The Great Sacandaga

As the title states, this is a view of the Great Sacandaga Lake from Clute's Mountain on the North Shore.  For years different people asked us if we'd been to the "other lookout" on the Sacandaga.  We hadn't, so we placed it on our long list of things to do. But there seemed to be nowhere to park to hike the old dirt logging road to the summit.  My cousin Ron and his wife Pam have a place near there and told us they'd take us "sometime".  Like so many other things, that sometime never seemed to come around.  We would run into them through the years and agree that we had to go.  One bright sunny evening we were all at the Presbyterian church for one of their great public dinners when Ron again asked, "When are we going to go to Clute's?''  Gino and I just said, "Whenever you're ready."  After dinner Ron and Pam asked, "How about right now?"  Sometime had finally come.

Ron drove his new pickup truck slowly and carefully up the steep, boulder strewn road almost to the top.  We hiked the short remaining distance and were greeted with this overwhelmingly beautiful sight.  The evening sun caused some wonderful deep shadows on the mountains. We took a lot of photos and savored the panorama in the clear air. Someone had placed a coffee can containing a notebook under a rock for people to write their thoughts of visits to this spectacular ledge and share the experience.

If we hadn't gone that night, we would never had made it there.  A short time later this mountain was purchased and posted to all visitors. We'll always be thankful that "sometime" finally came that evening.

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