Day: March 31, 2026💾

The remote Sly Pond is one of the highest bodies of water in Adirondack Park at an elevation of 2,872 feet. It was once infamous for being a marker of how acidic Adirondack lakes had become by the eighties, with the DEC recording in 1980 the pond having an acidity of 3.54 which is about as "acidic as a dill pickle".

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