Mount Baker, Adirondacks

August 20, 2018.  We wanted to do a hike on our way to our Air B&B in Lake Placid, to break up the drive.  Mount Baker looked like a reasonable option, a steep hike but under 2 miles there and back.

This first one is from the drive there, it's one of our first good glimpses of the Adirondacks as we drove south from Canada:

I didn't take a lot of photos of the actual trail on the way up.  Adirondack trails (or at least the ones we did) are just hikes through trees, until you get to the summit or close to it.  Here's one of our first peeks at the view:

We made it!  This isn't one of the bald-summit mountains, it's treed, with around 3 little openings to get a view.  Here is Ed:

Proof that I was there too:

The nicest view was into the sun so the photos aren't that great:

Here we are leaving the summit area and headed back down:

This is the pond that we parked beside at the trailhead.

Next up, a peek at what we bought at the Ogdensburg Walmart on the way in ...