![My friends and I atop Pharaoh Mountain.](https://i0.wp.com/www.campingjay.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/part1photo1.jpg?resize=400%2C209&ssl=1)
This May, my friends and I embarked on the eighth installment of our annual retreat to upstate New York. This is the fifth year at our favorite campground: Putnam Pond in the Pharaoh Lakes Wilderness Area of New York’s Adirondack Park.
Continue reading Adirondack Adventure 2014, Part 1: Escape to Pharaoh Lake