Last night was the first hard frost at my house in Canton and at camp in Pierrepont.  Layer of ice on the windshield and beautiful ice crystals outlining so many things.  Lovely.

This is the fourth sixer that I have done. It is comparable to St Regis in the fact that it start out very easy then gets steep rapidly. The views are not 360 but they are still good. You have to hike a ways in before you get to where the trail splits into two directions, Haystack on the left and McKenzie on the right. After heading on the trail you come to a damn that is very easy to cross. A nice hike with moderate effort.

St. Lawrence students in the Sustainable Communications class joined Nature Up North on campus to learn tree identification and to start collecting data for the Monitor My Maple citizen science project. After a tour of the four maple species found on the St. Lawrence campus - sugar, red, silver and norway - they jumped into data collection, pairing up and exploring campus trees on their own. While clearly still suffering from the recent tent caterpillar outbreak, maple trees near the SLU fitness center are bursting with seeds and already starting to change color!

Streeter Lake has long been a favorite place for me. Whether it's hiking the old Schuler tract with the "potato patch" and the mausoleum , or paddling the lake-I always enjoy ever minute of it. Definitely an overlooked gem, maybe that's a good thing.

My first time seeing Pitcher-plants.

I was fixing a fence on our family farm and I came upon a raccoon climbing and peeling the bark down and off of a fence post. I took as many photos as I could before he ran back into the woods.

Right across from Upstate Medical Center just outside Saranac Lake

I love to take out of town visitors up Whiteface by car and then walk up the trail to the summit.