As some four million people made their way to offices in Manhattan on a recent Monday morning, the four of us awoke to a stunning sunrise on a much smaller island a few hours north of New York City. Set in the heart of the Adirondack mountains, Saranac Lake is home to a dozen or so islands of varying sizes, each more wooded, remote, and beautiful than the next.
For three days a perfect pine needle padded, waterfront campsite on one such island was our humble home—a pleasant change of pace from our hectic, cramped lives in Brooklyn.
Many months in the making, the trip was an opportunity to spend time in a handful of imaginative footwear styles from Oregon’s own KEEN—and to prove once again that adventure is never far from reach, even for those in America’s most populous city.