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DescriptionSuper Secret Location unveiled!!!! For Freeze-yer-arse-off VII, we will re-visit the lovely and snow-laden Siamese Ponds Wilderness. We will trapse into Puffer Pond, where beautiful, newly-rebuilt leanto awaits. The brand-new privy is sure to handle all the $hit this group can dish out (substantial!)  New leanto From basecamp at the pond, there are numerous options for exploration. Twin Ponds is a short dayhike option for those who are More info can be found in the ADK guidebook for the Central Region. Misc info, cut and pasted from other sources: Trailhead Info: The trailhead for Puffer Pond is located beside Kings Flow. From NY Route 30 at the south end of Indian Lake village, turn onto Big Brook Road and follow it all the way to its end. There is a public parking area here, amidst a collection of private camps in a large clearing. There is a modest parking fee of $1 per car, per day. The trailhead register is located at the east end of the clearing. Trail description: The trail to Chimney Mountain continues east, while the red-marked trail to Puffer Pond bears right. In less than twenty-five minutes from the intersection, after descending nearly 200 feet from the height-of-land, you reach the first lean-to above the shore of Puffer Pond, 2 miles from the trailhead. A bank drops steeply down to where there is a small beach in warmer seasons. The marked trail bears left and continues for another 0.5 mile to the second lean-to, which is located at the eastern end of Puffer Pond. – this leanto has a better view of Puffer Mtn but is more exposed to wind. One of the best side trips in the area is the walk to Twin Ponds. To get there, head east from the second lean-to along the marked trail, as though you were going to the Old Farm trailhead. The trail remains fairly level for the first ten minutes or so, before it crosses a small stream and rises beside some large erratics. At the top of this first rise, look for a series of old hatchet blazes on the trees. These mark the start of the traditional path to Twin Ponds, which turns right and downhill from the main trail. However, the precise location of the path is moot in the dead of winter, for there is very little of it to find then. Summer hikers follow a string of small blazes, and some of these may still be visible; but in winter, visitors should get out a map and compass and prepare to bushwhack. The route of the path drops to cross an intermittent stream, and then heads just south of east through a cut in the long northeast arm of Puffer Mountain. You then descend to a designated campsite beside the western pond, about an hour’s walk from Puffer Pond. However, the path has not been cleared of deadfalls in years, and often your only clues to go by are the small blazes. At the moment, this trip can be recommended for skilled woods travelers only, but the destination is well worth the effort. The frosty ridge of Puffer Mountain, which rises like a guardian to the southwest, dominates the view of the ponds. At the time of the “great rape of the Adirondacks,” the cutting of the magnificent old pines in the nineteenth century, the lowlands south of the Twin Ponds offered a truly remarkable stand. As in a few other areas, some of the pines were so large that the traditional thirteen-foot long butt, or first cut, was too heavy for man and horse. Charges of black powder were often used to split the logs in half. On the south side of the western pond lie the rotten remains of one of the huge butts—a lonesome testament to the forests that were. Between the ponds and Buck Meadow Flow, the truly adventurous may want to seek out the waterfalls on the outlet. There is an impressive 15-foot cascade at about 600 meters (1,968 feet) in elevation, sheltered by a hemlock grove. There, how's that? 
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