Made it back from a 10 day trip camping in the Adirondacks. Similar to last years trip we traveled about 1000 miles and camped in 3 different locations. This year we stayed in a driveway in Tully NY, at Rollin's Pond near the town of Tupper Lake, and at Eighth Lake between the towns of Old Forge and Blue Mountain Lake. It was a pretty wet week as most of the summer has been for all of New York state. Downpours just about every night and at least some rain on most days. Despite the rain we managed to paddle at some of our favorite spots and new to us in the Saint Regis River and a portion of Lower Saint Regis Lake. At the top of the lake is Paul Smiths, now a college but in the late 1800's it was one of the Adirondacks great paddling destinations. You could really feel the history as we paddled up to a dock at Paul Smiths. We saw three other vintage trailers on the trip, a Shasta similar ours that was coming the other way just east of Watertown, and we saw two silverside Scotty's near Eighth Lake. Our Shasta has been working really well, we had one issue with a turn signal and brake light not working but it turned out to be in the wiring of the car not the camper. We found that the icebox needed a new block or two of ice every 2 to 3 days. There's no room for more insulation, so sometime I'm going to see if I can add a layer of insulation to the inside of the door and look into a tighter door gasket.
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