627. Not Gilligan's Island!
Nice 2-mile round trip climb, listed in an Adirondack Sampler as a "3-hour tour", but took us less than half that long

Well, we haven't been having much luck getting letterboxers to try out any of our other letterbox climbs in the "Dacks (even though some of them are even shorter than this one), but we thought we'd make one more attempt to try to show some folks why we feel that one good little climb is worth at least 100 stamps (or, in the case of something like Algonquin, which we climbed the following day, about 1000!) Anyway, to find this easily accessible trailhead from the Northway, just take exit 30, go 2.4 miles on 9N, and stay right with 9N for another 3.6 miles to a large dirt parking lot on the right off Shriver Rd.

Walk across the bridge and continue right around the bend in the road to just before a brown house on the left, where the trail dips into the woods, skirts the hill briefly, then heads up for nearly a mile, with a couple of fairly steep pitches. Just before the second and best rocky viewpoint opens up from your "sky island" (about 60 steps back from the "End of Marked Trail" sign , although you can continue as we did another .1mile to the actual viewless summit if you wish), there is a birch cluster on the left and a pointy rock right with a 5" black rock embedded under the jagged part ("tooth") of its overlap. Just to the right of the black rock with the green lichen spot is a 1-2" diamond-shaped stone with a little memento of your climb on the back!

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