A Little Information about The Adirondacks

The mountains are often included by geographers in the Appalachian Mountains, but they are geologically more similar to Canada's Laurentian Mountains. They are bordered on the east by Lake Champlain and Lake George, which separate them from the Green Mountains in Vermont.

The Adirondacks do not form a connected range, but is an eroded dome consisting of many summits, isolated or in groups, often with little apparent order.

The name "Adirondacks" is an Anglicized version of the Mohawk (an indigenous people of Canada and New York) ratirontaks, meaning "they eat trees," a derogatory name which the Mohawk historically applied to neighboring Algonquian-speaking tribes; when food was scarce, the Algonquians would eat the buds and bark of trees.