What does one do after they spend 8 hours sitting at a trailhead talking to hundreds of people?  They go for a hike, of course!  It was peak foliage or damn near it this weekend, and it was busy.  I wanted to do Mt. Jo just to get a GPS track of it for the Lake Placid 9 and to see the new long trail.  I get down to Loj, and it's a mad house.  There were actually rangers ticketing people on Loj road for illegal parking.  I turn around and go down meadows lane to do Mt.

A while ago, a friend from my ADF days and I were talking about hiking as she had started hiking the Whites in New Hampshire, and I had already finished my 46er.  I told her that I would love to show her "my" mountains some day, whenever she wanted to.  Well, this memorial day was the time for me to show her.  My original plans were to come in from the south, backpack into the Lake Colden/Flowed Lands area and grab some peaks out of there like Marshal, Marcy, Skylight, Grey, and Colden, but the one place she had to go was Avalanche Pass/Lake.

So, this weekend, Michael and I spent the weekend at ADK Loj and did some hikes.... Well, the weekend weather turned back to winter, or so it seemed.  Saturday it rained all day as a drizzle and was in the 40's with wind chills on the highest of the peaks being well below freezing.  So, with that in mind we did a couple of the Lake Placid 9.