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  1. king tut

    DSLR Lenses?

    I bought a new Nikon Dslr camera and got a 18-55 mm lens and a 55-200 mm lens. Question is, what would you camera gurus suggest I get if I were to get one more lens? I would generally be taking pictures of people, landscapes, and maybe shots of small interesting things like flowers, drops of...
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    #'s 66 and 67- Whiteface and Passaconaway from the Kanc

    Many moons ago, I was a scrawny little blond haired kid rocking an Incredible Hulk tank top. The first “real” hike I can remember was when my parents took my brother and The Hulk up to Mt Katahdin to go backpacking. I was somewhere around 8 or 9 years old, and the first hiking memory that I...
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    Mt Marcy from South Meadows

    I would like to think that the mountain stood a chance of defeating us today, but clearly it was blindsided by the stealth Vermont contingent. We arrived at 9:30 AM, and snuck in the backdoor by trying out a semi super secret parking lot at the end of Meadows Road, just a mile prior to the...
  4. king tut

    The end is near

    No, this is not a biblical prophecy, just the end of my 67 journey coming up soon. Though, the rapture was scheduled on my birthday this year, and the other end of the world is scheduled for just after I get married this fall, but that's another story. With 4 peaks left on my list of 67, I...
  5. king tut

    A Few pics from Mansfield

    A few photos from yesterdays trek up Mansfield,
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    Cabot and some Carters

    I took a look at the calendar last week, and suddenly realized that it was mid September. Where did the time go? I realized that I had spent the last two months of my life travelling, going to weddings, and building a patio for my lovely girlfriend. Mostly building the patio, seen below just...
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    Vermont Waterfalls

    With temps soaring into the 90's this last week, I checked out some new waterfalls in the area. I have been in Vermont for quite a while, but somehow I had not made it to Moss Glen Falls in Stowe or Bolton Potholes in Bolton. So, I wont bore you with my words, just take a look at the pics, Moss...
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    Skylight, Gray, and Marcy

    I had spent a while looking at maps, trying to decide exactly how to tackle Skylight and Gray in the Adirondacks. Turns out that they are just in the middle of frickin nowhere. I originally planned to go in via Upper Works, until I realized while riding the ferry over to New York, that the trail...
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    A few pics from Phelps Mt

    One of my relatives was visiting from California and he wanted to hike his first ADK peak, so I decided to take him out to Phelps Mt. It was on my list of 46'ers left to hike, and seemed like a nice moderate hike for a non-hiker. I figured if I brought him up a herd trail in the middle of...
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    Mapsource-Vertical Profile?

    I was playing with some saved GPS tracks of some hikes, and I can view the Vertical Profile graphic which shows the elevation change over distance, but for the life of me, I can not save this image as a JPEG or any other file at all. Anybody know how to take the elevation charts off of Mapsource...
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    GPS test on Mansfield

    I recently received the Garmin 76 CSX as a birthday present on my 31st birthday, and I have been trying to figure the darn thing out for the last few weeks. It took many attempts, a few computer upgrades, and many hours before I could upload the Mapsource software on my computer. I downloaded...
  12. king tut

    Recommended GPS?

    I was thinking of getting a GPS device for hiking that would show trails, track distance hiked, elevation changes, altitude, etc... Something that could spit out cool stats and maps on my computer of the hike when i am done. Anybody have any recommendations on what they use and what is good? I...
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    A few pics from Camel's Hump

    I did a quick trip up Camel's Hump today, and man was it beautiful out. The snow was really deep, probably 6-7 feet of base on the upper 3rd of the mountain. Here are a few pics if anyone is interested in or is going up there soon. This was pretty common, little tunnels in between the snow...
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    Subaru Owners?

    Are there any of you out there that drive a Subaru Impreza or Legacy? I am looking for a good all wheel drive vehicle for hiking and skiing and was just wondering what people thought about these models. My poor Mazda 3 was totalled on Sunday when I got hit, so I need to get something soon before...
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    The Tripyramid slides

    The sun came blazing down, right into my eyes, making it’s first appearance of the day. I tried to look directly above me, up the slide, but I could see nothing but bright light. It was at this point that I realized that either the slide was going to injure me, or my girlfriend was going to kill...
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    Colvin and Blake- From Heaven to Hell

    My Aborted Deathmarch Krawl of a month ago which included Dial and Nippletop but aborted Colvin and Blake, made me go back to summit the mighty peaks of Colvin and Blake this fine day. I had this hike on my mind for a few weeks but I was unable to go out to New York as I was suffering from the...
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    ADK hike (Aborted Deathmarch Krawl)

    After doing a nice 18 mile hike for the HaBaSa peaks last weekend, and perhaps feeling a bit inspired by reading all the exploits about the people doing the long hikes at breakneck speeds, I decided that I wanted to do a nice challenging hike in the Daks. So I set my alarm for just prior to 5...
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    The Non Trap Dike hike up Colden

    After finishing up my hike of HaBaSa on friday night around 8'ish, I drove up to my friend's house out on the hillside of Keene Valley. Luckily for me there were cold beers waiting for me, with a shower, and a dinner to follow. I would have liked to meet some people friday night at the...
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    Cascade and Porter-the anti epic hike!

    I decided to head out the Dak's on saturday morning and hike a few new 46'ers. Being out of shape and sluggish from the last month of whatever plague I have been having, I decided to do one of the easier 46'er hikes. The hike lived up to it's billing of being an introductory hike to the 46'ers...
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    Giant Mt and Rocky Peak-ADK's

    I took a nice scenic drive through the Vermont countryside and into New York on Monday morning. One of the best things about working at a bank is at that you get all kinds of great holidays off! I sipped my Dunkin Donuts coffee while staring at the gorgeous foliage while driving down route 116...
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