Roadside Adventures; 207; Adirondack Autumnal Suite

It is one of the most awesome sights in North America. Autumn in the Adirondacks. When a curtain of blazing colors is drawn across the landscape come with us as we journey down the soft roads and through this Technicolor splendor. It's an Adirondack a sweet next on roadside adventure. Production of roadside adventures is made possible in part by the New York independence trail.

The excitement danger and the glory of the struggle for independence in an unforgettable self-guided tour of over 40 historical sites and waterways from Montreal to Manhattan by New York Natural Wonders featuring four of eastern New York state's unique environmental wonders natural stone bridge and caves in Pottersville Howe Caverns and housed High Falls Gorge in Wilmington and a sable chasm in Teesdale by the Canadian province of New Brunswick with natural wonders all along the Bay of Fundy and the Acadian Coast New Brunswick where there's something for everyone. And by Northern car crushers a division of George Moore truck and a quick operation he's in New York. Here's

is this. Hello and welcome to another edition of Road side adventures. You know there's an old saying goes around these mountains up here that there are really only two seasons in the Adirondacks. Those two seasons being winter and the Fourth of July. Well if you spend any time up here at all you know that every season has something very special of its very own to offer the curious traveler. But my

favorite season. Well it has to be fall. It just has to be fall when you get those cool crisp nights the aroma of wood smoke in the air and as if on cue every single leaf of every single tree bursts into a panorama of eye popping colors. Come with us then as we journey through six million acres of wilderness in an episode of roadside adventures we're calling an Adirondack humble sweet. Yes. Oh

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Miles. Yet another summer is coming to an end in the Adirondacks. Yeah yeah yeah. In the garden the pumpkins are beginning to show there. Oh yeah. The female garden spider feeds on a well-contained grasshopper. Soon she will produce egg sacks which will fall to the ground until spring when her progeny will emerge. Yeah yeah yeah. Hey. The monarch butterfly has already laid her eggs on the underside of the leaves of the milk

and now sipped at a NASTY. The milk we cast the seeds far and wide for lack of sun. Autumn is coming to the Adirondacks and that which lives here year

round. Hunker down. Even as the first colors appear in the leafy tree now author is in the world. OK

but it's beautiful. But why all the colors. I mean why do we have fall In fact why do we even have seasons in the first place. That's a really good question. Let me see if I can answer it. Let's say this little pumpkin has the earth the big pumpkin is the sun. Billions and billions of years ago. Well the Earth was still forming before there were people living on it. You know before there were even continents it was orbiting with its axis straight up and down. But then something happened something really cataclysmic. Some scientists say it might have been a comet. Others say it could have even been our own moon. But something came out from outer space and smashed into the earth so hard that it tilted twenty two

point three degrees. The good news is it kept orbiting but narrow we have the seasons because if you're on the earth over here and you're tilted like it is now and you live in the southern hemisphere you get the direct rays from the sun. And you're in summer longer up here and less sun rays. You're in winter for us in the northern hemisphere over here closer direct rays summer down here. Takes a little bit longer you're a little further away because it's tilted winter and that's how it goes folks. Here it is winter up here then spring. Then we have summer. Then we have fall and so on and it's been like that ever since. And a good thing too because we didn't have the seasons. We may not have any pumpkin pie. Wait

a minute no seasons. Why it's the very seasons which make life ebb and flow on earth. The coming and going of the seasons is how we count the years and how we know when it's time to take our vacations or have a picnic or go skiing and those of us living in the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere count on spring for bringing new life and new light to the fields and the forests and thereby new hope to the human spirit. In summer we plant and grow and splash and play and hike and camp and marvel at the magnificent diversity of nature in winter. We stay close to Kiffin in and celebrate the community of family put in the home. Well we celebrate the harvest the harvest of all good things to eat. The harvest of the good

friends and we give thanks for a good and gracious life. And in the fall we celebrate our diverse cultures honed by endless centuries of this season. In September historic Fort Ticonderoga celebrates the harvest with the Native American Harvest Moon Festival. People of the First Nations come from around the region to practice and share their traditions with each other and the curious visitor on Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington not far from Lake Placid is the annual October fest here. The harvest is celebrated with music and dance and food and lots and lots of food

and a great gondola ride up the very face of the mountain. The Adirondacks in the railroad has its flaming fall foliage right through the high peaks of the Adirondacks between Union Station in Saranac Lake and the Lake Placid station. This is a great way to take in the fall colors while enjoying a ride on historic railroad cars. And everywhere throughout the Adirondack there are apple orchards with wagon rides to the pumpkin patch at orchards in the harvest is celebrated six ways from Sunday. But perhaps the best of all is a bag of nuts and a ride through the

back roads of the Adirondack Mountains here. Autumn is at its best. OK I understand the part about where the earth got catty Wampus a few billion years ago and that gives us the seasons. But what it doesn't explain is why a perfectly green leaf like this goes to looking like this. In the matter of just a few days what's up with that shit. Ok here goes. The Leaves of Summer are green because their veins are

flooded with a chemical called chlorophyll chlorophyll is green in color during the summer the chlorophyll has been busy interacting with sunlight and making more chlorophyll and glucose which the tree uses as food. In the fall the lessening amounts of sunlight and the cool nights signal to the tree that it's time to close up shop. So the chlorophyll begins breaking down revealing the yellow and orange colors in the leaves. These colors have been in the leaves all summer but have been masked by the green chlorophyll. So thanks to the earth getting knocked catty Wampus and chlorophyll are the lack of it. We are assured of a spectacular Adirondack audits. But you know season lasts forever around these parts and soon autumn leaves start to fall. Abide by

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production of roadside adventures is made possible in part by the New York independence trail. The excitement danger and glory of the struggle for independence in an unforgettable self-guided tour of over 40 historical sites and waterways from Montreal to Manhattan by New York Natural Wonders while enjoying a nature walk under the natural stone bridge. Joining one hundred fifty six feet below the earth's surface. Ancient granite cliffs walk floating down the legendary water of the Sable River you'll see why. New York rocks by the Canadian province of New Brunswick with natural wonders all along the Bay of Fundy and the Acadian Coast New Brunswick where there's something for everyone. And buy a northern car question there's a

division of George Moore trucking and Equipment Corporation is failing you. Yes but it's just like crunching Leeza your fear. Boy here's a pretty one. Look at that. Well that's it. That's all the time we have for this edition of roadside adventures. Our Adirondack a tumble. Sweet. You might be asking yourself when's the best time to come up and catch all of this. Well I had a friend of mine that spent his entire life in these mountains and he always said without hesitation. Second week in October second week in October. And as we filmed this it is October 13th and we are at the peak of the season.

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Adirondacks. When a curtain of blazing colors is drawn across the landscape. Come with us as we journey down the back roads and through this Technicolor splendor it's an Adirondack that some will sweet next time on a roadside adventure.