Lake Placid 9 Baxter Mtn

The Lake Placid 9'er, an Adirondack hiking challenge around Lake Placid, NY region, created in 2018. The mission is to attract hikers to explore some of the smaller peaks, which can be climbed in a morning or afternoon.
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A group of us planned this hike one year for a New Year's Eve hike. I don't think any of us made the true summit. I realized this when I hiked this as I went a lot further than we did that night.

It's a mostly moderate, 1.2-mile hike to the first summit. It begins at a moderate grade as it passes under a power line, then there's a continuous climb over switchbacks for 0.8 miles, where the Beede Farm Trail comes in on the left. Going straight and work your way up a few steep steps to the first open rock. This first lookout is not the summit — that's a bit farther along the ridge. Past the summit, a lesser-used trail descends to Beede Road in Keene Valley.

2.4 miles round trip

770 feet of elevation gain






 
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