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Big slide finished up the ADK46-R and New England 111 4000'-er lists for me. Culminating 5 lists in two consecutive weekends. Laurie, Mike, Nichole, and Tom accompanied me to the summit. We met up, a bit by chance at 7:00 am at the Noonmark diner and had some breakfast. Then we dropped off two...

Finally made it on the 4th attempt 3/8/2014. The first two attempts were made from the east and the Route 108 Long Trail trailhead. Both times we got into the col between the Chin and the Adams Apple and had to turn around. The third time we set out from the west and up the sunset Ridge Trail...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beautiful hike on a perfect day. Temp about -15 Fahrenheit in the parking lot when DobyBear and I started at 4:30 am. Daybreak by the time we got to "Flowed Lands". The trek across Flowed Lands is awesome during...

A Bluebird day for Barb, Ishmael and me. As we left the car about 6:50 am temp about 6 degrees we thought we would play it by ear asto whether we woult take the Santa Express or the Panther/Santanoni Brook herd path. We were passed on the road by a couple of gazelles who mentioned they were...

I have built 2 canoes and 2 kayaks by the stripper method over the past 2+ years. Speed measurements made with the GPS should be taken with a grain of salt and used for relative speeds only. The first was a Guillemot L kayak, dubbed "Yorktown". She is a Nick Shade design of Guillemot Kayaks...

We had wonderful weather for looking at some of the Lakes and ponds of the St. Regis Canoe Wilderness, and Upper Saranac Lake. We arrived about 10 am on Friday morning and set up camp at campsite #1 on the largest island on Follonsby Clear Pond. This campsite is on the St. Regis Canoe...

Nice article in the New York Times about navigation without instruments; it might be of interest here, as a cautionary tale if nothing else. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/losing-our-way-in-the-world.html?hp

I took my first lesson in Eskimo rolling my kayak today and failed miserably, in-spite of the best efforts of a competent and experienced instructor. My hip snap has lots of room for improvement. Does anyone have any dry land exercises (or references to same,) to improve strength and flexibility?

Ishmael, his son Kendrick, and I have just returned from a four day paddle in Saguenay Marine Park in Quebec. It was a wonderful experience and each day was different from the last. I had never heard of the place, and never considered that there might be fjords in places other than Norway, but...

I had a great time. Lots of folks with fiberglass and plastiyaks came by to see the strippers and paddle out around Pine Island. Perfect day for it. I very much enjoyed meeting Nick Schade and getting a chance to talk with him. Had nice paddle around Pine Island, my first experience paddling on...

Bluff Point State Park, Groton, Connecticut. This is a fun gathering which gives you a chance to meet kayak builders and paddlers. People generously let others try out their boats. I will be bringing two boats: a Guillemot L, and a Wee Lassie 2. A total of about 50 boats show each year. You...

What do people like about EveryTrail? EveryTrail does seem to be more popular as it has more GPS tracks posted to it, particularly in the Northeast USA. I find navagating around in EveryTrail very frustrating. I find the search function difficult to use in both Wikiloc and EveryTrail. This...

Spent much of yesterday paddling the Winooski River. Photos and description on Wikiloc: http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=4376081

I was listening to "RadioLab" on NHPR this afternoon and was directed to this self taken Youtube video of Antarctic adventurer Aleksander Gamme. He has just come across a food cashe that he had stashed almost three months previously, and had forgotten about. Youtube

Boy oh boy yesterday was the bluebird day to be out in the mountains. Certified by all of the facebook friends that have been posting great photos from yesterdays hikes. Henry and I got a few ourselves on our hike halfway up Sandwich Dome on the Algonquin Trail. The ledges at the junction of the...

http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2013/02/breaking-explorer-wins-paddlers-rights-case.html

Many of you know ColdRiverRun as Cory D. Right now he is in day 2 of his attempt to establish a record time to complete the ADK46 in winter. The most active thread is on ADKHP forums. Cory is wearing a beacon and can be followed on a Spot Page.

We met up with Gary and Karen at the snowplow turnaround and headed up to the summer lot. Coreys Road had been opened by snowplows all the way to the summer parking, recently. There was about 3 to 6" of snow here and there and snow tires were definately helpful, but not critical. Apparently the...

I headed North from the parking area at the corner of Sandwich Notch Road and Diamond Ledge Road at 7:22am. This was a little later than I had hoped as I had a long day planned out. I walked up the access road to the Mead Wilderness Base carrying my snowshoes and put them on once I reached...

Only about 6" of snow, in a uniform layer, the whole way. Pictures and GPS track on Wikiloc.