Snowshoeing up Gray Peak

3-day, 2-night snowshoeing trip with Ludwik & Ryan at Adirondacks State Park- aimed to summit Mt.Marcy.


Ryan picked me up at 4am and we got to Tupper Lake, NY by 10:30am. Approaching the park from the west side, started off from the Upper Works parking lot.




We were lucky that 2 snowstorms had hit the region that covered everything with 1-foot of fresh powder.




Covered 6 miles in 3.5hrs and got to site Nos 1 before it got dark.


Setting up the camp and cooking a hot meal.




The next morning, we had to carry our packs to Uphill lean-to, then take a day pack to attempt the summit.


It was a continual uphill battle, it was early afternoon when we got to a fork in the trail and instead attempted Gray Peak instead of Marcy for time consideration.




At the Gray Peak summit!




Back at camp, we didn’t find a stream that night so we had to melt snow to boil water, used up a lot of fuel.




Waking up in our cocoons, the weather has been fair but temperature has been dropping slightly.


Cross-country skier on Lake Colden


Due to possible fuel shortage, we decided to exit the park 1 day early, so we pack our bags and hiked 8 miles back to the parking lot.


Stopped for dinner at Big Tupper Brewing, great food (esp the burgers) before we parted ways. Until next year!