Fish Creek Campground near Saranac Inn. Our campsite was right on the lake, but ended up not having an opportunity to swim.
Hiking Cascade Mountain and Mt. Porter, two of the Adirondack High Peaks. It was the most strenuous hike I've ever done. Trail was mostly navigating around boulders on what looked like an old riverbed, but often required scaling sheer granite walls. We didn't have to go on past the summit of Cascade to Mt. Porter but Beckett was excited about doing two high peaks, so onward we went. We couldn't figure out where the summit was but we did summit two bald mountains that looked like they might be the summit, so we're counting it as a win. Beckett bounded up every trail, often waiting for me to catch up. We had great conversations about everything under the sun, in between my catching my breath. We were low on snacks and water, as I did not expect the hike to take 6 hours, and had a hard time finding lunch afterward because it was so late in the afternoon. The summit of Cascade was totally fogged in when we got there (around 10:30am) but on the way back down as the fog cleared we had some good views.
Once we got a little food in our bellies we wanted to see some good views but without hiking to get there. We took the Whiteface gondola (twice!) up to the top of Little Whiteface and enjoyed some great views on the way up and down and (on the second trip) at the top out to Lake Placid.
