On my second weekend in New York I traveled a great bit to see some sites and do a little fishing. I headed out east on about a 4 hour drive to Fort Ticonderoga. I have always been fascinated in history, especially military history and the battles that forged our country. Fort Ticonderoga was key real estate during the French and Indian wars as well as the American Revolution located on a peninsula of Lake Champlain on the Vermont and New York border. From there I headed about half way up the Lake Champlain's 125 miles of shoreline then turned west through the Adirondack Mountains to Lake Placid. Lake Placid is a really nice little town where the 1932 and 1980 winter Olympic games took place. Most interesting to me was seeing the place where the highly unfavored and unknown players of the US hockey team beat the heavily favored 4 gold in a row Russian team. Beating Russia in the midst of our Cold War tensions. I went on that evening and the next day to fish the west branch of the Ausable river. I ended the weekend by stopping in Lake Saranac at a deli for an absolutely awesome roast beef sandwich.
Looking out over the lower end of Lake Champlain where to the right the waters flow from Lake George and atop the hill across the water stands Mt. Defiance. A higher elevation than that of Fort Ticonderoga where the British once place cannons which forced the French to surrender the fort during the Seven Years War, also known as the French and Indian Wars and later after Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured the fort from the British, the British once again occupied the hill yet again forcing the withdraw of the forts occupants.
The Ausable River between Lake Placid and Wilmington NY.
Not sure what kind of duck this is but he looks tasty none the less.
One of the few Brown Trout I landed.
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