Jay H
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Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away....
Well, I'll stop there before Spielberg tries to sue me...
I guess one would say my ADK adventure was interrupted by a few other things... namely other peaks and some other silly mtns called the Catskills. Now all mountains to me are silly, some more silly than others and the silliest thing of all...... The silly hikers who think that he or she should hike them, to drive gazillion miles, to buy a twin size airmattress because it fits the back of one's Subaru to sleep in comfort in rest areas, to wake up at 1am in the middle of January to drive up to the Boquet river to snowshoe the 5 Dixes.... You get my point, you are all slaves to the mountains.
My first love after college was cross country MTB... then I would ride around the quarry behind Syracuse U, my alma mater and also ride to classes all through the summer. I remember my $400 Diamond Back Sorrento Sport, which when I graduated, I sold to a friend of mine there only to hear it was stolen 2 months later. I've since graduated a long time ago and graduated to bigger and better bikes. I guess it could of been said with the Adirondacks. I never once went there when in Syracuse... The lack of a car was one thing, but somehow I did a couple of the usual peaks back in the mid 90s.. namely Algonquin and Marcy. Not as a peakbagger, just as an adventurous poor college graduate. Spent much of the late 90s MTBing the woods of NJ and NY, bought a rigid Marin team for $1000 as my college gift to myself, eventually putting a suspension fork on it and riding it.... at least 25,000miles later, I still have it, it is now my commuter and touring bike. I rode the thing to New Brunswick, CA before, around Lake Champlain, up towards the Berkshires... It got me to and from work today...
Sometime around 2001, I think I hit the hiking bug, exploration in the woods near me hit a wall as my MTB couldn't go everywhere due to rules and regulations, so I started hiking. As the North Face says, "Never stop exploring". so I didn't, I bought some hiking shoes (some Vasque midlevel hikers) from Campmor, joined the NYNJTC and hit the trails... Somehow, I discovered Harriman, the Catskills, other silly peaks and other silly hikers. (is there a support group?
)
Well, between my first ADK peaks, I've managed to
1)start and finish my regular and winter CAT3500
2)start and finish the CAT100
3)climb bigger and sillier peaks out west
4)hike other places in VT, MA, CT, NH, and ME.
I guess it was just about time to finish the 46rs so sometime I think 2 years ago, I started to figure out how to best go about it, especially the winter ones. I remember my first winter ADK gathering at the Ark and getting to use my compass for Tabletop, never been there... I remember being on Nancy's winter46r finish on Marcy where Guinness and I huddled behind a rock for 30 minutes waiting for Nancy to arrive... The Dix range hike which I woke up at 1am, met the folks at 5:30 and did a 17 mile snowshoe over 12 hours.... A backpack over the great range (yes, my friend and I huffed big packs over the Wolfjaws to Saddleback....we stayed at Slant Rock and smartly slackpacked Marcy, Skylight, Haystack).
Well, I had 5 peaks left at Jan,2007.. With numerous plans to get Gray this winter or the Sewards.... Lets see..
Feb 14th weekend.... Valentines Day... snow storm, not driving through it...
Mar 17th St Patrick's Day weekend... another snow storm, not driving all the way to the ADKs on friday to do Allen with TFR... Instead I do Irish Mtn on the CAT100 with Mudhook on saturday for a fitting St Patrick's Day hike.
Another trip where AJTIV and I did Algonquin/Wright for winter (turned back on Iriquois) was when we were supposed to do Gray and Skylight but Guinness had snowshoe problems and Daxs and I ran into Guinness and Tmax coming out of Upper Works...
Anyway, after the winter was over, I made plans to start to try to finish this year, when Spencer announced plans for BBQ#5 so sounded fun... Lets see if it happens.
Well, Got the 3 sewards that I needed when my friend Jim at work got a weekend off from the slave driv.. I mean wife and we met Tmax, Guinness, her friend Janet a few weeks ago and we hiked Sewards/Donaldson/Emmons (I have done Seymour previously). Now that I was down to 2, gray and RPR. Figure, Spencer's BBQ is as best time as any to hit them...
To be continued..
Well, I'll stop there before Spielberg tries to sue me...
I guess one would say my ADK adventure was interrupted by a few other things... namely other peaks and some other silly mtns called the Catskills. Now all mountains to me are silly, some more silly than others and the silliest thing of all...... The silly hikers who think that he or she should hike them, to drive gazillion miles, to buy a twin size airmattress because it fits the back of one's Subaru to sleep in comfort in rest areas, to wake up at 1am in the middle of January to drive up to the Boquet river to snowshoe the 5 Dixes.... You get my point, you are all slaves to the mountains.
My first love after college was cross country MTB... then I would ride around the quarry behind Syracuse U, my alma mater and also ride to classes all through the summer. I remember my $400 Diamond Back Sorrento Sport, which when I graduated, I sold to a friend of mine there only to hear it was stolen 2 months later. I've since graduated a long time ago and graduated to bigger and better bikes. I guess it could of been said with the Adirondacks. I never once went there when in Syracuse... The lack of a car was one thing, but somehow I did a couple of the usual peaks back in the mid 90s.. namely Algonquin and Marcy. Not as a peakbagger, just as an adventurous poor college graduate. Spent much of the late 90s MTBing the woods of NJ and NY, bought a rigid Marin team for $1000 as my college gift to myself, eventually putting a suspension fork on it and riding it.... at least 25,000miles later, I still have it, it is now my commuter and touring bike. I rode the thing to New Brunswick, CA before, around Lake Champlain, up towards the Berkshires... It got me to and from work today...
Sometime around 2001, I think I hit the hiking bug, exploration in the woods near me hit a wall as my MTB couldn't go everywhere due to rules and regulations, so I started hiking. As the North Face says, "Never stop exploring". so I didn't, I bought some hiking shoes (some Vasque midlevel hikers) from Campmor, joined the NYNJTC and hit the trails... Somehow, I discovered Harriman, the Catskills, other silly peaks and other silly hikers. (is there a support group?
)Well, between my first ADK peaks, I've managed to
1)start and finish my regular and winter CAT3500
2)start and finish the CAT100
3)climb bigger and sillier peaks out west
4)hike other places in VT, MA, CT, NH, and ME.
I guess it was just about time to finish the 46rs so sometime I think 2 years ago, I started to figure out how to best go about it, especially the winter ones. I remember my first winter ADK gathering at the Ark and getting to use my compass for Tabletop, never been there... I remember being on Nancy's winter46r finish on Marcy where Guinness and I huddled behind a rock for 30 minutes waiting for Nancy to arrive... The Dix range hike which I woke up at 1am, met the folks at 5:30 and did a 17 mile snowshoe over 12 hours.... A backpack over the great range (yes, my friend and I huffed big packs over the Wolfjaws to Saddleback....we stayed at Slant Rock and smartly slackpacked Marcy, Skylight, Haystack).
Well, I had 5 peaks left at Jan,2007.. With numerous plans to get Gray this winter or the Sewards.... Lets see..
Feb 14th weekend.... Valentines Day... snow storm, not driving through it...
Mar 17th St Patrick's Day weekend... another snow storm, not driving all the way to the ADKs on friday to do Allen with TFR... Instead I do Irish Mtn on the CAT100 with Mudhook on saturday for a fitting St Patrick's Day hike.
Another trip where AJTIV and I did Algonquin/Wright for winter (turned back on Iriquois) was when we were supposed to do Gray and Skylight but Guinness had snowshoe problems and Daxs and I ran into Guinness and Tmax coming out of Upper Works...
Anyway, after the winter was over, I made plans to start to try to finish this year, when Spencer announced plans for BBQ#5 so sounded fun... Lets see if it happens.
Well, Got the 3 sewards that I needed when my friend Jim at work got a weekend off from the slave driv.. I mean wife and we met Tmax, Guinness, her friend Janet a few weeks ago and we hiked Sewards/Donaldson/Emmons (I have done Seymour previously). Now that I was down to 2, gray and RPR. Figure, Spencer's BBQ is as best time as any to hit them...
To be continued..
