The weather factor I am having to deal with is rain. Its not a deluge, but it is just about a daily occurrence. Usually it rains at night or in the early morning. Camping is actually pleasant in the rain, so long as the tent doesn't leak (and so far it hasn't). It brings with it a pleasing coolness. The only sweltering night of camping so far was at Jekyll Island, Georgia, down in "orange" country. So far, its been nice camping.
I mostly drove the roads of Adirondack Park today. The roads wound a bit and climbed and fell, as you would expect, and the landscape of trees was broken only by lakes and streams. I saw some people fly fishing, but not many in boats. I expect that will change over the long weekend. The most ubiquitous wildlife sighting is of deer, perhaps because they are big enough to see driving along at 50 miles per hour.
I added the French and Indian War to my fort-finding adventures by stopping at Crown Point on Lake Champlain. It was the kind of battle that the cowardly among us most favor. The French had a fort at Crown Point. In 1759, 13,000 British troops supplemented by Indians of the Iroquois Nations advanced on the French fort. When they arrived they found that French had burned down their fort and boated across the lake. Point taken. The British then spent the next four years building the largest fort in America at the time, which was apparently never attacked. They abandoned it at the end of the war, but left a small garrison and some cannon and ammunition. In 1775, about two months after Lexington and Concord, a band of American insurgents helped themselves to the cannon and ammunition and that was that for Crown Point.
Here are a couple of pictures of what is left at Crown Point.
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| Crown Point Redoubt with British Flag Flying |
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| Ruin of Barracks Building At Crown Point Redoubt |
Mileage: 175 Cumulative mileage: 3,205. Today's earworm: "McNamara's Band" Bing Crosby
