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4Th Quarter 2020 NORTH WOODS NEWS the QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER of the NORTH WOODS CHAPTER of the ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB 4th Quarter 2020 NORTH WOODS NEWS THE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH WOODS CHAPTER OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB Ampersand Summit 9/18/2020 photo by Jess From our Chapter Chairperson Welcome to Fall! As beautiful as the Adirondacks are all year round, they are definitely awesome in the Fall. Every year I ask if anyone remembers the leaves being as outstanding, are the reds redder this year, do the oranges seem day-glow? All I know is I feel very thankful to be living amongst such beauty. I guess many, many people want to share in our experience based on the number of people we run into on our trails, on the water and on our roads. It’s suddenly the place to be and we’re already here! How lucky are we! As you know, last quarter’s newsletter didn’t have any trip reports because we didn’t have any trips in the spring. Boring!! Outings with guidelines were added over the summer and those trip reports are included in this newsletter. Exciting!!! Enjoy! Our 4th Quarter Outings schedule has been published with a few final paddles, numerous hikes, a golfing event and our hike into Copperas Pond with a hot dog roast at the pond. Many of us are finding that not only do we like our activities for the view and the exercise but the socializing is important. We seem to paddle slower and circle up for a conversation, our lunches at the mountain tops are longer so we have time to enjoy one another’s company. Please join the North Woods Chapter for our socially distanced activities and catch up with your friends! Gretchen CHAPTER OFFICERS and Secretary: Susan Omohundro Conservation: John Omohundro COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS Treasurer: Elisabeth Craven Membership: Elisabeth Craven Chairman: Gretchen Gedroiz Director - Kathy O’Kane Newsletter: Jim Edmonds Vice Chair: Kathy O’Kane Outings: Carol Edmonds Programs: Marilyn Gillespie 4th Quarter 2020 Director’s Report by Kathy O’Kane, North Woods Chapter Representative on the Adirondack Mountain Club Board of Directors ADK Board of Directors Meeting - October 3, 2020 (Via Zoom) Highlights of the Board of Directors meeting include: • The ADK new Bylaws vote counting is scheduled to take place on October 14 through the tellers appointed by President Andrews. • The Adirondack Loj phased re-opening has allowed for solid bookings over the summer with about 65% capacity and with bunk rooms operating as single family units. Meals are not being served family style but with individual tables and service. After being shut down for the summer, Johns Brook Lodge is now open and running at 50% capacity. The High Peaks Information Center opened to limited indoor capacity and shows strong sales for retail and rental items, as well as providing information. • In response to increased impacts in the Forest Reserve caused by a large influx of inexperienced hikers, a series of education videos were produced targeting novice hikers. These videos shared on social media and with local tourism agencies covered topics from camping at designated sites to digging a cathole. Two videos were also produced in partnership with the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program targeting paddlers. To view, click on You Tube in the upper right corner of the adk.org home page. • The ADK trail work crew completed five projects this summer including: Avalanche Lake-Lake Colden Connector, Salmon River Falls, Mount Haystack, and the North Country National Scenic Trail. More information can be found on adk.org and search for “trail work 2020”. • Seasonal Summit Stewards had a busy season interacting and doing essential eduction with a very novice group recreating in the High Peaks Wilderness. • Membership report as of 8/31/20 - 17,691member households which includes the 558 essential workers who took advantage of the free membership offer in June. • The next Board meeting is December 5, 2020. Please Note: Due to our current circumstances, the potluck suppers have been suspended for this quarter. In addition, we will not have an annual meeting this year. Contributions will be put on hold until we can meet together again. Kathy O’Kane has agreed to serve a second term as our Director. Page 2 4th Quarter 2020 The History Corner by the History Guy Rainbow Lake Rainbow Lake, which our chapter has paddled many times, has been the scene of much history. This is the first of at least two stories about goings-on there. From the 1870s into the early twentieth century, Rainbow Inn on the northwest shore hosted hunters, fishers, and summer vacationers. A fat book of memoirs by James Manchester Wardner, its builder and proprietor, relates its significant place among the tourist destinations of the region, such Paul Smith’s Hotel and the Meacham Hotel. (Footprints and Sunset on Adirondack Trails, 2010). Like Smith, a long-time friend, Wardner also seems to have been present or had a hand in a great deal of local development. Wardner was born in 1831 on a Chestertown farm and spent his youth taking hunting and fishing trips along the Saranac River. He climbed Whiteface Mountain, from which he admired “Lac Alambie” (Lake Placid) and the hamlet of North Elba. After a stint as a teamster moving provisions west to Ohio, he returned to the mountains. He contracted with an Albany firm to deliver two tons of venison to Port Kent each spring. For much of the 1850s, he and his two partners lived near Osgood Pond, hunting, trapping, and collecting honey. They stocked up in Bloomingdale and occasionally passed through the small sawmill village of Saranac Lake. Wardner met Paul Smith during his time as a market hunter, when both were planning to offer accommodation to “sports” from the city. Wardner built a camp a little bit east of Grassy Pond, calling it Rainbow. While operating it, he met and admired John Brown (although later he counseled Brown not to go to Harpers’ Ferry). He also watched Ahaz Hayes establish a colony of free black farmers along Negro Brook (north of Bloomingdale, visible on the bog trail). For a time in the late ‘50s, Wardner guided for Smith’s hotel. One of his clients was the painter A. F. Tait, whose painting of Wardner’s tourist cabin adorns the cover of the memoir. Probably his most amazing guiding adventure involved him leading two Englishmen, on a bet, from Osgood Pond by canoe to Albany. Wardner reports that in 1841, residents in southern Duane township were tired of traveling so far north as Duane Center to town meetings so they spun off the southern half as Harrietstown, named after supervisor Duane’s wife. A decade later, with Smith, Wardner split off the western portion of Duane to create the town of Brighton, Page 3 4th Quarter 2020 and served as its supervisor for many years. He completed a farmhouse near the shores of Rainbow Lake in 1860, married his childhood sweetheart, Delia, and established “Rainbow Inn.” When Delia died he married Addie, who like Paul Smith’s Lydia became central to the operation of the inn’s business. The inn was a temperance establishment from the outset: no liquor was served. Fires enhanced by the dry slash that loggers left behind often swept through the region, leveling the settlements housing the sawmills and loggers. Wardner was burnt out by one of these in 1873. While rebuilding, he leased a sawmill on the Saranac River from the Englishman Keese, of Keese’s Mills. In the 70’s a dependable wagon road was built across the large Toof Marsh, now known as Bloomingdale Bog, improving stage travel of tourists and provisions to and from the The Rainbow Inn Champlain ports. The stage line began running right past his inn on its way to Plattsburgh. As a result, the Rainbow Post Office was established in his hotel. The first telephone line was strung to the inn from Saranac Lake village in 1884. Wardner enhanced his Rainbow setting by damming the lake’s south end and raising the water level by six feet. Paul Smith operated his tourist stage, pulled by six white horses, past the Jones Pond outlet, then Wardner’s Rainbow Inn, and on to Loon Lake and Plattsburg’s railroad depot. The white horse concept was apparently suggested by Smith’s guest P. T. Barnum. The Rainbow Hotel The Chateaugay Railroad laid a line from Plattsburg toward Saranac Lake through Toof Marsh in 1887. That’s our walking trail today. Why doesn’t it come all the way to the village? Wardner ran a stage for his guests from his own station on that line to his inn. Then Seward Webb built his Adirondacks and St. Page 4 4th Quarter 2020 Lawrence Railroad right past the Rainbow Inn. This line went to Montreal and was later a segment of the New York Central. Wardner helped the Sisters of Charity select a location for their sanatorium in 1894. The Gabriels Sanatorium, only the second in the region, eventually became Paul Smith’s Forestry school, then a state prison, and now awaits a new function. Wardner died in 1903. In 1910, the inn became the site of the Independent Order of Foresters' Rainbow Sanatorium. The Bard of Birch Street The Bard of Birch Street is an Adirondack curmudgeon who Elegy on the Summer Outings rarely speaks, but when he does, his every utterance is in the form Three months have passed since the start of July, of a limerick. But the summer went fast, those three months sped by. Owl’s Head feels like last week, Just ‘ere paddling South Creek . We’d good times in those three months, you and I,.
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