And yes – we had no idea how long the trail was, how difficult the trail was, or even where it led.įortunately, signage at the trailhead indicated that there was a 4-mile out-and-back to Flume Knob. The sign was brown and had little hiker stick figures – and that was good enough for us! Sure… it wasn’t the hike we planned. Adam looked at me and we knew instantly that we were going to stop and check it out. But as luck would have it, we passed a sign on the road labeled ‘Flume Trails’. We walked the network of trails and marveled at the impressive waterfall plunging through the chasm! After about an hour, we’d seen all there was to see and decided we’d try and figure out a way to get back to the house and spend the afternoon relaxing and enjoying our comfy little cabin. I guess no one else even tried to fight the Ironman traffic. It looked pretty!’ As it turned out, we had the entirety of this popular tourist stop all to ourselves. I told Adam ‘Go there – I remember reading about that place. It was impressive The sign that caught our attention The trailhead for Flume Knob.Įventually, we came upon a sign for High Gorge Falls. Below: Before climbing to Flume Knob, we hiked the network of engineered paths around High Gorge Falls. We both agreed it was a pretty disappointing start to the trip – after spending 11 hours in the car on Saturday, we were ready to hit the trail! Flume Falls is a beautiful rapid of water that passes through a gorge right at the trailhead. We watched racers passing by on their bicycle leg in the closed lane of traffic. At this point, cell service was gone and we didn’t have any way to select a new hike that we could actually get to. Boooo! We were forced onto a very long, one-way, circuitous route around the race – a route that took us nowhere near our planned hike. All the rerouting on the GPS was due to real-time road closures for the Ironman. Finally, we came upon a police officer directing traffic. Our GPS kept re-routing us and the drive time to the trailhead fluctuated wildly from 20 minutes to an hour and 10 minutes. With GPS coordinates set and maps in hand, we set out toward our trailhead. We had initially selected a nice 9-mile waterfall loop – away from Lake Placid, in hopes of avoiding the race traffic. What we didn’t know was that it was the day of the Lake Place Ironman and most roads in the area would be closed in at least one direction – some roads closed completely. We had seen signs along the way to our cabin saying ‘ALERT: Lake Placid Heavy Race Traffic Sunday’. We arrived late on a Saturday evening, so Sunday was the first day we had to hike. We found a delightful cabin in the woods on and rented it for a full week. Well… here we are in New York’s Adirondacks! We’ve wanted to visit the High Peaks region for years, and finally got around to making it happen. ![]() But really, a little summer misery can’t spoil a view like this! Most of our week was hot, hazy and humid - just like Virginia. View the Full Album of Photos From This Hike On our Adirondacks trip, the area set heat records. Up first… Flume Knob – this surprisingly tough 4-miler leads to a beautiful view looking toward Wilmington and the Jays. For our next five posts we’ll be sharing hikes in the Adirondacks High Peaks region.
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