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Allen was not high on my list and I just do not make an effort to go and visit it. However this trip was needed to clean-up loose ends and finish another 46 round. Leaving the trailhead at 6:30, I arrived at the Opalescent River temporary crossing about 1.5 hours later. I brought gaiters to help...

This may be a revisit to a previous topic, but I have not been able to find it. It looks like the Ampersand Club, in their infinite wisdom, hacked the hell out of trees coming out of their club property and following trail #129 for a couple of miles then painting the trees in spray paint blue...

Seymour Mountain 9/27/2008 While the weatherman predicted a rainy day for both Friday and Saturday, I did not let this stop me for a visit to this challenging hike. Seymour can be a wet and slippery hike especially on the slides. The trip started with a Friday off from work. I drove in from...

Friday, August 29 was a great day to hike a great trail up Cliff. The conditions were excellent. The trail crew (Christine, Gary and others) have made this herd path so well defined and easy to follow the only thing missing was disks on the trees. I must give that trail crew all high-fives. I...

(Yvon, I had to even the score) On 23 February I headed down the AMR road to start my way up toward Dial or Nippletop. The Leach trail was already broken out so I choose to start there. The trail was easy to follow up to the Noonmark shoulder where the previous tracks turned around. From there...

ALGonquin Bob and I departed the Buffalo area at midnight on Thursday to visit Big Slide on Friday (1/11/2008). We knew it would be a wet day as it rained the entire 6.5 hours drive. We took turns driving while the passenger attempted to get some sleep. As we made our way up the Northway it...

Many of you know that our friend, Dawn, is taking on the AT. She has taken hundreds of photos since her start in mid March. I just offered to post the photos on my web site. Today I started building the web pages to accomodate the many hundreds of photos. In the next few days I will publish all...

This day, 2/24, our group of 5 had a goal of visiting the Wolfjaws and Armstrong ascending the Wedge Brook Trail and returning the Beaver Meadows Trail. Success depended on the trail conditions and today were to be challenged. We left the AMR Registration point at 6:26 am and quickly were at the...

On Saturday (2/24) our little group of 4 will be heading up the Wedge Brook Trail to the Wolfjaws and hopefully coming back on the Beaver Meadow Trail after visiting Armstrong. For interested parties, we are leaving the parking area at 6:00 am. Last weekend I was there (solo) breaking trail...

Blakclab2020 and I choose Algonquin and Iroquois for our first climb together. We set out from the trailhead at the Loj parking area at 6:30 am. The trails were ice covered with a light dusting of snow. We made good time this cool morning, which was near the freezing mark. Blacklab2020 wanted to...

On Friday morning I realized there were no scheduled things-to-do on Saturday. During lunch I went home a packed up a daypack for quick trip to the ADKs. It was raining very heavy in the Niagara Falls region and I packed all the gear into a Dry Bag, which fit the daypack perfectly. Let it rain...

JayH and myself visited Whiteface and Esther Mountains on this Spring-like day. Later in the day, we would not say this. We started from the Research Center parking area just past 8:30 am and ascended the Marble Mountain ski run. At the top of Marble Mountain, the trail joins with the Wilmington...

One benefit you get traveling for business, is the opportunity to add a few days to play. This trip allowed me the chance to climb UK’s highest peak, Ben Nevis. Although it is a height we are accustomed too standing at 4,406 feet, you are required to climb almost the entire height, as you must...

Talking about a quite weekend, no climbers, no trail walkers, not even a mouse. I arrived at the empty trailhead about 10:00 pm Friday night and crashed in my truck. By 5:30 am I was heading down the trail. The weather cooperated until 12:30 with no rain only a light misting. The trails were...

On May 13th, TMax, Hikethe115 and myself were visiting Mount Marshall. On the way down, Hikethe115 saw a MSR snowshoe off trail. I went back up to pick it up and pack it out. In Trail Conditions, Scott Albert reported a lost MSR snowshoe on April 11th. I tried to send him a message with no...

After a successful ascent of Mount Redfield on the previous day, I started out solo toward Cliff hoping for the same conditions. The previous night it rained for several hours and without any freezing temperatures, the remaining snow pack was turning into poor, unconsolidated conditions. The...

On Saturday March 25, Shin and myself left the Garden for Big Slide at 8:25. The weather was a bright sunny day with only a hint of clouds. The trail conditions were very good with only some ice spots on the cliffs heading up the first Brother. From the second Brother, we could see the clouds...

It is a little early to start the bear canister conversations, but BearVault came out with a new model that just might interest some climbers getting ready to buy one. The original models from Garcia, BearVault and others have always been designed to have the space for a weeks worth of food...

My “Welcome Back” hike after a 2 month sabbatical was a planned solo trip into the Santanoni Range. The plan was to hike with full pack up near the cliffs at 3,200, or if I was feeling good to go all the way to Times Square. Then off to Panther and Couchie first, saving Santanoni for later that...