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in 1994 when I was 39 and staying at Putnam Camp, I did Gothics, Saddleback, Basin, Haystack, Blake and Colvin as a 12 hour day hike. I started at 9:30 after breakfast and a bus ride halfway up the road from St Huberts to the lower Ausable Lake. The stupid part was turning right for Blake at...

In the late 1960s or early 1970s I was taught that it was correct to build up cairns that appeared to need it. I believe that was what the people in the Highlands of Scotland, which I believe is the source of the word cairn, did to maintain their walking pathways. With the number of people and...