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Hello everyone! I am currently working on editing the 5th edition of the Adirondack Paddler's Map. If you know of any errors or omissions in the 4th edition, or changes since then, please shoot me an email or private message as soon as possible. I would prefer only things which you are sure...

Stokel and I climbed this slide last Thursday, and had a blast. It's pretty interesting because there are no known TRs of this newer slide, and we may have logged a first ascent. Still waiting to hear back from Jim Lawyer on that one. Here is Stokel's excellent report: "This trip really...

Well, after months of the idea, weeks of not planning or scouting, and days of ignoring friend’s advice, I decided to give it a go. My goal was to hike all 5 of the peaks in the Sawtooth Range that qualified as hundred highest peaks. I used Spencer’s book to find the true summits on the map, and...

Santanoni Trail into Bradly Pond Lean-to, and Flowed Lands Trail into Calamity Pond Lean-to. I'm not going to use the template because all you really need to know is that there is lots and lots of mud. You may have been able to guess that, but with a few days of some intense storms, both...

Sentinel: Middle French "sentinelle," from Old Italian "sentinella" I figured this one was interesting enough for a trip report. I climbed Slide a few months ago, and thus needed to finish up the Sentinel Range. My plan was to do the last three in one day, beginning with Kilburn from the...

The_Swede came up with the idea at some point last year to run the Devil’s Path in the Catskills as quickly as possible. It sounded like a great proposal, and an added bonus would be beating the unofficial fastest known time (8hr 12min by Artex, in 2007). After months of planning, and things not...

There is also too much information to write down and have anybody be even remotely interested in reading. So I’ll just highlight some of the more interesting events. Arrived at the McKenzie trailhead on Friday at 10:30am. Had a late start of 11:00am, but the weather was warm (68+) and the sun...

Yesterday five of us hiked all five peaks in the Dix Range in the Adirondacks. Among the hiking party was Adam (1ADAM12), Dean (Dean G.), Ryan, Kit, and myself. What a great and hilarious group of guys! Jokes flew back and forth as we began our hike along that road of all roads into the summer...

Trail Conditions: Hiked in via Elk Lake. The road is completely bare, but has some soft spots and sink holes. There is snow on the trail as soon as you leave the summer trailhead, and the depth increases as to hike further. A few small patches of ice were encountered later on, and there are a...

The original plan was to meet up with Pinpin and Oncoman to hike Stewart in the Sentinel Range last Friday. This is relatively early into my winter 100 highest hiking, so I was hoping to learn as much as possible from these hugely experienced hikers. With 3 ½ months of training, I was pretty...

First, the details: -12 of us, at camp Peggy O’Brian, for 3 days. -Some of us came in via the regular route, others on skis and with a sled via the South Side Trail. -Plan was some of us would hike Gothics, Armstrong, Upper Wolfjaw loop, my dad and I would do Basin Book Slide (Basin from the...

I’m quite hesitant to write this report, because every time a hike of ours doesn’t go as planned, I feel like we loose quite a bit of credibility and respect. I’m not sure if that is pride talking, or just the fact that I cringe when I think about the situations in which we end up, and the...

Longest title ever, I know. Hmmmm, how shall I begin? Well...my original plan was to hike a few peaks with my dad over the weekend, but he went up and got sick on me; hence, I was left with no plan and no hiking partners. I made a few phone calls and shot off a few messages, but apparently...

Trail Conditions: The trail has barely any snow at the beginning, and gradually increases to 3 feet or more at higher elevations. It's a variable highway to Bald Peak, and very well packed down. I broke trail from Bald to RPR, so there is a freshly broken trail but it's not too well packed down...

Trail Conditions: Went up via Mossy Cascade. Trail is completely broken and packed down, a variable highway. There is about 1-2 inches of snow towards the beginning of the trail, and the depth increases to about a foot or more near the summit. I drove around Keene Valley, and the other...

Trail Conditions: The trail is broken into the lean-to by at least three people. Two gentleman after me were planning on hiking Santa, Couch, and Panther, so they might be broken as well. There's about 2-3 feet of snow on the trail, and 3-4 feet at higher elevations (3,000+). Streams are mostly...

I'm just cross-posting this from ADK Forum. All the credit for program goes to Jelf, not me! "My name is Joseph Elfelt and I have a Thanksgiving Day present for you. I’ve written a map viewing program that is similar in concept to the work by colden46 on this site, but with some different...

So Dr. Wu's thread on hiking drunk got me thinking about morale boosters on the trail. So when you're hiking, and your legs and feet hurt a lot, and you're drenched in sweat, and the weather sucks, what boosts your morale? What boosts it better than anything else? Curiosity I suppose. ;)

Trail Conditions: Plenty of mud at lower elevations. Round had some ice towards the summit, so conditions were a bit slippery. Dial had about 3 inches of snow on top, with a few drifts that were deeper. Special Equipment Required: I brought yaktrax (don't have microspikes yet), but didn't use...

Ok, so I’m back. I apologize for my absence (not that anyone really cares all that much ;-) As many of you know, I disappeared over the summer to guide canoe and kayak trips in Minnesota. Upon my return, I hiked the Trap Dike on Colden, finished the ADK Fire Tower Challenge, and Hiked the Indian...