Adirondacks, Whiteface Mountain 6/09

After checking out the Americade tents in Lake George we headed up to Inlet, N.Y.

The next day after breakfast we headed for Whiteface Mountain.

Whiteface Mountain is where the downhill skiing was held at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. Whiteface is 4,867 feet high. You can take the bikes up most of the way on Veterans Memorial Highway.

Once on top you can go through a tunnel that is carved into solid rock and runs over 400 feet long into the mountain and take and elevator to the summit.. Or you can hike it. I hiked it but the pictures below are in the tunnel.

You can see Lake Champlain, Lake Placid, Vermont and into Canada on a clear day. For more information on Whiteface you can click on this link http://www.whiteface.com/newsite/summer/highway.php

Lake Placid

BBQ time.

Americade 2009, Lake George, N.Y.

This month was the annual Americade motorcycle rally in Lake George, N.Y. The show was arranged a little different then usual. More vendors by the lake in the tent section and less in town.

A very cool product at the show was from a company called "Rocker Boards." They are making a line of what I would call scooters, seen above. They are made to look like very early bikes. The scooters are automatic and look like they will be a fun novelty bike. They will be available on the market soon.

For more on Americade click here, http://www.tourexpo.com/data/

The weather kept some people away this year. (For those of you from northern New Jersey I don't have to tell you that we have had about 30 straight days of rain). When we left Jersey for Lake George it was pouring rain but it started to clear up around Albany. Then we had good riding weather for the rest of the trip. Check out the next post for a continuation of this trip and a ride to the top of Whiteface Mountain.

Greenwood Lake, West Milford, New Foundland area.

I've blogged about this area before. You can ride to this area right from the N.J. Botanical Garden in Ringwood. (The previous post). This is the N.J., N.Y. border, Greenwood Lake, West Milford, Newfoundland, Green Pound, etc...

It's a great area with unlimited options on where to ride and things to do.

Some of the best days are unplanned. We rode up to the Greenwood lake Airport. As luck would have it they were having an air show.

We got to check out WW 2 bombers and fighters as well as stunt planes.

We got to meet some of the pilots and watch the highly skilled stunt flying.

In the area there are many local places along the road to grab some food and get a drink.