Lake Tear of The Clouds
Lake Tear of the Clouds, at the col between Mount Marcy and Skylight, is the highest source of the Hudson River. Theodore Roosevelt was camped there on September 14, 1901 after summiting Marcy when he was informed that President William McKinley, who had been shot a week earlier, had taken a serious turn for the worse.
Roosevelt and his party hiked ten miles (16 km) down the southwest face of the mountain to Long Lake, New York where he hired a stage coach to take him to the closest train station at North Creek, New York. The route from Long Lake to North Creek has been designated as the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail.
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