After several 90+ degree days, today we had our first major cold front of the season. The day was ideal for a trip up Whiteface Mountain's Veterans' Memorial Highway. We had brought a picnic lunch and what a view we had at one of the pull-offs along the road up. Saranac Lake is in the background...
We still had a couple of thousand feet to go up before the highest parking area...
Once we were at the gift shop area, we looked back down to the road we just drove up (and we thought we were high when we had lunch?!).
It was ironic to be looking down at Lake Placid, when a few weeks ago we were on the lake looking up at the mountain.
Amazingly it wasn't even that cold or windy at the the top. 71 degrees at the bottom and 64 at the top. There was very little wind too, so Dave headed up these stairs to the summit trail (I don't do well with heights and this is a rough trail with no handrails at times).
He made it and well worth the extra effort! He must be a mountain goat! 😉
I know, or at least hope, we will have more time on the water once Labor Day is over, but this trip got us ready for fall adventures checking out places and trails by land.
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