Hello Toronto: Summer 2012: Lake Placid

In Canada almost every month has a long weekend. In August we have Civic Holiday and we'd decided to make a trip during that weekend. On Friday night we rented a car, which was exactly the same car we owned in Finland, a Saab. We had decided to drive to Lake Placid in NY state. It is a 6 hours drive, but because we left so late on Friday we stayed the night in a B&B in Kingston. On Saturday morning we took the country road along the shore, which went through cute little towns and showed us the beautiful lake. At Ogdensburg we crossed the border over yet another international bridge.
The road to Lake Placid was very nice, showing us little Amish villages, where you would still see the horses and carriages and the closer we got to Lake Placid, huge mountains.
Lake Placid hosted the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics and you can still visit the different sites.
We found a nice little cottage where we stayed for 2 nights.
On Saturday afternoon, after we arrived, we went immediately to the nearest golf course which was situated between the mountains. We had beautiful views, unfortunately my phone was dead and I wasn't able to make any pictures.
On Sunday it rained a bit in the morning, so we went to see the old hockey stadium. Later the sky cleared up and we drove to the nearby Whiteface Mountain (1483 m). We took the gondola up and thought about hiking down. We didn't have proper hiking shoes and the mountain was too steep to walk down. After trying to hike down for 1,5 hour we gave up and walked back up to take the gondola down again.
On Monday we played another round of golf in Tupper Lake.
Again beautiful scenes and definitely a place worth visiting.

We liked Lake Placid and its surrounding very much and might come back some day in the winter to see how the winter-sports over there is.