Lake Placid

We headed off from Vermont, crossing Lake Champlain by ferry into upstate New York. We stayed overnight in Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains. It was getting very cold here and overnight it snowed. We even woke the girls up to see it!

It's snowing!!!!

 Lake Placid has hosted the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympic Games, and is still the main training site for the US Olympic teams. There are large skating and ice hockey rinks, bobsled and luge courses and ski jumps that you can visit. The ski jump is 120m high and standing at the top you can certainly appreciate the skill and nerve of the athletes as they launch themselves down the ramp, hoping to fly through the air and land some 70m off the end of the ramp onto a very steep slope. Amazing!