Recent content by MarkL

hmmm.. now that you mention it, and reading the details in the post 2 below yours [400 x 20 seconds = over 2 hours ], jets make more sense than meteors.

I liked the meteors at 9 and 12 seconds.

Thursday (6/9) between Garfield and the Skoomkumchuk Tr. jct I met a young woman looking for her dog. It had wandered away the previous day. They're not sure in what direction it took off. Description: Zoe is a female Siberian Husky, 1 1/2 years old, one brown eye, one blue, wearing a...

Wed and Thurs, 6/8-9 Ditto what TDawg said. That same day when I first hit the ridge via Liberty Spring Tr. 3PM, they weren't bad. But heading north, they were swarming before I got onto bare ridge. Even on Lincoln and Lafayette summits, though facing into the breeze gave relief, they were...

Corrected correction I just rec'd the 46ers Spring Newsletter. I contacted a trailmaster about a discrepancy in the trail maintenance schedule. It pertains to the last day of trail work on the schedule. Here is the correct info: The trailwork will be on Saturday, the same day as the fall...

a correction and a suggestion Correction: The social "hour" will now run from 5:00PM to 6:30PM. Dinner will start at 6:30PM. Suggestion: If you have a name tag from a previous 46er meeting, bring it to help the acquaintance process. You can use your real name, forum name, or both, and...

BULLETIN: Whether or not Lindsay Lohan goes to jail will NOT affect the entertainment portion of the evening. No program is planned, so the entertainment will consist entirely of the stories and observations of REAL people: Your fellow hikers and you. If you haven't sent in your payment...

Saturday, March 26, 2011 ... It's at the Crowne Plaza in Lake Placid. There's a social hour from 5-6PM with a cash bar, followed by the excellent buffet from 6-9PM. The buffet offerings will be the same as last year: Beef, chicken, vegetarian pasta, fish, salad, rolls, vegetable, potatoes...

Very thin snow at bottom of Toll Road, but it was packed and skiable. Snow depth gradually increased on the way up. About an inch of powder at the bottom, increasing to 3", maybe more higher up. Very little bare pavement. On the inside of the Lake Placid Turn there was an inch or less of...

Thanks Yves. It made for a memorable hike and was good for a laugh, but it really didn't belong up there. I thought of taking it out on 12/22, but didn't have any spare room in my pack, and carrying it in my arms would have been too difficult to gut 'er out. And it would have made my hike too...

Excellent point! Snowmobile tracks don't always mean it's safe to snowshoe or ski across. How fast does a snowmobile have to be moving to cross open water? [fast-forward to 0:34 ] And what kind of skis/snowshoes (and energy drink!!!) would a person need to do the same?

These are good questions as we look ahead to next year. The participation this year was over 400, compared to 260 last year. But that's really not a group of 400, as they were distributed all over. And these students were only part of the large number of people out there that weekend. I...

Pete, after reading your post again, I suspect Neil commissioned this group to go out and be outrageous. He wanted to stir up people who have been members since 2004, yet have posted only 3 times. Good job Neil! Did you pay them in hot chocolate?

Pete, Thank you for bringing that up. It's an issue we're going to have to deal with for next year. The student participation was much greater than last year; greater than the Outing Club had members to lead, so many groups of teams and friends got together to do their own trips. This was...

If you're getting tired of seeing too many grunting middle aged climbers in the High Peaks, and wondering if any future generation will care to protect them, you might enjoy hiking on Saturday. The St. Lawrence University Outing Club is leading their annual Peak Weekend. They'll be trying to...