next trip report.
Take care, Al

**DuctTape** · 12-06-2015, 20:03

It has been a while since I have hiked that section. Last time I was there, the log of death wasnt part of the adventure. I do recall a beaver pond where we crossed the dam and went around it. Might be the same one, or not. Anyway, it is a great area. I keep meaning to go back.

**g2outdoors** · 12-07-2015, 06:55

That's a great loop. When I did it this past spring there were a bunch of walking sticks on either side of the Beaver log. We used them for balance and politely left them at the other side of the log for the next hikers. I guess so the sticks were MIA?

**Yukon** · 12-07-2015, 07:34

Originally Posted by AlanH

Looked like a good time. New York has so many good spots to go. Here in Vermont there doesn't seem to be a many maintained trails. Hiked a trail near McKeever N.Y. It was beautiful, had a waterfall and a bear too. I believe it was Rasmussun Falls. Look forward to your next trip report.
Take care, Al

Vermont is my absolute favorite place to hike, there are great trails all over the place. Not even including my favorite one, the Long Trail!

**georgecarr** · 12-07-2015, 10:04

Originally Posted by g2outdoors

That's a great loop. When I did it this past spring there were a bunch of walking sticks on either side of the Beaver log. We used them for balance and politely left them at the other side of the log for the next hikers. I guess so the sticks were MIA?

Fort Drum, you're right there! Lucky you! If there were any suitable sticks there I didn't notice. It wouldn't be half as bad if they had done a more thorough job hewing the top of the log. I guess the trail maintainers had to add an obstacle to up the difficulty slightly, lol.

**General Posts** · 12-07-2015, 10:52

Myself and Zwarbyt just completed this trip on Black Friday, but in the opposite direction. The "log of death" was definitely a nail biter, especially in reverse with a coating of frozen sleet.

Also, as of Late November the first Mile of both the Eastern and Western portions of the loop have been cleaned up by trail crews and beaver damning in those areas have been taken care of, so for the time being, that first and last mile are dry.

g2outdoors - The sticks you speak of were still there as of Black Friday, but only on the East Side. we found them after we crossed.11215844_10153191447165796_368121882941347893_n.jpg

**georgecarr** · 12-07-2015, 11:50

Originally Posted by General Posts

Myself and Zwarbyt just completed this trip on Black Friday, but in the opposite direction. The "log of death" was definitely a nail biter, especially in reverse with a coating of frozen sleet.

Also, as of Late November the first Mile of both the Eastern and Western portions of the loop have been cleaned up by trail crews and beaver damning in those areas have been taken care of, so for the time being, that first and last mile are dry.

g2outdoors - The sticks you speak of were still there as of Black Friday, but only on the East Side. we found them after we crossed.11215844_10153191447165796_368121882941347893_n.jpg

Yikes! That was sketchy enough when it was dry.

**WalksIn2Trees** · 12-07-2015, 14:34

You might actually have had Aurora that night... It doesn't always look like ribbons in the sky, like you see in movies, sometimes it looks like the glow of a city in the distance, maybe faint enough that you question your eyes, because you only see it with your peripheral vision. Other times it's white streaks that shoot up from the northern horizon towards the apex, until you notice it though, you likely would miss it.

My first time seeing it, I thought it was the glow of a city. I was driving home from work heading west on I-88, and I kept catching the shifting of color with my peripheral vision, but looking directly at it, I couldn't see the shifting. I know now that it was the subtle shifting that caught my attention, but at the time I remember trying to think what city was in that direction, and there's not any. Because I kept looking at it, eventually my eyes tuned in to it, and I could see very subtle ribboning, and then it occurred to me what it was. It was only one color, pink, but it was my first, so after getting off the highway, I pulled off the road next to a cow farm that was on a hill with northern exposure, killed the lights, shut off the car, and got out to look. With the lights off, I could see it much better, and I sat and watched for a good half hour before I got too cold. My second one was pink and green, but very faint, and the third one was the white streaks I described earlier. Last winter, going north to Plattsburgh the driver of the work-van and I were the only ones awake, when he noticed it very faint near the horizon and thought it was a town. I saw enough to tell him what it was, but he was driving and couldn't really get a good look at it.

**Magnum Power** · 12-07-2015, 17:57

I too was there this spring, same time as g2outdoors. I found a lot of people at High Falls but didnt see anyone the second day. I too want to go back and check out the other parts of the trail. That long log bridge is a interesting crossing even in the best of weather. Next time you go give me a holler.