For one of my geology classes, we made a trip down to Lowville to study outcrops of sedimentary rocks. I loved this outcrop and how it is cut through by a beautiful waterfall. Did you know that most of the North Country was underwater while the Adirondack Mountains were being created?

Last weekend, I went for an early morning hike up Azure, a trail I'd never tried before. It was so rewarding, especially just post-peak leaf season. The summit has a firetower that allows for spectacular 360 views, and was a great place for a snack and a quick rest!

Gore mountain was a place that I went when I was younger to snowboard. I had never seen the mountain without snow and it looked very different. The differences were, my purpose for being there was different, there was an abundance of color and the forests were not bare. My friends and I were hiking the mountain and would stop every once and while to look at the view behind us. After a while down at the bottom there was this beautiful pond that had so many colors from the trees surrounding the perimeter that reflected back out of the water.

My daughter and I just had to stop and take a picture of this beautiful creek. I could easily see myself spending a day at this creek as it was so peaceful. This was on a side road in Lowville.

My Recreation Ecology class at St. Lawrence took a day hike up to the top of Blue Mountain (not Azure) on a perfect fall day. Blue Mountain Lake was looking beautiful surrounded by the vast array of colors on the trees down below.

The accumulated rain in Canton over the course of the past three days, has lead to some exaggerated flooded of the Little and Grasse Rivers. Over two inches of rain in the past 48 hours have lead to an overflowing river system. With most of the ground already saturated, the water table has risen to a flood state, negatively impacting the recreational trails surrounding the waterways, but positively reseting the aquatic ecosystem for the future.

On a mission to collect drone footage of Lampson and fall colors from above, but we took a few from the ground as well.

Paddling along the Raquette River from Long Lake, one wouldn't expect to find a marine species drifting down the current in freshwater! I was surprised to discover these freshwater jellyfish (about the size of a dime) floating along the surface of the river by the dozens on Saturday. Was able to find some more info about them here: https://adkwatershed.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/freshwater-jellyfish-cres…

After a swim at Lampson Falls my sister-in-law went to put on her sandals, when to her surprise a young Northern ringneck snake was sunning itself on top of it. It quickly slithered off and hid in some leaf litter at the base of a rock. Northern ringnecks are not poisonous, and their diets consist of earthworms, insects, salamanders, and frogs.