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That makes both of us. Sometimes these forum message boards are a bother. How about just sending a private email? Mine is [email protected].

This is a cautionary tale for anyone tempted to try a direct approach from the east. Having obtained permission, I left my car at the Clear Pond parking lot at 9 and headed down a private road to the river, which was high (there'd been an inch of rain the day before) but managable. Some maps...

And Hoffman whacks back. Codger still standing. Hoffman still standing. But at precisely 1:05 pm codger standing on top of Hoffman. NO REMATCH! A short report and long one. Short one first. Started from trail to Big Pond and followed the ridge north till I got to the top. Now the long report...

per ardua exelsior Your post shines a marvelous light on Inge and Spencer's achievements, which are admirable not just for their spirit of adventure, their physical strength, and mental tougness, but even more for their delight in our beloved Adirondacks which comes through so well in your...

(Filed under Trip Reports rather than Trail Conditions b/c it was all bushwhack; no trail involved except some overgrown logging roads at the start) There were three of us; Tony, the nominal hike leader; Christine, whose access to the Minerva Club saved us 2.4 mi. of walking; and one tag-along...

nundagao postscript After my last post I did some digging and found in Beauchamp (NYS Museum Bulletin 108; Archeology 12) that No-de-ne-o, meaning hill of the wind, was a name given to Hurricane Peak by Charles Fenno Hoffman, and Rogh-qua-non-da-go, child of the mountain, was a name he formed...

whence "nundagao" A disclaimer: this is dredged up from the memory of young child many decades hence, but here goes...in the late 40s/early 50s my dad, Walter Biesemeyer, proprietor of the Mountain House, together with Burns Weston, both charter members of the Hurricane Mountain chapter of the...

This brief report is, first, to thank the ATIS trail crew for their good work on the Ranney trail and, second, to put the occasional hiker who might be going that way on notice that the section between Hopkins and the Green-Giant col, described in the ADK High Peaks guide as entering "a swampy...

It was maybe the last sunny warm bug free day this spring. The trail was dry despite the recent wet weather, and in good shape except for some small trees and branches knocked down by the strong winds last week. Of all the high peaks, Cascade gives the hiker the biggest payoff in views and a big...

The plan was to meet Christine at HPIC at 8. I was early because it always takes exactly the distance from Dunkin's in SL to the Loj for my coffee to cool enough to enjoy. As I pulled up a young gal who looked seriously ready to hit the trail was heading toward the register. I just nodded "good...

It was minus 20 at 6am, but promises of sun and plus 20s later came true. From the Garden to the Slide jct was like strolling a sidewalk and the trail from there on up was almost equally well trodden. Our tentative plan was to do the loop clockwise, returning over the Brothers. When we reached...

Marshall is broken all the way. It's snowing today so by tomorrow our tracks will probaby covered, but the path should still be visible. Recent blowdown has been hacked through pretty well, and staying on route was not a problem. There are still lots of crawlers too high to step over and too low...

It took the five of us about 9 hours to do the loop, up Gill Brook and down over Dial. We signed in at 8:30 and out at 5:20. The Lake Road was nearly as icy as the trail, which is to say VERY, and we all wore traction aids right from the get-go; Christine on stabilicers and the rest of us on...

Dix was most enjoyable. It was a heck of a long walk in and out but SO much easier w/out snowshoes! The cold temps hardened the trail enough that it wasn’t muddy, though beyond the lean-to there was a lot of running water on the trail under the ice. The two of us put on our microspikes for the...

There were five of us and we wore snowshoes on the climb despite lots of barely-covered rocks and roots, expecting more snow higher up, but it was pretty thin all the way. Beyond the Algonquin trail junction, the summit rocks were coated with snow and ice. No need for microspikes; MSRs were...

how to walk, stand, and rest Good grief...this is a deep sea diving expedition in two inches of bathwater!

W46 You're not the only one looking forward to another winter climbing season. I had a great one last year, bagging almost all the so-called trailless ones. The two I still need are Marshall and Gray. (But I plan to climb Wright again, as an easy and fool proof warm-up hike, on Dec 21.) As soon...

On Saturday I joined Claire for her finish on Allen together with her friends Laurel, Rose, and Rebecca. According to Laurel, the Burnside book claims that so many people save Allen for last that it is known as the champagne trail. However that may be, it was certainly a day for celebrating a...

With my friends CV and LA we set out from Elk Lake at 7:45 for Hough which would be #45 for CV and #23 for LA. Setting a good pace, we passed the Slide Brook lean-to at 8:30. I estimated another half hour to the cairn for the Lillian Brook herdpath. Hah #1! In what seemed a very short time we...

Our route was ccw, up the old red trail past HSF to Flowed Lands and down the Calamity Brook trail. I've been whacking away at the lower 54 much of the summer so hiking on well-groomed trails with wonderful views was sheer delight. We left the Allen trailhead at 8:15 after spotting a vehicle at...