a few weeks ago, i saw that an eighteen year-old girl had climbed mount everest. as everyone knows, it's a pretty big mountain. so when i came to lake george and asked at the chamber of commerce for a trail map of the area, i was happy to find that prospect mountain had a 1 5/8 mile trail to its peak. sweet, i thought. it's been a while since i've been hiking. time to get my backpack, a trail map, and maybe the copy of fleming's casino royale i bought the other day, and set out.
unfortunately, prospect mountain's smallish trail was quite a bit more...uh...rocky and steep than i thought. the lady at the chamber of commerce said it wasn't too bad. she was about 80 years old. so. i took off up the trail, and was out of wind in five minutes. i think, at one point, i was muttering something about stupid eighteen year-old girls hiking mountains to myself.at the halfway mark there's a highway that takes drivers from lake george up to the peak. i reached the highway, took a right, and managed to take a look out at lake george from a scenic parking stop and snap a picture or two. while up there i met a nice group of people in town for the americade. they asked me to take a picture of them and then one of them snapped a picture of me since we were having such a nice chat. there's a picture of me out there, somewhere, on a biker's web site. good times.
the trail on the way back down. next time, propect mountain, next time.