  Outdoor quiz for an indoor day  June 15, 2013 By JOE HACKETT -
Outdoors Columnist ( , Adirondack Daily Enterprise   It isn't
the bluebird days that help to build character, it's the floods,
the thaws and the always persistent black flies.  Where else but
in the Adirondacks could you find a crew of Lycra clad woodland
gladiators ready and waiting to run off and tackle five
mountains in the pouring rain and spitting snow - just for the
fun of it. Fortunately, I was in the Berkeley Green park for the
launch of the Saranac 6ers event to watch the prospective
Saranac 6ers off, and to cheer them on the return.  Article
Photos  What famous artist, who painted this work, spent his
summers at the Moose Pond Club in Minerva? (Answer: Winslow
Homer)  They covered many miles, up and down, through snow, blow
and raging mountain streams simply for the honor of becoming the
first in a wave of potential Saranac 6ers. It was fitting that
the two out of the first three 6ers were sisters, and they wore
wide smiles as they ran