"Autumn Brings Beauty and Fine Sports Conditions"

1932--Frosty nights in Placid valley wring the air so clear in Autumn that any day one's vision extends for miles. The encircling mountains seem to have come close, and their woods and rocks, and contours are defined as tho by a stereoscope. The crispiness of the air makes you lengthen your stride, and fill your lungs to their utmost.

At dark come northern lights. Over lake and above pines, in the great unobstructed dome of sky, pure white beams shift, and change to yellow and pale green, to orange and red, at times to a prodigal display more brilliant than any rainbow. Now and then the lights become a glowing curtain of mingled hues, fluttering as in a breeze or as tho animated by an unseen hand directing the whole pageant. Lucky the person who views this scene in all its splendor and stores in memory a picture he may summon at will thru the years.

These cool days are for golf that doesn't tire you. Courses are at their best after constant care all summer. Nowhere in all the Adirondacks is there a lovelier mountain view than from the north golfhouse. This is the season for swift canters over leaf-strewn trails, so secluded that partridge and rabbit may be startled by your horse's hoof-beats, and deer may go bounding into cover "flags up". Every year new mileage is added to the bridle trails that interlace Placid valley and that afford long or short rides, varied according to taste or time.

Tramping and climbing are best in autumn. Then the mists of summer disappear. Montreal is visible from Whiteface summit and the Green mountains of Vermont can be seen from Marcy.  Breathing is less labored in cool, clear air, as one toils over a rocky hedge to gain a far-flung view. Just being in the woods at this season brings benediction. Hikes or climbs or steak suppers cookt in the open are part of the Club's daily outing- program and leadership is provided. This is the season when camp fires glow and hearths blaze bright. Near the glaciers the warmth of fellowship is found amid leisurely hours in which to talk of mice and men while leafy glow-worms flicker skyward from the fire.

Motor routes to Placid from East, South or West lead thru regions which during the Month of Flaming Leaves unfold an increasingly beautiful panorama before the incoming motorist. Every route traverses miles and miles of woodland where the scarlet of maples and gold of beech and birch stand out in bold relief against the green of pine and spruce and balsam, and white birches are threaded thru the pattern the colors present.

Lake Placid Club News

*Lake Placid Club used "simpler spelling" in their publications.  The article is as it was originally written.

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Aurora Ramsay works in the Brewster Research Library at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown.

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