First High Peak: Cascade Mountain

Cascade Mountain: Thursday April,8 2021 12:00pm to 6:00pm David & Rory

I had tried this two weeks before, but there was too much snow (lousy spring snow) and I could not find the actual trail.  I cam back just to see the actual trail head, I only had my Merrill winter street shoes, but I put on YakTrax and with my hiking poles and Rory went for it. Took It very slowly, 6 hours!!!, but got it done  Definitely harder coming down than going up.

The park is planning for closing this trailhead and relocating it off of Rt 73 because of the summer traffic hazards on the overflowing parking slots.

Encountered this not-so-informative sigh on my first attempt (Turns out it was March 24-3 weeks prior)

                                 Rory and me on the peak-fabulous 360 deg, 70 deg in mid April!

On the way up, whole trail is a stream bed of boulders and rocks.

There was an "easy" .7 mile hookup to Porter Mountain, a two-fer, but that would have killed me...so, as usual, do it the hard way.

What is the Easiest Adirondack High Peak to Hike? (article)
https://trailandsummit.com/what-is-the-easiest-adirondack-high-peak-to-hike/

My primary motivation was to get me out of a funk and prove I can do this....and then 45 more!