Hiking stats at a glance: ~18 miles total ~3800 ft of elevation gain 1 High Peak – Allen 4,347 ft ~8hrs This past weekend I headed up to the High Peaks on Saturday night to meet up with a member of the ADK High Peaks forum, Alistair for a hike up Allen on Sunday. Generally no one has good […]
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 […]
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 […]
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