Adirondack LettersNo.3: A Bear Story. Hints of Balsam and Pine: Nature Reflections in a minor key from our quiet corner of the Adirondacks. For Fourpeaks Guests and anyone who ever dreamed about a wilderness getaway. CLICK & GO! (On this page.) Adirondack Letter No.3: "A Bear Story." More stuff in An Adirondack Miscellany. (On the next page.) The bear cub sightings. More about Anita and Andrew at Ridge Camp. List and Links to all the Adirondack Letters in this series. 
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Subject: "A Bear Story" Adirondack Letter No.3Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 21:43:25 From: < YourAdirondackGuide@4peaks.com > To: < youremailname@youremail.address > To: Fourpeaks Visitors At: < youremailname@youremail.address > Dear Fourpeaks Visitor, When that nice couple from Massachusetts told us about it I wasn't surprised. Every Springtime second-year cubs get turned out of home. Momma Bear is looking for a mate to start a new family and just doesn't want the youngster around. It's the beginning of a young bear's life on its own. And they're awkward adolescents. We followed the story of that bear all year. From her early morning splashbaths in the cow pond by Ridge Camp. To the occasional sightings along the jeep trail at Great Rock. Mid-Summer she clawed up the screening on the Ridge Camp porch. (Some first-time guests left food out overnight.) Come Fall we're finishing up building the Cedar House at Gypsy Camp. The cub scares Wally one day who's all alone picking up brush. Our carpenter Ed tells me the cub messed up his deer feeding station, eating the carrots and dropping her scat all over the place. He swore he'd get her in time. But he never did. I was relieved when that bear cub made it through her first hunting season. I like knowing bears are out there roaming Fourpeaks, making a living on the land in their ancient ways. They're solitary and territorial and they need a lot of empty land--one square mile for each breeding sow. More than that for a mature male. The bear defines my wilderness for me. I'm planning on doing a page on this. Look for it next month at http://4peaks.com/fbear.htm Winter weather held off long into December. We're bush-hogging and mowing more than 30 acres of backcountry, mostly old homesites--Hurley, Boughton, High Meadow, Back Lot, Farmhouse, Hamilton, Oak, Sugar, Lookout and Second Drive. Revised map coming soon to show locations. These little openings are important windows into our accessible wilderness. Pruned the apples. Hope to get a good crop next year. Cleaned up every trail on the place and cut a few new ones. My favorite is Brook Trail from Hamilton to the Picnic Hill at Gypsy Camp. Only a 1/4-mile long, the brook reminds me of those I've seen in the Southern Piedmont. Picturesque rock falls and lots of evidence of pioneer development--grade changes at the cultivation lines and many stone piles and walls. That's enough for now. This is our second Letter this year. In the last one I said we're shy about advertising our place which can appeal to so few. A lady wrote back and said she liked the letter and hearing about our Adirondack hideout even though she never was here (and probably never will be). This letter is for her. Thanks for reading this. If you've ever been a guest with us, go look in your mailbox and pick up your $100 Gift Certificate and come see us again. If you've never been--give us a call and we'll chat about it. Or use the easy reply form at http://4peaks.com/finquiry.htm There's a lovely quiet season coming up soon. And please visit us On-Line: http://4peaks.com/ "A 700-acre private rest and play-ground." http://4peaks.com/fcamp.htm Pretty Camps in a Hidden Valley. http://4peaks.com/foguest.htm Things to do here--activities. http://4peaks.com/fotrails.htm Family Hiking, Mountain Views. Your Adirondack Host, Martin Schwalbaum P.S. News!! We've been awarded Dog-friendly U.S. Hotel of the Month for December 1999 http://dogfriendly.com/hotelpick.html P.P.S. If you liked this Letter, tell a friend. CLICK to Recommend-It! http://www.recommend-it.com/l.z.e?s=174630 If you didn't like it please reply to this with "REMOVE" in the subject heading. Thanks. Member Lake Placid/Essex County Visitors Bureau Area information: www.lakeplacid.com 800/2PLACID ************************************************************* This is No.3 of a really occasional Letter, "Hints of Balsam and Pine from our Corner of the Adirondacks," for Fourpeaks guests or anyone who ever inquired about a Fourpeaks Vacation/Getaway. To get off this list reply with "REMOVE" in the subject heading. *************************************************************
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