In desperate search for adventure during my last day in the Adirondacks, I bought a trail map of the region. Scanning this map, I discovered a particular trail with the warning "Caution" at its end (click on the pic below to see the trail). Given my incessant attraction to risk, this seemed like the perfect opportunity. As I searched the web, I quickly realized that this trail had been closed for several years due to numerous deaths at its destination, T-Lake Falls. Turns out the Falls are the biggest in the Adirondacks and have a greater vertical drop than Niagara. "Cool!" I thought, "just the kind of trail to hike by myself!" To make this adventure a more calculated risk, I did some research on the web, bought a compass and signed in at the Ranger Station. Off we go!
Old school orienteering here. Since this was a bushwhacking adventure and I could pretty much assume I'd get lost, I set the compass up along the trail map so that the arrow would always lead me to the waterfalls.
Video: Bushwhacking. Every once and awhile I could see the remains of the old abanded trail. For the most part, so long as I followed the creek on my right, I was likely to find the Falls.
Video: Tranquility. Alone with nature. I don't think I could achieve more of a high than this.
Getting close to the Falls now!
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