“Breakfast today was a keeper,” said Rick. Baked eggs with Canadian Bacon, Swiss cheese, sauteed mushrooms and scallions were paired with fresh cantaloupe and strawberries, with a piece of herb focaccia hot from the masonry heater oven. Mmmm! Does it get any better?
Cuppa coffee in hand, the ladies find the warm bench of the masonry heater an inviting place to be. Shoes were warming beneath the bench for that day’s x-c excursion.
This weekend’s guests took advantage of our Lean-to Lunch Excursion. They set out to snowshoe the Peavine Swamp trail in the Cranberry Lake Wild Forest, then met us at a traditional Adirondack lean-to on the bank of the Oswegatchie river. There we prepared a warming fire and handed out cups of hot chocolate. Piping hot…
Trout season is off to a soggy start. Multiple rain storms are keeping the rivers high and un-wadable . The Brook Trout fishing in the ponds on the other hand have been fantastic with yet another State record broken in the southwestern Adirondacks. The latest record is now 6.2 lbs and 22 inches. When the…
Dinner on Saturday evening was a Rustic Mediterranean Chicken Stew that included vegetables roasted in the masonry heater’s oven. Here we are roasting red, yellow and purple fingerling potatoes and eggplant. You should hear them sizzle! We are expanding our repertoire of items from the oven and having fun at the same time. To date…
Winter has yet to leave the North Country, but this is some of the best snow of the season! It’s not the crunchy, frozen over, yesterday’s slush kind of snow you often have at the end of winter. This is genuine, bright white, delightful to x-c ski/snowshoe on kind of snow. Last Tuesday we had…
We’ve completely revamped our website and hope you like it. The new site will allow us to update content on a regular basis, keeping you informed about what going on at the lodge, on the trails and on the waterways. You will be able to check room and cabin availability and make a reservation request…