The Adirondacks are the largest wilderness area on the east coast, they call it a civilized wilderness, because it has picturesque villages wthin it’s borders. It’s a huge area, 6 million acres, and the range of outdoor activities includes everything from fishing, hiking, kayaking, white water rafting, mountain climbing, mountain biking, and more. Riding bicycles here is challenging, but the scenery is beautiful, with deciduous forest and lakes. Once again we are only glimpsing just a hint of what is here as we pedal by at 10 miles an hour. As we were leaving Pulaski (Puh las ki, long I sound) there were road signs with a silhouette of a horse and buggy, and sure enough we saw a couple of buggies on the road. One was being driven by a boy who looked about 16, he waved as we rode by. We also saw a field with a horse drawn binder for alfalfa. Even though Randy and I both grew up on farms, neither of us had ever seen a field with bound alfalfa instead of bales. We passed a couple of motorcyclists, stopped looking at a map. Later they passed us and honked, and still later we caught up with them at a cafe in Osceola. We talked about trips, both bicycle and motorcycle, and looked at maps of our route. As we left Osceola we met Christine bicycling east from Bar Harbor to Astoria, almost the reverse of our route. Today we generally have followed the Moose River to Old Forge. This area of the Adirondacks is a major white water rafting area and in the winter it is a snowmobile area, even though most of the Adirondacks are closed to snowmobiles.

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