Camping Areas in Northern Adirondacks ⛺

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Bog River Flow – Popular canoe area that is popular for camping and paddling. Short portage between Hitchens Pond and Lows Lake. Lows Ledge is a 1 mile hike from the portage up to a ledge with expansive views of lakes and surrounding locations. Good to no cell service depending on location.

Brasher State Forest – Roughly 10 miles south of Malone, this expansive state forest is home to the Walter Pratt Camping Area on Red River Pond. Part of Saint Lawrence Flatlands, this area is largely sandy remote country with vast pine forest. Good cell service.

Chazy Lake – There are two campsites along the end of Wildfred Kingdom Road on Chazy Lake. The end of the road to the campsites is gated, and at times the campsites are marshy, but the views from the campsites are amazing.

Deer River State Forest – The “rough” country just north of Adirondack Park in Franklin County, that has camping in a wild environment that is the transition from the Adirondacks to the Saint Lawrence Flatland, about 10 miles outside of Malone. Limited cell service.

Franklin Falls Pond – There are several tent sites along the shore of Franklin Falls Pond that are a short hike down from the road and right along a popular canoe route. No cell service.

Floodwood Road (St Regis Canoe Area) – A very popular and packed in camping area is along Floodwood Road. I camped there once, I don’t recommend it.

Lake Kushaqua – A very scenic lake with a few campsites along it’s shore, near the Buck Pond Campground. I’ve been told these sites are too good to put out on the Internet and can be very hard to get in season. This lake connects with Rainbow Lake under a culvert, however to reach the upper part of Rainbow Lake you must portage.

Horsehoe Lake – Horseshoe Lake in Franklin County, is located about 15 miles south west of Tupper Lake. There are 6 campsites along the lake, plus 4 others on roads nearby. Near the Hitchens Pond put-in for Lows Lake, a popular spot for camping and paddling. Good to no cell service depending on location.

Mountain Pond – Old routing of NY 30 north of the Paul Smith VIC. Rough asphalt road. Near Barnum Pond which is very scenic for paddling, and rather rough Slush Pond Road which offers additonal campsites. No cell service.

Jones Pond – Three campsites located along a rough dirt road along with several tent sites along the north shore of this small lake about 10 miles from Saranac Lake.

Streeter Lake – Old railroad grade with 8 roadside campsites spread out along it’s way, along with a few campsites around the lake and an lean-to.

Union Falls Pond – One drive in site and a few tent sites along the reservoir just north of Franklin Falls Pond. Great views of Whiteface Mountain from this reservoir. No cell service.

Google fixes issue causing Android apps to crash with updates to Chrome and WebView – The Verge

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Google fixes issue causing Android apps to crash with updates to Chrome and WebView – The Verge

Some apps were crashing for Android users, but Google has fixed it. The issue was due to a system component called Android System WebView that lets Android apps display web content. Google now has a fix that requires users to update Android System WebView to version 89.0.4389.105 and Google Chrome to the latest version. Both are available on Google Play.

The issues began on Monday afternoon and lasted about seven hours, according to the Google Workspace dashboard for Gmail. The company recommended using the desktop interface until issues were resolved.

March 23, 2021 Morning

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Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Five weeks to Pink Moon 🌕 . Mostly sunny and 37 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 2 am. ☃️ Nice morning, but I’m not moving real fast today.

This morning, I ended up just having some toast and coffee ☕ and doing an abbreviated walk this morning, around the Swift Wetland Preserve just down the door from where I live. 🚶 I woke up in the middle of the night, and then I ended up listening to the radio for like an hour, then sleeping in for an additional hour. ⏰ I shouldn’t put on the news or open up my phone, but after peeing, 🚽 I was just so wide awake. It happens. I should get to bed earlier, but between sitting out back for a while under the starry skies 🌃 then playing with my phone, watching videos, I found it hard to get back to sleep.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 67 degrees at 4pm. 20 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 6th. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning, which became snow by afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 80 was set in 1938. 2.7 inches of snow fell back in 2005.❄

Mid-day today I am going downtown to get the big shot. 💉 I am sure it will be fine but I’m a bit nervous 😟 as I am not a big fan of needles. But the way I look at it, I will have my second shot in by April 15th and by May will be good. I want to be fully vaccinated before I’m taking the bus to work downtown regularly again, and also not have to worry so much, even if it seems like mask wearing days will be around for a while. 😷 I am also just a bit nervous – I am eligible to get the shot and I should do it – but I feel like there are sicker and more elderly people that should go first, but the experts say you should get it as soon as your eligable as it prevent you and your community from getting sick.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:03 pm with sun having an altitude of 48.6° from the due south horizon (-22.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:34 pm with the sun in the west (266°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (273°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:11 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:39 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the southeast (128°) at an altitude of 63° from the horizon, 241,281 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:13 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 60 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 40 degrees at 6am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 22nd. South wind 3 to 5 mph. In 2020, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 0 occurred back in 1875.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 52. Sunday, rain and snow likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 51. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Typical average high for the weekend is 49 degrees. I am continuing to watch the snow melt away up north, but I am thinking this won’t be the weekend with work and everything else. The following weekend is Easter and Good Friday, so I could easily make that into a three-day weekend. Trout season will be open then 🎣 so maybe do some fishing on Sacandaga River. Or maybe I’ll go out to Cazenovia/Stoney Pond for a few days. Who knows, it could rain in two weekends or we get a foot of snow.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Pink Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 7:51 pm with dusk at 8:21 pm. On that day in 2020, we had rain showers, cold, cloudy and temperatures between 46 and 37 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 63 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1962.