Recent content by Charlie

Hello all, just a quick note to say thanks for sharing all of this personal (and invaluable) information. I too am starting this journey. Last summer started feeling pain on the inside of my right knee doing any significant walking. Waited until recently to see anyone about it. At 62, thought...

For our second trip of this fall season, we decided on the Santanoni Range. The weather was great and the trail conditions were as expected, muddy. However I am sure they were improved since earlier in the season. There were only a few sections that really required careful navigation, the col...

Had a great time hiking Donaldson, Emmons, Seward, and Seymour this weekend. I went with my son who is my primary hiking partner and is committed to helping me complete the 46ers quest. I've detailed our entire adventure with photos on my hiking journal website here -...

Keep in mind that Cascade and Porter are VERY busy, especially on weekends and nice weather days. Just in case your pup gets overwhelmed and distracted by crowds.

Trail Boss, I obviously didn't dig into OSM enough, I new it had the collaborative aspect, which I like ... thanks for the insight. We can never have enough tools, as long as we don't have to carry them in our pack. :)

Yeah, pretty basic, it's a collaborative site though so it's kinda cool. I also like to use CalTopo, much more powerful. https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=44.17779,-74.17993&z=15&b=mbt

Thanks for the additional info, especially on the alternate lean-to's, I like a little solitude as well. It would be great if a lean-to was open as I would like to stay in one, but of course I'll be carrying my tent regardless. The more I look at it, I might make this only a 3 day trip doing...

So this is what I got from trail Boss on the ADK High Peaks forum, in case anyone else is looking for similar advice on this mountain range. "Map: https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#...4.1764!-74.216 ​Practically speaking, there's only one "approach" and that's from the Seward Parking Area at...

Hello all, so I am finally back to pursuing my remaining peaks to complete the 46er's, and I am already looking at the calendar for a couple of challenging adventures I have ahead of me, namely all four of the Seward range and the 3 peaks in the Santanoni range. I'm looking at labor day weekend...

Agreed the Great Range is a must and also a worthy yearly "fitness test" for sure as TCD mentioned. There are so many options to break it up into parts and so many directions to come from. A personal favorite of mine is from the Ausable Club Road to Gothics first because you just can't beat the...

Well, we had a successful trip last Thursday, the weather was awesome. It was great to get out again. Thanks again for the advice to ascend rather than descend the Macomb slide. Now that I have been there, I can certainly appreciate it. Check out my trip report here -...

Well, we had a successful trip last Thursday, the weather was awesome. It was great to get out again, I have the hiking fever back for sure. thanks again for the advice to ascend rather than descend the Macomb slide. Now that I have been there, I can certainly appreciate it. Check out my trip...

Thanks Daniel, I think that's what we'll do. Any rough idea of the round trip in miles if we descend Hough to the maintained trail and then back out to Elk Lake?

Hello all, it's been way too long since I have hiked in earnest, but now that my son and former hiking partner has completed his education, he's agreed to go with me again. Man that was a long 7 years! I'm looking forward to doing some peak-bagging this fall and I've got the 4 lesser Dix peaks...

Initially supposed to be an overnight, but that 4 letter word "work" caused me to decide on a day trip or not go at all. I couldn't have hand picked a better day weather wise, if you were in the 'dacks on Monday, you know what I mean. I went with my shadow, he never complains about the pace. I...