This picture was taken at Paul Smith's College Visitor Interpretive Center (VIC). The VIC is located within the Adirondack state Park borders. The Adirondack State park is the largest state park in the United States at 6.1 Million square miles. That’s larger than many of the most infamous national parks our country has to offer such as Yellowstone and the grand canyon to name a few. A good portion of the land that is currently in the Adirondack state park boundaries was part of the Mohawk first nations until the early 1700’s. This land was taken in the form of treaties and outright seizure. Its wasn’t until the mid 1800’s that Verplanck Colvin sitting on top of Seward mountain penned a message to the government that it was critical the land be protected. It was finally in 1885 that legislation was passed declaring the area within the Adirondack Park and neighboring Catskill park was never to be sold and in fact protected. Today a ballpark estimate of seven to ten million people visit the park each year. Cross country skiing through the snowy woods of the VIC My partner and I came out from the dense snowy woods onto a sweeping open almost tundra like plane as can be seen in the photo. What initially captured my attention browsing through my photos was the fact that you could see the small flakes of snow descending from the sky onto the snow- filled field. In addition upon closer inspection of the field you can see a beautiful flow of open water into ice and back into running water. It begins to resemble the arteries of the land flowing through the crowd