Recent content by adksteve

Great to meet your crew! Andrew: It was great to meet your crew. We had a great day - probably one of the best of this winter season. The boys certainly did enjoy the butt slides and the ski out. We had to finish it off with a trip to the Noonmark Dinner. Hope to see you again on the trail. :)

Ski the Ausable Road? Has anyone tried to ski the Ausable Club Road lately? Looking for current conditions. We are planning on a ski in Sunday 3/5 for a hike of Colvin and Blake or Nippletop and Dial. Any current info would be appreciated. Tom we may see you there - We should be at the...

Has anyone tried to ski the Ausable Club Road lately? Looking for current conditions. We are planning on a ski in Sunday 3/5 for a hike of Colvin and Blake or Nippletop and Dial. Any current info would be appreciated. Thanks - Steve :)

Thanks Tom We had planned this trip and counted on joining a large group for safety reasons. We stayed at the lean-too overnight for an early start and found the trail in good shape to Time Square. We were aware that there were some hikers in front of us but we were all following a good trail...

Channel Number We will use channel 5 with no Privacy Code (small number). The small number blocks out other users on the same channel.

Camping for Santa Trip We have 3 going in Friday during the day to camp overnight either at the Lean-Too or around the otherside of Bradley Pond before you start up Panther Brook. We plan on going for all three if the weather holds and we don't take to many unintended side trips. We will have...

Trail conditions excellent for this time of year. Gate is open and road very passable. Trail was easy to follow to the col then drifts made it a little tougher but could follow the tracks of previous hikers. The path to Seward is questionable - another group tried but failed to make it to the...

I'll Answer my Post We hiked Donalson and Emmons vis Caulkins Brook on 2/11. Found snow conditions excellent for this time of year. Trail has been rebroke to Emmons but Seward is questionable. Another group tried and could not locate the herd path from this side. If you need these for your...

Looking for info on this weeks snowfall around Saranac Lake area this week. Looking to hike the Sewards due to favorable conditions the last couple of weeks and looking for an update. Thanks Adksteve

Big Slide 02/05/2006 We hiked Big Slide via The Brothers on Sunday. The first part of the trail you could bareboot for about a mile then you would run into sections of ice (we used crampons). On the exposed rock ledges you could bareboot again until after the Second Brother at that point we...

Big Slide - Feb. 5th We will be taking a shot at Big Slide via the Brothers on Feb. 5th. Check for our post after the hike for a report on conditions. We are taking all gear - both snowshoes and crampons just in case. We plan on traveling both directions over the Brothers - thinking that...

Room for Two More Hikers? Just checking to see if you have room for 2 more in the group and still keep the group size to 15. We would meet at the trail head and do not need overnight quarters. We have been to the Santanonis about 1 1/2 years ago in summer. We are working on our Winter 46 and...

Does anyone know of a Ski Binding that can be used with Koflachs? I presently use these boots for Snowshoe and Crampons and it would be nice to use them with my Backcountry Skis.

Snow Shoes I've used my Koflachs with both the Denali and the Evo MSR Shoes and have had real good luck. For climbing I always use the lifter otherwise the stress on my ankle gets to be a bit much. I would like to know if anyone has found a ski binding that can be used with Koflachs. That...

I'm taking a group of Scouts for a day hike on 11/20/05. Most are fairly experienced. We had planned on Porter from the Garden (was wondering about hunters in that area). Another option was Noonmark but I read a recent posting and it looks to be a tough one due to ice and mud? Looking at the...