Wright Peak – Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
4,580 ft. | Ranked 16/46 in height | 12th peak climbed | 34 to go
Picking up where we left off…
After packing out from our Seymour hike, we headed to Lake Placid, where weather.com via my iPhone informed us that we could expect it to be cold and a bit [...]
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Wright Peak – Columbus Day weekend, part II
Posted in Peaks on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seymour – Columbus Day weekend part I
Posted in Peaks on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seymour Mountain – Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009
4,120 ft. | Ranked 34/46 in height | 11th peak climbed | 35 to go
The trip we planned: Sat. 10/10: Leave Corey’s Rd./ Seward trailhead on to hike in along the Ward Brook Truck Trail to either the Blueberry Lean-To (4.5 mi.) or Ward Brook Lean-To (5.4 mi.) depending [...]
Big Slide Mountain
Posted in Peaks on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Big Slide Mountain – Sat., Sept. 26, 2009
4240 ft. | Ranked 27/46 in height | 10th peak climbed | 36 to go
Route: Trailhead at the Garden to Big Slide summit via the Brothers (blue trail markers, 4.0 mi.). On the descent, followed the blue trail back down to the junction with Slide Mountain Brook trail [...]
Tabletop Mountain
Posted in Peaks on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tabletop Mountain – Saturday, September 19, 2009
4,420 ft. | Ranked 19/46 in height | 9th peak climbed | 37 to go
Route: Van Hoevenberg trail from ADK Loj to Marcy Dam; continued along Phelps Brook trail toward Marcy to the spur herd path to Tabletop’s summit. Descent was via herd path to end of spur, back [...]
Rocky Peak Ridge
Posted in Peaks on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rocky Ridge Peak – Sunday, September 13, 2009
4,420 ft | Rank by height: 20/46 | 8th peak climbed | 38 to go
The route: From Rt. 73, we took the Zander Scott/Ridge Trail toward Giant Mountain (2.7 miles), and then took the spur trail toward Rocky Peak Ridge (1.6 miles). Then we headed east, traverse hiking [...]
Marcy and Phelps, or, 2 trips, 2 peaks, 9 months, 1 post. Oops.
Posted in Peaks on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We kind of spaced out on y’all for a while there. Sorry about that. To understand why, you might visit our other blog to see what we’ve been up to. As a general rule, if one hasn’t been updated, it’s likely we’re working on the other one.
The reader’s digest version of our excuse is that [...]
Esther and Whiteface Mountains
Posted in Peaks on September 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Esther Mountain
4,240 ft. | ranked 28/46 in height | 4th peak climbed | 42 to go
Whiteface Mountain
4,867 ft. | ranked 5/46 in height | 5th peak climbed | 41 to go
Last weekend, we did our 4th and 5th peaks – Esther and Whiteface. We did them in a fairly unorthodox manner, for hikers. For one [...]
Cascade and Porter
Posted in General Discussion, Peaks, tagged Add new tag on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cascade Mountain
4098 ft. | ranked 36/46 in height | 2nd peak climbed | 44 to go
Porter Mountain
4059 ft. | ranked 38/46 in height | 3rd peak climbed | 43 to go
Memorial Day weekend provided us with two days of beautiful weather; Jayme and I took advantage of the first one to climb two more peaks!
Cascade [...]
Giant Mtn: A [successful] crash course in backpacking
Posted in Gear, Peaks on September 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Note: Giant, our first peak in our pursuit of the 46, is ranked #12 of the 46 high peaks in elevation, at 4627 feet. A full collection of our photos from the venture can be found here.
You’re probably best served to read Chris’s earlier post before this one, because I’ll skip the parts that would be redundant.
A [...]
Giant Mountain (or “Why dry weather can be as bad as wet weather.”)
Posted in Peaks, tagged Giant Mountain on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Early on Saturday morning (9/22/07) Jayme and I woke up, dropped off the dog with our friends Gideon and Jen, and drove north into the Adirondacks.
Having packed in advance, we made pretty good time and were on the trail by about 10:15 a.m. We decided to try the eastern approach to Giant Mountain via Rocky [...]
