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Winter Hike to Mount Jo and ADK Yurt Camping
Happy New Year! I can’t be the only one glad to leave 2020 behind. What a year. I surprised Jordan with a trip to the Adirondacks as a Christmas present. We rented out a yurt in the Adirondack Mountain Club’s Wilderness Campground. It was our first time winter “camping”, so we brought all of our warm winter gear! The yurt is heated with electricity inside but only gets up to about 50 degrees in the winter months. It was 9 degrees on the night we stayed, so my guess it was in the 40s inside. We had our warm, down sleeping bags and lots of layers to keep us warm.…
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Hiking Mt. Jo and ADK Things
This weekend was full of Adirondack goodness. I went camping near Lake Placid with my friends Meredith and John. We had grand plans of hiking some high peaks this past weekend, but weather diminished them. However, the weather was still great on Saturday after we set up camp, and decided that we better get a hike in now, just to say we saw some views. Enter Mt. Jo. The trail to Mt. Jo is at the Adirondack Loj parking lot. It was a short hike, so we didn’t mind starting the hike at about 4:30pm. First we stopped to see Heart Lake. Then we began the 1.1 mile climb on…