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Lake Placid Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Lake Placid, United States
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In the USA for 6 months
This is a top pick! 2 days in Lake Placid admiring the fall colours. It was raining the afternoon I arrived. I walked around Lake Placid in the rain. Had pizza for supper. Ordered a medium and I had enough leftovers for a week. Don't know what a large would have looked ...
Countdown Begins...
Well, the countdown REALLY began earlier this week, but with me being a procrastinator, I'm just now finishing last minute tasks so that I can pack for Sunday. Yup, Sunday's the big day. I've gotta tell ya, I feel excited, yet nervous. But anyways, ...
Syracuse to Lake Placid
... . On the way there we drove through the Adirondack Forest Reserve stopping for lunch at a place call Old Forge, then continuing on to Lake Placid pasting through Blue Mountain Lake on the way. We arrived at Lake Placid at 4.00pm and went to check into the ...
Up to Lake Placid
Jacqui, my parents, brothers, and I all went up to Lake Placid to visit the Olympic site and just to spend some time together. We spent a little bit of time shopping at the good sales they had downtown. I got myself a nice $300 leather jacket ...
lake placid, fallin in love
it's not Lake Placid, it's everything around it. The mountains hold wisdom. It's getting to it, it's experiencing it, it's leaving ...
Passage à Lake Placid...
... une jolie petite ville au bord d'un lac où se sont tenus les JO d'hiver de 1932 et 1980. Puis deux nuits pluvieuses et un peu cauchemardesques en ...
Adirondacks in Northern NY
... showed up on Wednesday morning w/ his friend Kimmy and we set off for Adirondack Loj (yes thats how it is spelled) near Lake Placid. It was a bit overcast but not that cold, and the fall colors were absolutely beautiful. Being from Florida, I've never ...
On The Road Again
... and 1980). The first time I came to Lake Placid was with Jeff when we were first dating. Jeff had been to Lake Placid numerous times for hiking and skiing trips with friends. He was bringing me here for us to do some skiing at Whiteface ...
Beautiful Place
... likes of Berlin & Hoosick !! While I was looking for a campsite I passed a Ski/trecking hostel (T Max n Topo's) just outside of Lake Placid with cheap rooms AND I am the only person staying here. Free beer (was left by someone) and honesty pot for ...
Sleigh Ride
So, after we were all beat up from skiing, we passed by a sleigh ride place on the way back to our place. Sue convinced us all that we needed to have a sleigh ride, and we agreed! Turns out it was a good time for Paul and Dan to have a quick ...
Lake Placid
... mid-night just in time to have a deserved dinner in the onl non-closed McDonalds in the town As we discovered in the morning, Lake Placid probably froze in time since the last Olympics in 1980. The furniture in the hotels, the smells and even people on ...
Day 6 - to Lake Placid via Tupper Lake (75 mls)
... and the Raquette River were spectacular as the clouds began to clear out. I stopped to visit the beautiful new nature center and the old Jewish cemetery and synagogue in Tupper Lake. Then on through Saranac Lake and then to Lake Placid. ...
The tourist town from olympics past.
Just 3 hours drive from Montreal just into the states we arrived in Lake placid, Lake placid's claim to fame is they hosted the winter olympics a few years back so basically theres a lot of remnants and hotels and not much else, oh except for those ...
Hudson River to Lake Placid
... a mile or so and walk around the grounds. The fort is remarkably well-preserved. We then followed Hwy 9 over to Lake Placid. We saw a lot of the 1980 Olympic venues and thought the town was a thriving summer venue in addition to being ...
At the Olympic Skating Oval
... gear, plus a layer or two. It was neat to be on the same oval where Eric Heiden won the 5 golds in 1980. The Lake Placid High School is just behind the rink, and provides a stately backdrop to the rink. We were able to do about 4 laps ...
A Placid experience in the Adirondacks
... for them, I am a mild-mannered man. We drove right by some of the venues for the Winter Olympics held here in Lake Placid in 1980. Winter Olympics were held here in 1932 also. Our campsite is beautiful; very wooded (which means no ...
Oh Beautiful Morning!
... my taxi came up the hill and I hopped in. I sat in quiet ponderation as we wound ourselves through the residential areas of Lake Placid and Lake Saranac. The houses were beautiful and old. And the grass the color of old moss. It took my tired mind a ...
Long Conversations
... very poor and he was afraid WhiteFace's resort would go bankrupt.) He talked about being originally from Boston but moved to the Lake Placid area because he loved the simplicity of the area. We talked about Photography and cameras including the ...
Rainy Days and Mondays....
... all on display here. Turns out the guy who invented the Dewey Decimal system was the guy who convinced the world to allow Lake Placid to host the 1932 games. 17 nations particpated back then, and some of the pictures from that era are ...
Day 17 - Ticonderoga
... . Kim was getting very car sick as I was taking the Escape through the corners. We arrived at the Northwoods Inn in Lake Placid, NY. Tonight I’m going to do something I have never done before. Visit two brewpubs in one night. ...
X-Country Skiing and Skating at Lake Placid
... much of its purchasing power over the last few years. I'm a glutton for punishment, though, and I noticed on my trips through Lake Placid village that the Olympic Speed Skating Oval had public skating nightly. Wow! Speed skating is one of my ...
X-Country at Mount Van Hoevenburg, New York
... . Saturday turned out to be a wasted day. The weather forecast was not promising, but somehow I expected that Lake Placid's roughly 1,800 foot elevation would result in a beautiful blizzard of deep snow rather than that stuff TV weathermen ...
Stowe to Lake Placid
... 2 mile long - we stood on the bridge crossing the river to view the water falls etc and the power plant. Coming into Lake Placid town the colours of the trees were amazing. Small town of 2800 people, but swelled to huge numbers in the ...
Lake Placid
... over at få en super lækker GMC firhjulstrækker, der har masser af plads og rigtig lækker komfort. Vi tog derefter direkte op til Lake Placid. En rigtig fed by, der minder en del om Val d'Isere. Vi prøvede at fiske lidt dog uden fangst, og jeg fik ...
orlando 2007 3 wk trip
me and my husband and daughter went on holiday to florida for just over 3 wks it was a fantastic trip full of memories and will stay with me ...
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