peak_bgr
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What a wet day. Full of plans the week before, rainy forcast coming into the picture, what to do now. I know, hike! It wasn't raining, yet. It wanted to, and I was pretty sure it was going to. But if it didn't and I sat at home at the computer looking at internet forums I would regret not putting on my boots and doing something. If it did, I would only be wet, and once you're wet-well you can only get so wet.
Starting off the day along the Lyon trail, rocky, slippery, muddy, all fun stuff-you know the what I mean. It was a quick hike of 1 hour 10 minutes to the summit tower. Only a half dozen slips, on the never ending rocks along an ever relentlessly steep trail. The views we little, under the clouds. The clouds were only a few hundred feet above the tower cab and ever so slowly dropping. We could see Chazy Lake below, but not much else. Averill was someplace over there, I would have to find this not by line of site but by GPS, so I thought.
We dropped off the tower, I turned on my GPS, nothing, no map. I didn't download the Nothern Adirondacks in my GPS, I had no features, not even a small dot saying Averill. Well, now spoiled by using a GPS for so long, my map and compass skills were rusty. Hell, pretty much non-existant at this point. Thankfully my partner had some knowledge of the M&C.
I had heard a rumer of a herd path from Lyon toward Averill, so I went looking for it. Sure enough, just over the summit rocks of Lyon is a wide open herd path. I guess I didn't need the GPS after all. No such luck. This nice path lead us to a road on this shoulder of Lyon, we followed the road left to its end where the herd path starts up again and leads to an amazing lookout toward Averill. Well, at least I think you could see Averill-all we could see was white. From here the ever apparent herd path turns into a lightly used, and littered (with deadfall) path. Marked with red blazes only ever so rarely, we managed to keep on it to the flats of the col with Averill.
The col is a very flat are, open with tiny soft evergreens. At the back of the flat is a wall of thick evergreens lined up like hedges in a straight line in both directions. We found our way around to the left in hopes of obtaining the ridge that leads to the summit of Averill. Done! The ridge is quite open for most of the distance. Only a short section before the initial bump along the ridge, was a challenge, worthy of a few scratches. In fact this section ate a Black Diamond trekking pole, so, if you see it, can you grab it for us?
As I said the ridge offered very little in the way of a challenge. There's even small sections of herd paths along here. Either human or not. There are some killer views points along the ridge, a couple even better than the top itself.
We returned the same route we came over. With the lack of a second car, and the fact that a cold beer was waiting, we opted to not try and hitchhike option along the road back to the car.
Starting off the day along the Lyon trail, rocky, slippery, muddy, all fun stuff-you know the what I mean. It was a quick hike of 1 hour 10 minutes to the summit tower. Only a half dozen slips, on the never ending rocks along an ever relentlessly steep trail. The views we little, under the clouds. The clouds were only a few hundred feet above the tower cab and ever so slowly dropping. We could see Chazy Lake below, but not much else. Averill was someplace over there, I would have to find this not by line of site but by GPS, so I thought.
We dropped off the tower, I turned on my GPS, nothing, no map. I didn't download the Nothern Adirondacks in my GPS, I had no features, not even a small dot saying Averill. Well, now spoiled by using a GPS for so long, my map and compass skills were rusty. Hell, pretty much non-existant at this point. Thankfully my partner had some knowledge of the M&C.
I had heard a rumer of a herd path from Lyon toward Averill, so I went looking for it. Sure enough, just over the summit rocks of Lyon is a wide open herd path. I guess I didn't need the GPS after all. No such luck. This nice path lead us to a road on this shoulder of Lyon, we followed the road left to its end where the herd path starts up again and leads to an amazing lookout toward Averill. Well, at least I think you could see Averill-all we could see was white. From here the ever apparent herd path turns into a lightly used, and littered (with deadfall) path. Marked with red blazes only ever so rarely, we managed to keep on it to the flats of the col with Averill.
The col is a very flat are, open with tiny soft evergreens. At the back of the flat is a wall of thick evergreens lined up like hedges in a straight line in both directions. We found our way around to the left in hopes of obtaining the ridge that leads to the summit of Averill. Done! The ridge is quite open for most of the distance. Only a short section before the initial bump along the ridge, was a challenge, worthy of a few scratches. In fact this section ate a Black Diamond trekking pole, so, if you see it, can you grab it for us?
As I said the ridge offered very little in the way of a challenge. There's even small sections of herd paths along here. Either human or not. There are some killer views points along the ridge, a couple even better than the top itself.
We returned the same route we came over. With the lack of a second car, and the fact that a cold beer was waiting, we opted to not try and hitchhike option along the road back to the car.
. You're right, I remembered later there are only four L & A peaks. 
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