New Guidebook available

[stripperguy]

Well, it's new to me!!
Take a look, some of you will enjoy this Descriptive guide to the Adirondacks...
http://books.google.com/books?id=X9-...he+adirondacks
I have committed most of this journal to memory and will soon be travelling the routes described. (I wish)

[coolrobc]

That's AWESOME!

[Crash]

Really cool - I've been reading this for hours.

Here's an interesting passage on page 221 (I presume Wallace is refering to Paradox Bay on Lake Placid - as shown on the Paddler's Map):

"Paradox Pond connects with Lake Placid at its southern extremity by a narrow straight, its only inlet or outlet. A curious phenomenon gives this sheet its name. A swift current of water flows from the lake into the pond for a space of 3 or 4 minutes, and after an interval of about 7 minutes the current is reversed - the water discharging into the lake again. This mysterious action is of perpetual occurrence."

Has anybody ever heard of this? I can't believe this actually happens.

[Adk Keith]

Really cool - I've been reading this for hours.

Here's an interesting passage on page 221 (I presume Wallace is refering to Paradox Bay on Lake Placid - as shown on the Paddler's Map):

"Paradox Pond connects with Lake Placid at its southern extremity by a narrow straight, its only inlet or outlet. A curious phenomenon gives this sheet its name. A swift current of water flows from the lake into the pond for a space of 3 or 4 minutes, and after an interval of about 7 minutes the current is reversed - the water discharging into the lake again. This mysterious action is of perpetual occurrence."

Has anybody ever heard of this? I can't believe this actually happens.

Could be seiche. Don't know about Lake Placid, but it is pretty well documented in Lake George.

[reindeergirl]

Well, it's new to me!!
Take a look, some of you will enjoy this Descriptive guide to the Adirondacks...
http://books.google.com/books?id=X9-...he+adirondacks
I have committed most of this journal to memory and will soon be travelling the routes described. (I wish)

Oh, that's swell - thank you for posting it.

Do you have this? Did you get the first edition?

[stripperguy]

reindeergirl,
Don't I wish!! No, I happened upon this book while researching an upcoming canoe trip...I really enjoy the descriptions and alternate names for the places we visit even now.
Only a few weeks ago I was buying some stuff from Bissel's, in Newcomb. Then I read in this 120-130 year old book a reference to Bissel Mill...imagine that, same family and general locale for that many years, pretty cool...

[reindeergirl]

reindeergirl,
Don't I wish!! No, I happened upon this book while researching an upcoming canoe trip...I really enjoy the descriptions and alternate names for the places we visit even now.
Only a few weeks ago I was buying some stuff from Bissel's, in Newcomb. Then I read in this 120-130 year old book a reference to Bissel Mill...imagine that, same family and general locale for that many years, pretty cool...

Yes, that is very cool, stripperguy. Yesterday I was lost on a salt marsh on Cape Cod (which is pretty hard to do, get lost on a salt marsh there, since there's always some structure in sight), and then came on a book in a used bookshop, on the old saltworks. That was after finding my way off the marsh. I'm a hopeless case.

I love those stories about the old families. A special book you cited, indeed.

[randomscooter]

Really cool - I've been reading this for hours.

Here's an interesting passage on page 221 (I presume Wallace is refering to Paradox Bay on Lake Placid - as shown on the Paddler's Map):

"Paradox Pond connects with Lake Placid at its southern extremity by a narrow straight, its only inlet or outlet. A curious phenomenon gives this sheet its name. A swift current of water flows from the lake into the pond for a space of 3 or 4 minutes, and after an interval of about 7 minutes the current is reversed - the water discharging into the lake again. This mysterious action is of perpetual occurrence."

Has anybody ever heard of this? I can't believe this actually happens.

I believe Paradox lake (south of Schroon lake) is named for a similar phenomenon. It's outlet flows into the Schroon River with little elevation loss. When the Schroon River is high the flow of the lake's outlet reverses, becoming an inlet. I've never seen it, but looking at the topo it seems believable.

[Adk Keith]

I believe Paradox lake (south of Schroon lake) is named for a similar phenomenon. It's outlet flows into the Schroon River with little elevation loss. When the Schroon River is high the flow of the lake's outlet reverses, becoming an inlet. I've never seen it, but looking at the topo it seems believable.

Paradox Lake is actually north of Schroon, but yup, the outlet becomes an inlet every spring.