![]() Day 1 – 35 miles including four carries totaling 3.5 miles – starts in Old Forge and ends in Blue Mountain Lake.It offers a mix of lake and river flatwater paddling with several carries (aka portages) totaling 5.25 miles. The course traverses some of the most scenically stunning paddling country on the planet as it follows the original highways of the Adirondacks. The three-day stage event for competitive and touring canoers, kayakers and SUPs is open to solo paddlers, tandem boats and four-person canoes, and voyager canoe paddlers. Not exploding lungs kind of hurt more of a persistent tooth-ache, full-body-cramp kind of hurt. I’ve also been snowed on, poured on, baked in 90-degree temperatures, blown sideways down Long Lake, and had to bash into unrelenting headwinds and huge waves on Upper Saranac Lake. In the 10 years that I’ve participated in the race, I’ve seen many picture perfect days. NY Routes 28, 30 and 3 more or less follow the course from Old Forge to Saranac Lake the task of figuring times and distance made only slightly more difficult by the fact that I’m traveling in reverse direction of the race. Driving to Old Forge along the highways that roughly parallel the course of the annual Adirondack Canoe Classic – aka “The 90-Miler” – I can’t help looking at the GPS and odometer and mentally clicking off intermediate time goals.
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