Hamilton County

Hamilton County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Its county seat is Lake Pleasant. It is one of only two counties that lie entirely within the Adirondack Park (Essex is the other). As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,836, making it the least populous county in New York. It is also the most sparsely populated county in the eastern half of the United States, with a population density of just over three people per square mile.

Hamilton County is in the north central part of the state, northwest of Albany. It lies entirely within Adirondack Park and consists mostly of publicly owned parkland. As the tourist folk will tell you, there is no permanent traffic light in the county.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_County,_New_York
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4 days in the wilderness

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Quite intentionally its been four days that I’ve spent in the wilderness, totally off the grid. Where I was camping at Moose River Plains was deep enough in a valley for no radio reception and I’ve been no where I’ve had cellphone reception. So I’ve been cut off from the world and what is happening beyond the dirt road I’ve been camping on. There could have nuclear war and I would have not even heard about it.

Thunderstorm Coming to the Plains

But I’m kind of glad of that – despite not having internet at home or a color television – I feel like with the smartphone and the occasional times I turn on my transistor radio I’m caught too much up in the 24 hour news cycle and analysis of Trump’s tweets when none of that really matters for my own life.