Hiking stats at a glance: ~8 Miles Total (+4 miles for my unintentional detour) 5 hours 2 High Peaks – Street 4,160 ft and Nye 3,895 ft ~2,800 ft of elevation gain I left the Garden parking lot after finishing Big Slide feeling good and the day was warming up so I made my way over to the Loj […]
Hike stats at a glance: 8 Miles total 3.5hrs Total Time Including Stops 1 High Peak – Big Slide 4,239 ft Cloudy with temperatures in the 40’s With only a few peaks left to finish up my 46er journey the name of the game on this day trip was efficiency. My goal was to hike Big Slide in the […]
For a change of pace this past weekend I made a geology fueled adventure to the south central Adirondacks. The goal of the trip was to explore a new area of the park I haven’t seen and also to collect some minerals from old mines in the area. I will be making a separate post for my trip to the […]
Hiking stats at a glance: 6.8 Miles Total ~4 hours total ~2,000 ft of elevation gain 1 peak, Hurricane Mountain 3,678 ft For the second day of our trip we got a late start so we decided to just enjoy a delicious breakfast at the ADK Cafe before setting off for another shorter hike. We settled on hiking Hurricane […]
Hiking stats at a glance: 5.7 miles 4 hrs total with lengthy summit stops ~2,250 ft of elevation gain 2 High Peaks – Cascade Mountain 4,098 ft, Porter Mountain 4,058 ft This weekend in the Adirondack High Peaks was a little different than usual as I brought my girlfriend Kelly with me for her first ever Adirondack High Peaks […]
Hike stats at a glance: ~19 Miles 6,000 ft of elevation gain 4 High Peaks – Nippletop (4,610), Dial (4,003), Colvin (4,081) and Blake (3,970) 10 hours total time ~80 degrees and sunny I will apologize for my outrageously long post in advance, but a long day calls for a long post and I do not want to leave anything out […]
Hike stats at a glance: ~20 miles 2 High Peaks – Mount Redfield (4,606ft) Cliff Mountain (3,960ft) 10 hours total time Hot and Humid ~80 Degrees For my first hiking trip back in the place I like to call home, the Adirondack High Peaks, I chose to go with climbing Cliff and Redfield. I decided for this trip […]
Grey Towers National Historic Site is a historic home and property in Milford, Pennsylvania which is operated by the USDA Forest Service. At first glance you might be confused as to why the Forest Service is operating a historic site such as this but once you understand the history of the family which built it everything begins to make more […]
I was certainly sad to leave the west coast and end my 10 day trip to all sorts of new and exciting places but just because I was home did not mean the adventure had to end! I have to admit I did have a bit of travel fatigue so going anywhere far was not really on my to do […]
Canyon stats at a glance: 4.3 miles (0.7 miles technical) 9 Total Rappels, 170 ft max ~10 hrs total time Weather was hot and the water was ice cold. I’m not going to go into too much detail on the specifics of our descent down the Water Canyon but figured I would give you guys a short over view […]
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