coldfeet
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Weird, gotta write the final chapter after 3 years....but with continued pressure from others to continue, another adventure will begin....Gas prices aren't going to kill me, it's the bagels!....they all come out for the bagels, even those Kanadians!
If you just want to see pics, here they are
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2857181610065582691fJQlbD
How to write this, think I'm just going to keep it as short as possible....shout outs are in order from the beginning of this adventure to yesterdays..
Thx to Mrs. Coldfeet "You can go anytime you want, just make sure you finished up things around the house and set up schedules for whose ever is taking care of the kids!"
Thx to the Backpacker web site for leading me into viewsfromthetop.....thx VFTT for leading me into the Catskill 3500 club, and the adkhighpeaks site....also thx to the Boy scouts for letting me go on an overnight hike, loved it...and I took the bait...
Driving from Long Island to the Catskills is usually 150-175 miles one way....I did a lot of 1 day hikes...like many of you the mileage really added on very fast....350 miles, 7-8 hours driving to hike 6-8 miles was crazy, but I seemed to ignore that stuff and looked at the pictures I took and wanted to go back...Do (or due) to my children's activities I was limited to hiking from November to April...so it was real tough to stay in hiking shape....seems like I'm a slow to moderate hiker, no matter how often I go out...oh yea, 2 knee operations during the last 3 years does have an effect on hiking...
Enough talk....followed my 2 week plan and knocked off the five final hikes to end on the day of the dinner....7 peaks and 2 very sore knees...
Thx to everyone who joined me yesterday, Nicole, Rocky Summit, Mudhook, Snickers, Laurie, Tom, Jay, Al, Harry K, Ralph, Doodles, and Ron...what an awesome group, my wife couldn't have asked for a greater group to help this "rookie"...Being a novice I was in awe just thinking about the hiking accomplishments that these people have...I want to also thank Matt C and Funky Freddy for helping me out on many hikes....Also a shout out to Jack Cannine who took me on my first Catskill peak up Slide mountain...there are nice people out there on the internet (my friends though I was nuts going with a stranger, and so did I)...but I had faith in our fellow outdoors people...
The hike was nice, steep and a little to fast, "Slow down!" was called out a lot!...No bagels for you! It stinks being the last in line because after 12 people hiked ahead of you the ice and snow is so crunched up it was tough getting a foothold in that stuff! But the sun came out as we hit the summit....big guy up there was watching out for me...we split up after bubbly and made it back down, it's official!...Went for a viewandbrew beer, went to the dinner, congrats to all of those finishers, got the #1702!....Started the 150 mile drive home app 10pm and got sleepy driving, pulled over in the rest area, called home and told them I was taking a nap for app 1 hour.....started the drive again, got sleepy but made it home at 1:30 this am....now it's storming out...hope all made it home safely....
Thx again to all of you out there, lending a hand to a stranger at times....Giving the knees a rest for a few months...would like to get into the canoe/kayak camping stuff this spring....keep me posted.....David
Catskill #1702
If you just want to see pics, here they are
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2857181610065582691fJQlbD
How to write this, think I'm just going to keep it as short as possible....shout outs are in order from the beginning of this adventure to yesterdays..
Thx to Mrs. Coldfeet "You can go anytime you want, just make sure you finished up things around the house and set up schedules for whose ever is taking care of the kids!"
Thx to the Backpacker web site for leading me into viewsfromthetop.....thx VFTT for leading me into the Catskill 3500 club, and the adkhighpeaks site....also thx to the Boy scouts for letting me go on an overnight hike, loved it...and I took the bait...
Driving from Long Island to the Catskills is usually 150-175 miles one way....I did a lot of 1 day hikes...like many of you the mileage really added on very fast....350 miles, 7-8 hours driving to hike 6-8 miles was crazy, but I seemed to ignore that stuff and looked at the pictures I took and wanted to go back...Do (or due) to my children's activities I was limited to hiking from November to April...so it was real tough to stay in hiking shape....seems like I'm a slow to moderate hiker, no matter how often I go out...oh yea, 2 knee operations during the last 3 years does have an effect on hiking...
Enough talk....followed my 2 week plan and knocked off the five final hikes to end on the day of the dinner....7 peaks and 2 very sore knees...
Thx to everyone who joined me yesterday, Nicole, Rocky Summit, Mudhook, Snickers, Laurie, Tom, Jay, Al, Harry K, Ralph, Doodles, and Ron...what an awesome group, my wife couldn't have asked for a greater group to help this "rookie"...Being a novice I was in awe just thinking about the hiking accomplishments that these people have...I want to also thank Matt C and Funky Freddy for helping me out on many hikes....Also a shout out to Jack Cannine who took me on my first Catskill peak up Slide mountain...there are nice people out there on the internet (my friends though I was nuts going with a stranger, and so did I)...but I had faith in our fellow outdoors people...
The hike was nice, steep and a little to fast, "Slow down!" was called out a lot!...No bagels for you! It stinks being the last in line because after 12 people hiked ahead of you the ice and snow is so crunched up it was tough getting a foothold in that stuff! But the sun came out as we hit the summit....big guy up there was watching out for me...we split up after bubbly and made it back down, it's official!...Went for a viewandbrew beer, went to the dinner, congrats to all of those finishers, got the #1702!....Started the 150 mile drive home app 10pm and got sleepy driving, pulled over in the rest area, called home and told them I was taking a nap for app 1 hour.....started the drive again, got sleepy but made it home at 1:30 this am....now it's storming out...hope all made it home safely....
Thx again to all of you out there, lending a hand to a stranger at times....Giving the knees a rest for a few months...would like to get into the canoe/kayak camping stuff this spring....keep me posted.....David
Catskill #1702
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