"Hello" from the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate, New York

[Grump]

Welcome from Mount Brydges Ontario Canada

[Saranac]

Welcome! I grew up in Montreal and I hiked your Adirondack Mountain Club trails extensively as a young man. Elizabethtown was only an hour's bus ride ± (a hassle-free border crossing at the time) and it was a short hike to the trail system. The Saranac Lake area is beautiful. That HAS to be done in a kilt! (You sort of get used to donating blood to black flies BUT NOT UP THERE!) Remember, our Scots cousins have to put up with their Midges ...

Elizabethtown is beautiful area. I live about 45 minutes from Saranac Lake in the town of Saranac, but I spend a lot of time in Saranac Lake. It's such a great little town. It's funny; when I first moved to the area for college (in 2000), I heard a radio commercial for a Highland festival on (I believe) Whiteface. I didn't make it as I was shy and didn't know anyone well enough to ask for a ride. Of course, I think that was the only time I heard about the festival, and there's no such thing anymore (just Oktoberfest). I still wish I had found a way to get there!

Welcome from the lower highlands of NY Broome County! Been through your "neck of the woods" on my way to Canada! Hope you enjoy your time here.

I've never been through Broome County, but I've been close. I grew up in the Finger Lakes (specifically, on Cayuga Lake), but I never made it quite your way.

Welcome from Texas!

Welcome from a Scotsman living in the English midlands.

Thank you! I'm enjoying spending time here. There's a lot of great information to peruse!

--Matthew

[grizzbass]

welcome and good luck on the kilt (and the flies)

[Saranac]

Welcome from Mount Brydges Ontario Canada

Thank you!

welcome and good luck on the kilt (and the flies)

I tend to over-think and over-obsess about new projects, so it'll be a bit before I start sewing on my first kilt; I've been doing a lot of reading but still have some uncertainties about specific aspects of construction. Besides, I'm part-way through a new bathrobe, so I need to finish that project before I buy yardage for a new one.

As for the black flies. . . . I've lived here (in the mountains, in the woods, near a small brook) for almost 12 years, and they haven't carried me away yet. My luck is holding!

-Matthew

[grizzbass]

Thank you!



I tend to over-think and over-obsess about new projects, so it'll be a bit before I start sewing on my first kilt; I've been doing a lot of reading but still have some uncertainties about specific aspects of construction. Besides, I'm part-way through a new bathrobe, so I need to finish that project before I buy yardage for a new one.

As for the black flies. . . . I've lived here (in the mountains, in the woods, near a small brook) for almost 12 years, and they haven't carried me away yet. My luck is holding!

-Matthew

I have made 15 sporrans. Granted 2 are based on clan badges and 3 are different styles but the rest are basically because while was happy with the result over time I decided it could be better.

[johnnyk]

Hello and welcome to you
from the mohawk valley of n.y.


the foothills and gateway to the great western adirondacks

[MurrayInGA]

Welcome from a fellow newbie down in Georgia. Good luck on the project!

[COScotsman]

from Northern Colorado!

[kiltedsawyer]

Welcome from a former Upstater. I grew up in the Catskills along the Hudson. Not as beautiful as the Adirondacks but a great place to grow up.
Again, welcome.

David

[Madadh]

Welcome from Texas, but I was born and raised in NY. Lived in Saranac Lake in the early 80s.