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Happy New Year Everyone! I took advantage of the holiday today by hiking the Tongue Range on Lake George from Fifth Peak down to First Peak and back. Not high peaks, but a great workout and great views none the less. Blue skies stayed to the north and clouds came in to the south. The pictures...

I took my dog Rev up HaBa on Sunday to finish her 46. We had been at 44 for awhile and I decided it was time. We got on the trail from the Garden at 6:23... 1st ones out. 5 cars were in the parking lot from overnight stays. Fast easy hiking to the soothing Shorey Shortcut (2.5 hrs). We bogged...

Nice day today for a bushwhack from Palmer Pond on Blue Ridge Road to Big Marsh Pond and Marsh Pond Mountain in the Dix Mountain Wilderness Area. I've picked away at most of the lesser peaks in the DMWA. They are all spectacular. I found the best viewpoint was from the southern tip of the...

This trip turned out to be one of the most perfect trips ever. Leesa and I arrived on Thursday night and we did a couple days of hiking in so-so weather before having the perfect day to head for Katahdin on Sunday. We both went in to Chimney Pond via the Chimney Pond Trail. Then I went up the...

Friday was just a spectacular weather day. I took advantage of the weather to climb Pico and Killington from Route 4. I parked at the trailhead just west of Shelburne Pass. Trail conditions were great. I didn't see any of the porcupines that have supposedly taken over Pico Peak. Fortunately...

My wife, Leesa, and I took advantage of the perfect weather on Saturday to do a loop hike of the lower Great Range (minus LWJ). We started at the Garden and went to Johns Brook Lodge, then up the Orebed Trail. We hit Saddleback first, then took a side trip to Pyramid where we stopped to have...

BillB and I set out to tackle Hough Peak via the Lillian Brook herd path today. This would complete my W46 and set him up for a finish tomorrow on Giant/Rocky Peak. The weather forecast called for mostly cloudy skies, but we were rewarded with bluebird skies by 10 AM, mild temps and light...

A day on Haystack with no wind! I climbed on Monday for that reason. Visibility wasn't great, but at least I could stand and not crawl. You could see down below, but not the summits. I intended to hit Haystack, then if all went well, go north on the Great Range to the Wolf Jaw col and drop back...

A weather repeat of yesterday. Still no wind and mild temps. I decided to climb Cliff and Redfield from Upper Works. I left Rev at home because of the icy cliffs. She's already done Cliff in the summer, and I'm sure she would have liked to try in winter, but I didn't want that. I started out at...

I decided to climb Marshall Monday primarily due to the high wind warning and the projected -20 degree F wind chill. Boy they were wrong, at least on Marshall. It was a beautiful day with light winds most of the day. It sure is much faster on the Calamity Brook Trail from Upper Works in the...

The Seward Range, D-E-S 2/7/13 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I managed to get back up to the Seward Range yesterday to hike Donaldson, Emmons and Seymour (I did Seymour last Sunday). It was a great chance to get in the Coreys Road one last...

Most everyone hit Seymour and the rest of the Sewards early in the season for fear of losing the road to the summer trailhead. I wasn't able to capitalize early, but I did today. I figured that after the midweek thaw, the road would be driveable, and it was. Only our car and a truck were in the...

My wife and I climbed Colden via Lake Arnold Saturday. We went up and back the same way. Minimal snow down low. As we approached Lake Arnold there was a nice 3-4 " of snow on top of the snowcrete. Somehow we managed to avoid the high winds that hit everybody else yesterday. 55 mph winds were...

I climbed Whiteface and Esther today from the ASRC. Crunchy firm snow all the way today. No postholing. It made for quick progress on these two. We did them both in 5 hours, 15 minutes, including at least 20 minutes on the summit of Whiteface. We were hiking under overcast skies on Esther, but...

Thursday's weather forecast for the Adirondacks called for a mostly sunny day with light winds and temps around 30 degrees. I took the day to climb Giant & Rocky Peak Ridge. When I arrived, the weather was great in the valley, but the summit of Giant was still in the clouds. I headed up...

I was supposed to be skiing at Gore today with my son. Something came up and he had to back out. Plan B was to park at the AMR parking area, ski the lake road to the Weld trail and then hike Sawteeth. When I tried to get out the door, my dog Rev wedged herself between me and the door and said...

Our intended trip to Porter and possibly Cascade fell short today as Leesa and I waded through snow above Little Porter. It's great to see so much snow. Full sun made the snow heavy on the south side of Porter and we turned around at about 3400 feet after having a late start at 9:30. Great...

I climbed Lower Wolfjaw yesterday from the Rooster Comb parking lot in Keene Valley. Just a dusting of snow at the trailhead, but once I reached 3000', it pile up quick with over a foot on the summit. Nobody had been on the trail, so I got a workout breaking trail my first time out this winter...

These are a little known pair of gems. I hiked them today as a loop hike. And better yet, I saw a snowshoe hare for the 2nd time in 2 days, and this time I got a picture. The hiking is easy in this area, except I waded through some thick prickers early in the hike. Both summits have great...

I had an interesting day today that didn't go quite as planned. I successfully did a bushwhack hike to Niagara mountain, but had a couple mishaps along the way. 1st - I had to ford the Schroon River in knee deep water. I thought my 3 mil contractor grade garbage bags would do the trick to...