{"id":2420,"date":"2020-06-08T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:29:44","slug":"porter-and-cascade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/porter-and-cascade\/","title":{"rendered":"Porter and Cascade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Almost every blog post about these two Adirondack summits – approached them as a single day hike. Same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both summits share the same trailhead and the same trail for the bulk of the hike. When taken together, the GPX looks like a “T”.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Not wanting to rediscover the tried-and-true, we opted for the same – parking at the trailhead on Rt 73 between the towns of Keene and Lake Placid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of the popularity of this hike and the limited number of spaces in the parking area, we planned to be up and out early. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were blessed with some amazing weather – high wispies, and good temperatures. Though maybe that didn’t help much for some of the trail conditions. MUD. The Adirondacks are notorious for it and we got our fair share.<\/p>\n\n\n

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typical mud in the Adirondacks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It wasn’t too bad, but definitely a thing in the Dacks…<\/p>\n\n\n

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View from Porter, with Whiteface in the far right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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view from Cascade, toward Lake Placid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Almost every blog post about these two Adirondack summits – approached them as a single day hike. Same. Both summits share the same trailhead and the same trail for the bulk of the hike. When taken together, the GPX looks like a “T”. Not wanting to rediscover the tried-and-true, we opted for the same – parking at the trailhead on Rt 73 between the towns of Keene and Lake Placid. Because of the popularity of this hike and the limitedRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-hiking.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-ne111"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4948,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/4948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}