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Love this! What a fantastic trip. Used to love reading about the early days of Gunther and Reinhold Messner’s exploits in the Dolomites. Must have been incredible to be there and experience these beautiful mountains!

Hahaha. :D:D

More on the Pennsylvania State Highpoint LIDAR data. https://www.14ers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=61570 The imagery from the northern cluster exactly agrees with what I observed/experienced on the ground on July 16th.

Grew up wanting to be a writer but somehow wound up where I am. I appreciate the compliment. :)

Interesting. I always forget the col OR distance thing in NY. And if I ever knew it was 250 feet in the Catskills, age and alcohol have erased that knowledge. Anyway, I like Lists of John. They don’t really care about the club-controlled list you’re working on. They considered it “ranked”...

LOL guys. Anyway, had a fun time on Saturday exploring north of Mount Davis where a new LIDAR point now challenges Mount Davis as the top of Pennsylvania. Didn’t have a GPS but am pretty confident I found it. My Suunto Vector altimeter watch jumped 10 feet at the top of a boulder field. Had...

He might be talking about Yard and that weirdo Middle Tabletop thing … all in the ‘Dacks. Catskill guy forgot about the Catskills. LOL. Anyway, it’s all BS at the end of the day. NY recognizes a 300 foot rule while NH (and New England) have a 200 foot rule, which was initially based on...

I am not a fan of either Lidar or the constant minor readjustments to peak-bagging lists. On many levels it takes some of the fun away from the game and forces all of us OCD types to go back and revisit mountains we’ve already summited because it turns out the tippy top is just over there and...

Wow. That’s both impressive and hardcore. Congrats!

Thanks Dave! Your comments are my favorite (no offense to anyone else). I read them aloud at dinner to my wife, who remembered you. :) Thanks so much for reading the report! And yeah, I get 100 percent of what you are saying. Was just one of those things that no one exactly expected to...

Mt. Cardigan selfies, you say. :) https://twitter.com/catamount05/status/1470142330258788362?s=21&t=n1R3dYf8B5ImsxJcdaEK-w

Once again, thanks for the incredible feedback, Jazzbo and Bombadil! Your words are very meaningful to me. I’ve been caught a bit off-guard by the interest that some have expressed in my report. So glad that it has offered a glimpse into what a guided expedition on Denali is really like...

Holy crap, Spencer! Glad you are OKish. The watching the dog for rabies thing is important on a certain level but CUJO needs to be put down one way or another. Reminds me of a doggy death penalty case I had many years ago back when I was a Trooper. Nasty, non-rabid dog tore a pre-teen girl...

Thank you so much, Peakbagr and iAmKrzys! It really means a lot to me to realize that folks I respect are reading every word of this TR and then taking the time to respond. It was certainly a tough one to write. I’m not sure it’s worthy of a “Minus 148 Degrees” comparison but to even be...

Appreciate the time you took to read and comment, TEO and Salty!

Thanks Rhody! There is certainly a lot to be said for our far more reasonable Northeastern mountain altitudes. Never really seriously thought something like that would have happened to me though. Ambition and overconfidence are definitely not a good combo.

Cool report and video! Enjoyed that. Congrats.

Appreciate that guys! When I was writing it, I wasn’t sure if I was going to post the link anywhere. But I ultimately decided I needed to just put it out there. Process has been kind of cathartic for me.

Thanks for checking it out.

Only took me seven years to write … Denali 2015: The Ecstasy and the Agony