To continue on with my ADK trip leader journey, I have to co-lead 2 level B or higher hikes.  I did the first of those Sunday with doing the upper tongue range and then over to deer leap on the way out.  To me, this is an easy hike apart from the distance, but it's a level B+ because of both the distance and elevation.  As a group though, including stops, we had a pace of 1.5 mph, so it really was a pretty easy hike... and a few of us (myself included) felt like we were going slow, so I was surprised to see that being our pace, or our movement pace being 2 mph on average.

More Lake George 12 today.  I had originally planned to do the entire tongue range, but it was a hot and humid day, so I cut it short by hiking out to Fivemile and then coming back to the top of the tongue.  Overall, this is a beautiful hike, and on the north end not horribly difficult.  The views though, somewhat lacking.  There was a slight view at Brown, nothing at Huckleberry, and you had to scramble up a rock off the trail to get any view at 5 mile.  I fortunately? didn't see any of the rattlesnakes that the tongue range is known for.