More Lake Placid

There is so much to do here. Tonight we will be attending a one man play, Defending the Caveman, at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts; tomorrow night a figure skating show and Sunday night its back to the Center for the Arts for the Lake Placid Sinfonietta otherwise known as the Orchestra of the Adirondacks. This is an amazing group of musicians. Lake Placid attracts some of the country's finest musicians who spend their summers here. It is all classical music. They perform twice a week and we just don't miss any of their performances. The Sinfonietta is one of our top attractions to the Adirondacks that keeps us coming back here. Unfortunately I cannot send you photos so I'll continue with other attractions.

Lake Placid not only has summer Nordic ski jumping they also have summer extreme ski jumping. This guy is the National Champion of Russia. He is about 72' in the air and has just started a jump with three loops and a couple of twists. These extreme jumpers land in a huge 750,000 gallon pool. Now water makes for an extremely hard landing but this pool is heavily bubbled making for a soft landing. These guys put on shows every Wednesday and Saturday. During the rest of the week several skiers are on a rigid schedule hoping to make the US Olympic team.

With the rain driven high waters, cars are now driving in Lake Champalin to get on the Lake Champlain ferry. The lake is about as high as it can get without flooding homes and shutting down waterfront businesses. Only a couple of inches of the breakwater at Burlington, VT is above water. I would hate to try navigating into that harbor at night. I doubt if radar would pick it up.

Today is the first day of 0% chance of rain in a long time. So, it's up to the top of Whiteface Mountain this morning. That is Lake Placid from the top of Whiteface. Some of you contemporaries will recall Kate Smith's singing, When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain. She was singing about the view of the moonrise over Whiteface from her Lake Placid home.

Our spacious, woodsy, private campsite. You can't get much better than this.

Front view. We will be here until August 1. We have very poor cell phone service here so if you want to get in touch with us either, leave a message on our phone, or a comment on this blog or e-mail us. More on Lake Placid in future editions.