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The official W46r dinner will be held at the Crowne Plaza in Lake Placid on Sat, Mar 24 from 5-10-pm. Social hour with cash bar 5-6:30. The fabulous buffet with 4 entrees, salad, potatoes, green beans, dessert, rolls, etc costs the same as last year, $31/adult, $17 kids 4-12, kids under 4 eat...

Friday, I took a walk in the rain up the Hancocks. I started a bit early, and was alone. It is an area I am unfailiar with. As I reached the junction of the Hancock loop trail, I noticed a slide on North Hancock, and wondered if the trail took that route up. If it didn't, I was thinking that...

This past weekend was the 46ers Women's Only Weekend. This year, we had a small but hard working crew: Bonnie, Connie, Denise, Jane, Julie, Julie, Pat, and Wanda. Most of the crew arrived Friday evening to the setup at Sharp Bridge campground for a bit of chit-chat before turning in early...

Rik, Eric, Julie and I met in the Loj parking at around 7:30. We looked at the tools, trying to decide what to bring. Should we bring the 2 man saw? It's big, unwieldy and hard to carry, but it really makes things easy on those big things. Fortunately, Rik found a way to lash it to his pack...

Can anyone tell me what kind of conditions I can expect on that road around this time of year? I have an old Corolla with bad suspension if that makes a difference.

Each year, the 46er trailmasters run a "Women's only weekend". Under the guidance of the trailmasters a DEC worker, the women work together to perform some sort of trail maintenance. On Friday, Jul 28, the women...

On Thursday, July 13, the four 46er trailmasters met Darwin and Brett from the DEC, at the Loj parking area. We hauled our food, gear, and tools into Marcy dam, and set ourselves up in the Ranger cabin. We then headed to Avalanche Camp, to start building the new lean-to. Our multi-day project...

In theory, I'm working no getting my NH 48. In practice, I've been wasting time hiking for fun, so I've decided that it was time to put theory into practice. After a couple days of doing trailwork in the Adirondacks, I took a ride over to New Hampshire to bag a bunch of peaks. I think what...

Early saturday morning, about 17 people met at the old Frontier Town parking lot at around 7:15AM. We carpooled up to the Elk Lake trailhead, which would not have held our cars, otherwise. Up in the parking lot, we started splitting into teams. Kanji and Suzie have been doing this sweep with me...

Not all the way, but...... Friday morning, I headed up Street & Nye, my adopted peaks, to do a little blowdown clearing. It was an OK day for a rainy day; A lot warmer than I had expected, but still wet. Indian Pass Brook was kind of high, and rather than waste my time looking for a place to...

Early Saturday morning, a crew of 17 showed up for the 46ers first trailwork outing of the year. We split up into a number of smaller groups and set out on the Dix-Round Pond trail to clear drainage ditches, and to remove blowdown...

Finally getting around to writing this up. A summer trip. I had Friday off, so I decided to do something. It was a stressful week at work, so I had to burn off some energy. I felt like a human powered trip. It was to be one of those trips, where the decisions were left until necessary. All...

There may be some, not familiar with this. In order for the ice to support you, it must have water underneath, not be suspended over air. This kind of warm, followed by very cold tends to produce many sections of ice above the water. Durning the warmer period, the stream is higher, and as it...

There may be some, not familiar with this. In order for the ice to support you, it must have water underneath, not be suspended over air. This kind of warm, followed by very cold tends to produce many sections of ice above the water. Durning the warmer period, the stream is higher, and as it...

For those living in/around NYC. The winter festifal will give you a chance to ski, snowshoe, etc in Central Park. http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/events/output_pages/winter_festival.php?id=26282 If you are going there, could you PM me please? I want to get a message to a friend...

I see in theis morning's paper, that the U.S. is considering building a fence along the US-Canada border. There are a few hikes that would notice this change.

Although I'm sort of working on the NH48, I hadn't made it over to NH since last winter. Unfortunately, I've been wasting too much time climbing peaks for fun, so I finally decided to put aside the fun and get to work. Cantdog suggested an itinerary for me, and graciously offered to be my...

I'm not continuing on the other thread, because this one has a slightly different spin to it. While the high peaks wilderness area, has a daytime group size of 15, and that is the law, other areas do not. In particular, Giant and Dix wilderness areas, have in their UMP that the day group size...

Starting tomorow: http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/enb2005/20050817/not5.html Regulation is: http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/propregs/part190sect13text.html Pretty much everyone knew that this would happen.

Yesterday, I stopped by to visit my son, who is working on the Algonquin Trail, in the Adirondacks. I looked at the pile of 800-1500 pound rocks that the guys had mined, then my son told me where their camp was, and told me to go look at their setup. I took a picture of their bear canister...