Recent content by mike46r

I saw this on Newsday today. Does anyone know anything about this? RAY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) _ A hiker missing for nearly three weeks in the Adirondacks has been found. State Police said the hiker, who was not identified, was found in a ditch near a golf course outside Ray Brook and was taken to...

Timothy Treadwell would be mortified! :)

I have been alone on many of the summits several times, not necessarily on week days in February, but then, too. I remember being all alone on Marcy in June, Haystack several times alone. Alone on Whiteface in February. Esther, too, on that trip, but who would expect people there? Although I...

I would have to get out the various editions of the High Peaks Guide to get an exact count, but No. 1 would be Giant. I lost track in the mid twenties, from the slides and all the trails. It is a great hike to introduce people to the High Peaks. Algonquin 14 times, give or take. Same thing...

Adirondack Mt. Club Appalachian Mt. Club Green Mt. Club Berkshire Knapsackers, a western Mass hiking group I have been an Adirondack 46er since the early '90s, but haven't paid my dues for several years

I went backpacking on the Long Trail this weekend. I have been to the Whites three of the last four weekends. If I am confident I can get gas I will keep going. I am a bit concerned about shortages, not cost. Plus I make a point to avoid the Whites and Adirondacks on holiday weekends.

I've used trail running shoes for two seasons of light hiking. I also have heavier leather hiking boots and for me it does not seem to make any difference - I roll an ankle on the descent on just about every hike, no matter what pack I have. Most hikers, it seems, me included, tend to favor...

sounds just like a copy editor!

5 hours for the Presidentials. I just came back from the Presis. Left home at 4:30 am and got on the trail at 10 am. i would have made it in 5 hours, but realized I had nothing smaller than a twenty and had to stop and make change for the parking fee. 3.5 hours for the Adirondacks 10 minutes...

I loved trail running. I used to run in the Plotterkill Preserve in Schenectady County and two years ago was running three to five days in the Pine Bush in Albany. It was kinda cool in this one stretch it seemed like I always flushed out a big deer on those runs. It didn't seem so cool when I...

Someone mentioned the Joe Tasker, Peter Boardman books. If you can find it, there is a single volume, called, I think, the Boardman-Tasker Omnibus published by the Mountaineers. Their writing is powerful and inspiring about a time when climbers were climbing into the unknown. I could not...

This has been an interesting thread. I have lived in southern Vermont 2 years now after 30 years living in New York and hiking mostly the High Peaks. It has taken me awhile to make the adjustment, but I have been appreciating the differences. The hiking is more trail hiking and lends itself to...

I hiked with a guy who runs marathons and hold some sort of age group standard in the mile. Running is his life. When we hiked Haystack and were deciding whether to hike out or spend the night in a leanto, he confessed it was much harder than running and he wanted the rest. I think that pretty...

I voted for the Adirondacks (Haystack is awesome, especially in winter) but lately have been hiking the Greens and the AT by section since I am now five minutes from the AT trailhead. I want to see a moose!

If you are new to hiking I would suggest the Five Ponds Wilderness http://www.backpacker.com/article/0,2646,1040_P,00.html Again, it is not in the southwest Adirondacks, but it is great, pretty gentle terrain so you can get a lot of mileage in, plenty of river-side campsites and you can get way...