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DEC ranger recovering from injuries KIM SMITH DEDAM Press-Republican Plattsburgh Press Republican Fri Nov 04, 2011, 03:28 AM EDT LAKE GEORGE — Department of Environmental Conservation officials said a forest ranger is on leave after injuring himself at a practice firing range. According to...

"However, a bushwhacker's eye follows the terrain and notes the difficult thickness between." Too bad you weren't there with him!:D

Two stories showing the in-between season is the most challenging! Mind and body do not want or cannot let go of summer conditions instantly but "weather" sure can.

Michael St. Laurent speaks with rescuers after being airlifted from the Grouse Mountain wilderness Sunday (British Columbia-CAN). He had been lost in the forest for nine days: http://www.montrealgazette.com/travel/Lost+hiker+scrawled+name+hope+faltered/5612032/story.html

Every spring I make the trip towards Marcy from Four Corners for the sole purpose (as requested by DEC) of removing cairns leading to the beginning of the herdpath from every direction. I have been told this summer that said herpath is becoming more and more difficult to follow and quite...

Not really!

We did a loop two springs ago (May 17, 2010); left the Oluska Lean-to, visited Noah's Pond 20 minutes later, from there reached the slide in kind of a bee line to bottom of slide (went left of the 784 bump), that route was relatively easy, bottom of slide is circled by old blowdown with young...

And all the while in Vermont: http://www.addisonindependent.com/201110feds-investigate-middlebury-river & http://www.addisonindependent.com/201110lincoln-digs-river-road-repair-stone

Peakbagr, you are very kind, but a number of climbers are constantly helping Gary Koch and me on “our” trails. Notably our friend Ed Bunk, who parted for higher mountains February 2009, was with us working very hard, most of the initial seven days it took to re-open Lillian Brook historical routes.

We can thank the 46-Rs trail crews as they are the ones who did a lot of the clearing on that trail, just as they did in the Dixes from the Elk Lake and from the Round Pond trailheads!

More details about the rescue in the following Press Republican article: http://pressrepublican.com/new_today/x858693/Hiker-killed-in-fall-worked-at-Paul-Smiths-College-over-the-summer

All articles have basically the same information as the New York Post and in this case was completely respectful of the family tragedy. Tim, All of the last six months regarding a wellknown case the NYP to my surprise was regularly quoted in Le Monde, Liberation and Le Figaro! Cable news...

When several of the wilderness areas were closed no one was supposed to be anywhere on the mountains including the Trap Dike of course. This past month I am sure Tom that as I did, you did not fail to notice some sort of peer pressure to be the first to climb the new slides and name them...

Yes, it's an unacceptable tragedy for the parents. The what ifs will be with them forever and no explanation will or can ease the unbearable pain.

Just hope the individual (S) is not being helpful somewhere else right now!

:mad: Two of my friends climbed Cliff and Redfield a couple of days ago and found spray paint on trees and rocks continuously from the Redfield/Cliff intersection to summit of Cliff. Thankfully none was visible along the Redfield path. First were Cliff and Redfield names on large logs (sitting...

According to DEC website it's not closed yet but I am not sure since usually when Lodge closes so does the trail till December. Furthermore I did not specifically say we walked that trail all the way from Elk Lake, Panther Gorge is a great get away!:)

One thing you can expect all day is plenty of mud and of ups and downs! Nevertheless if you wait for a week or two you will be rewarded with magnificent fall scenery from every ridge lookouts and along the trails and various herdpaths. All the while probably thankful the paths have been cleared...

Sleep, only at work! We met climbers, at Four-Corners, who had gone the day before from the Loj by Lake Arnold to reach the Feldspar Lean-to and reported very tough going through and down that pass because of considerable destruction. Both looped over Marcy and Haystack the day we met them and...

Trail to Marcy from Elk Lake via Panther Gorge has significant blowdown here and there, with very few the last 3 miles into Panther Gorge and hardly any the last mile up to Four Corners but one third of the plank section through Marcy Swamp will give backpackers a good workout (see pictures...