Backpacking the Adirondack Loop - 300 Miles Around the Park

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  • odysseus
    Member
    • Jun 2025
    • 2

    #1

    Backpacking the Adirondack Loop - 300 Miles Around the Park

    Two years ago I mapped out and hiked a big loop around the Adirondacks. I wanted to see as many of the places that interested me as possible in one go. I finally got around to writing up a report of my trip. Access it here. It's a bit lengthy.

    The route covers the entire NPT and some of the NCT. It also visits the high peaks and other spots between. I did this solo and had a wonderful time.
  • DuctTape
    Out of Shape
    • Jul 2006
    • 2134

    #2
    Very cool. Nice write up.

    I have been working on a western connector similar to yours. Mine used what is now the rail trail to connect Placid to the Cranberry Lake trail network, including the CL50.

    See you on the trail. -dT
    "There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us, And the Wild is calling, calling . . . let us go." -from "The Call of the Wild" by Robert Service

    My trail journal: DuctTape's Journal

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    • odysseus
      Member
      • Jun 2025
      • 2

      #3
      Originally posted by DuctTape
      Very cool. Nice write up.

      I have been working on a western connector similar to yours. Mine used what is now the rail trail to connect Placid to the Cranberry Lake trail network, including the CL50.

      See you on the trail. -dT
      Thanks. I like the idea of connecting to the Cranberry Lake area and it looks like that rail trail is the perfect way to do it.

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      • DuctTape
        Out of Shape
        • Jul 2006
        • 2134

        #4
        Originally posted by odysseus

        Thanks. I like the idea of connecting to the Cranberry Lake area and it looks like that rail trail is the perfect way to do it.
        Here is my journal entry from when I did it. https://ducttapeadk.blogspot.com/201...ing-maybe.html
        "There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us, And the Wild is calling, calling . . . let us go." -from "The Call of the Wild" by Robert Service

        My trail journal: DuctTape's Journal

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        • rbi99
          • Sep 2004
          • 522

          #5
          Simply amazing. I have been to many of those same locations - except I took years, not days to see them!!!
          Are you hiding in the shadows - forget the pain, forget the sorrow.

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          • Deb dePeyster
            • Oct 2005
            • 183

            #6
            A great read, thank you for posting this.

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            • stripperguy
              Hangin' by a thread
              • Sep 2006
              • 3978

              #7
              Very cool trip and a great read...
              You gotta come back with a canoe, you missed the better half of the ADK's!!

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