Helderberg Escarpment
Lake George
There are no views to the south of Black Mountain as the Firetower is currently closed with radio equipment on top of it. Yet, the views to the North are northing short of spectacular, looking all the way to Ticonderoga and Mount Defiance, with Lake Champlain just beyond it.
Sunday March 7, 2010 — Black Mountain — Black Mountain 🗺 — Black Mountain Loop 🗺— PDF with All Maps 📚
Power Line
Along the edge of the Pine Bush preserve.
Saturday March 19, 2011 — Albany Pine Bush
Land Use – Area Around Malone
While it's been a few years since I've been up around Malone, I was surprised to see how much of the land immediately around the village of Malone is good soils used for crop production, mostly silage and hay-ledge for dairy. Get north and west of Malone, you have more wetlands and forested areas whose shallow sandy soils have been depleted both due to historical agriculture practices and timber cutting for the iron-smelting industry at the turn of the history.
