Recent content by Hakuna Matata

I was once told by a very seasoned hiker that there are no bad days for hiking. If the weather is clear you focus on the distant views, and if the weather is bad you will focus on things closer such as rocks and small plants or a small spuce tree with snow on it. I love to hike in the rain, it...

Beck Weather's book is "Left for Dead". As I recall it was pretty good. There had to be 200 people on that mountain when that storm hit and they all wrote a book about it. I've read most of them. I read a good one about that same storm by a 17 year old that was at 4th camp waiting to summit when...

Let's see... Did Little Tupper Lake but no hiking Did Lake Lila and hiked Fredrieca Mt Did Bog River Flow/Low's Lake and hiked to Oswegatchie Did Raquette River but no hiking Climbed High Peak and then camped at Corey's Road and then kayaked to Raquette Falls Did Wanakena to Cranberry Lake and...

There are 8 floors where I work so on my break and lunch that's where you will find me. I've thought about painting mountain scenes on the walls. I stay busy doing other thinks, like hiking, X-C skiing, kayaking and walking every day. I hate gyms so I try to find the same things other places...

My avatar is of Saddleback. If an over-weight, middle aged, afraid of hieghts girl can do it you will have no problem. It was worse going down than up. Going up was no worse than a lot of other places in the ADKs. Just concentrate on the rocks (handholds and footholds) and ignore the air behind...

Terrific pictures!! You are one lucky guy!

We freeze a water bottle and slide it in next to our hydration bladder. It helps to keep your bladder cool and that half frozen bottle of water on the summit is great. I also put a washcloth in a zip-lock bag. When we pass a cool mountain stream we use it to cool down. It feels so good to just...

My Dr just diagnosed me with exercise enduced asthma about 1 1/2 months ago. The last 3 times I hiked mountains my lungs got real tight like I needed to take a deep breath and couldn't. It felt like a band tightening around my chest. I even unbuckled the chest strap on my pack thinking that...

It looks like she was keeping an eye on you. And don't worry about the Friday the 13th thing. I don't think she knew the date.

I was at Bog River Flow in the ADKs this past weekend and the blackflies were out on and off. Usually about the time we were trying to cook and eat dinner as that is the time it would warm up enough for them. Basically it was cool enough for long sleeves and long pants and with a head net you...

We were in on Bog River Flow and Lows Lake on Friday 5/13 and the flies were out and biting. We looked like a bunch of green-heads trying to fix dinner and eat with head nets on. Saturday it was cooler and misty rain on and off and there weren't any blackflies until supper time when the sun came...

Pete, That must explain the avitar. BUG CONTROL

I personally don't like seeing the planes in the High Peaks. It intrudes on my "wilderness" experience. We once camped on an island on Little Tupper Lake right after it was bought by the state and opened to the public. I had thought this would really be a "wilderness experience". It must lie in...

Thanks for bringing up hiking memories. Our grandson lived with us for his first year and we were the built in babysitters while his mother worked. Not willing to give up hiking we put him in a carrier and went hiking. He loved it. He sang most of the time and I don't know why. He didn't sing...

I don't believe it is ever closed. There are X-C ski trails at the bottom and a few years ago we hiked around it about this time of year. Going up one side (with the southern exposure) there was little to no snow but after we crossed over at the top and started down the other side there was...