Sitting on Mountain
Just sitting back and looking south from the open rock face a top Owls Head.
Taken on Thursday August 12, 2010 at Owls Head Mountain Firetower (Long Lake).
Sargent Ponds Wild Forest
Buttermilk
Fire Tower
The fire tower is a 30 foot LS 45 Aermotor tower, pretty typical for NY State. It's one of the short little towers, like also seen on Rondaxe Mountain in Eagle Bay.
Taken on Thursday August 12, 2010 at Owls Head Mountain Firetower (Long Lake).Forked Lake
This is looking south from the summit towards Forked Lake Campground and possibly Racquette Lake. The mountain in the distance is Wakely Mountain, one of the other fire towers originally used to pin-point fires in the Adirondacks (it takes two towers to locate a fire through triangulation).
Taken on Thursday August 12, 2010 at Owls Head Mountain Firetower (Long Lake).Saranac Lake
North
In the distance is Saranac Lake and Lake Placid, with Whiteface just beyond it. Not the clearest or nicest of days, but still visable. In the foreground is the col/shoulder of Owls Head.
Taken on Thursday August 12, 2010 at Owls Head Mountain Firetower (Long Lake).Forked Lake
Forked Lake is home to both a developed reservation and fee campground (green and white) and a handful of primative free campsites (yellow and black) along the lake. There also is a couple of lean tos along the lake.