Congrats! To Ken on a Camel's Hump Calendar Completion!

[Becca M]

Yesterday, Tuesday, December 27, 2011, Ken Austin completed his mission
of hiking an "official" 4000 footer of the Northeast ( ME, NH, VT, NY ), "ON
EVERY CALENDAR DAY" ( 366 DAYS ). He is the third known person, overall, to do it.

Congratulations to Ken! I was fortunate to be invited on this adventure up the awesome Camel’s Hump! We had a VERY fun day!!! Participants included Hiker Ed, Lisa, and Matt.

Getting ready for the jaunt – the preparation picture:

Going uphill – the silly-pose shot!!!

The summit was rather windy (gusts of 45+mph) so we decided to huddle just below the summit for this picture:

Patch presentation ceremony:

The White Mountains from the summit outlook (80+ mile visibility in all directions):

Close-up of the official patch (on left) and the not-so-official patch (on right) made my Matt – nice job!!!

Lisa pouring the champagne and preparing the chocolates – what is better than that combination??????

Cheers!!!

NOTE: Ken is well-known by many in the hiking community. He has hiked/climbed the "Northeast 115", plus McNaughton, plus the "New England 100" ( Total 149 ) in all "four seasons" ( Winter, Spring, Summer, & Fall ).

 

[woodstrider]

Congrats!

Wait...what?

so- even on leap year's Feb 29th? How long did that take? AND.. I'm startin on that

Seriously- a special life achievement- and congratulations.

 

[una_dogger]

Congrats, Ken!

 

[Jay H]

hmm, we missed ya! A friend and I did Camel's Hump yesterday from the Burroughs trail, but left the trail at 6am and was back by like 8:50ish.. We saw 2 different groups signed in on 12/26 but saw nobody on our way up or down. Sure was windy up there for sure yesterday!

Congrats Ken!

Jay

 

[Becca M]

hmm, we missed ya! A friend and I did Camel's Hump yesterday from the Burroughs trail, but left the trail at 6am and was back by like 8:50ish.. We saw 2 different groups signed in on 12/26 but saw nobody on our way up or down. Sure was windy up there for sure yesterday!

Congrats Ken!

Jay

Hi!!! - Yeah, we did Burrows, too, but, we started at 10:30am!!!! We didn't sign in. QUITE windy!!!! We saw many, many people, but, a lot didn't want to go up to the tippy-top due to wind. There were also a lot of sledders - they were semi-bruised by the time they got back to the parking lot - the trail *had* just the right amount of packed snow to fill in the cracks but not really enough for good sledding.

 

[Becca M]

Wait...what?

so- even on leap year's Feb 29th? How long did that take? AND.. I'm startin on that

Seriously- a special life achievement- and congratulations.

I'm not sure how long it took him - he's been at it *many* years!!!! Yup, Feb 29th too! (I'm sure the peaks will be busy this feb 29th too!!!)

 

[Pete Hogan]

Congratulations Ken!

Congratulations Ken Austin!

I hiked with you many, many moons ago when we were both breaking in our first pair of hiking boots. It is great to see you are still enjoying the summits and forests.

Pete