Magazine of the Adirondack FortySixers Volume XXXVII No 1 SpringSummer 2000 From the Editors

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Contents After these many years as editors of Peeks we are beginning to feel somewhat the same as Reg Maybe Minutes James A Barnshaw 4 Spring Meeting its that were getting older Maybe were becoming From the Winter Desk Wil Desbiens 5 our parents But 46ing it seems has changed Peeks Sketches Mike Becket 7 We with the Adirondacks Our father was Olympus Mountain of the Gods 9 grew up one of the members of the of by Dean Gletsos original FortySixers Evolution of a 46er 11 Troy although something called World War II got in Gross by Jay the way of his finishing Something about hiking was A Climb in the Adirondacks 13 simpler purer then The trails were tough the equip by Vernon Sanders ment but the task seemed easier We think it LukesWinter Climb 15 primitive was an attitudeonethat rooted on fellow climb by David Graves your Avalanche on Wright Peak 17 ers and passionately cared for the mountains by Tony Goodwin Today however the hiking mentality increasingly Partner is a Rabbit 21 My Hiking seems to take on a Guinness Book of Records pos by Janet Stein ture a can you top that approach that focuses on Presidents Page Barbara Harris 23 the moment and not the constantthemountains Hiking Twins 29 Letters 34 We trust that 46ers will be true to our traditions and continue to place attention and commitment to the Deadlines Summer 15 Winter November 1 May natural bounty that has brought us all such pleasure

Cover High Peak Silhouette by Rob Reynolds

The membership of the Adirondack FortySixers Inc consists of hikers who have climbed to the summits of the 46 major peaks of the Adirondacks The club is dedicated to environmental protection to education for proper usage of wilderness areas and to participation in work projects in cooperation with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation to meet these objectives

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President George Sloan called the TrailmastersReport noting the Norden trustee of Grace Hudowalskis meeting to order at 737 pm important work done on Street Nye Adirondack 46er Conservation Trust welcoming the 250 plus attendees and and the Elk LakeMarcy trail The Elk who noted that the Trust is a charitable introducing the rest of the Executive Lake trail to Dix is impassable due to organization completely separate from Committee members in attendance blowdown and work is stalled awaiting the 46ers Grant requests from 501C3 George also introduced past presidents DEC Department of Environmental groups will be considered with recent Nancy Allen Joe Urbanczyk Jim Conservation clearance Joe presented grants going to the 46ers Historians Bailey Phil Corell Ed Ketchledge and Volunteer Service Awards to three Office for the Leave No Trace Grace Hudowalski 9 Grace at age individuals two for 146 hours of work pamphlet and the mailing of the survey 93 stood and waved to the attendees and one for 346 hours of trail work Joe to the Adirondack Mountain Club who then stood and gave her a then reminded everyone to give ADK for the Summit Stewardship resounding applause something back to these wonderful program and to the 46ers Trailmasters George Sloan gave the Treasurers mountains encouraging us to do trail for equipment needs L John report noting that all is well and the work with the 46ers or some other mentioned that the Trust has a Peeks Editors report asking that if group committee of seven members currently anyone has any articles and President George Sloan announced all 46ers who decide on the recipients photographs for upcoming editions that the 2000 Fall Meeting would be of grants from the Trust The Trust they should be sent to Suzanne Lance held the weekend of October 14th one currently has approximately 115000 Phil Corell gave the Outdoor week after Columbus Day weekend in assets and will benefit more from Leadership Workshop Report The The Meeting will most likely be at the todays auction of Grace Hudowalskis early May Workshop was attended by Keene Valley School and feature a Adirondack memorabilia 37 of the 44 signups With the slide show with speaker L John made a presentation to temperature in the 70s and no rain George also noted that the recent George Sloan who will be stepping snow or wind of note the conditions survey results returned by 46ers are down as President after this meeting were not optimal for learning outdoor being entered into a database and that for all his dedicated service and hard skills Phil promised to do better next the results should be available this fall work for the 46ers George received a year Phil also mentioned three High The Executive Committee has formed standing ovation from the appreciative Peaks regulations 1 maximum group a Long Range Planning Committee attendees size for overnight camping in the LRPC that will look at the results The Election of Officers occurred eastern High Peaks is 8 2 maximum create a report and try to ascertain with the Recording Secretary casting day trip group size is 15 3 no open whether the 46ers should undertake one vote for the slate of officers as fires are allowed in the High Peaks new work or directions nominated which included Barbara Phil Corell introduced Tony George introduced L John Van continued on 22 Goodwin Executive Director of ATIS Adirondack Trail Improvement Society who reported on the trail conditions and made a presentation Tony thanked the Trailmasters and their work teams for the clearing of

extensive blowdown on the Elk Lake Marcy and several other trails Tony then mentioned that while he was recently surveying the fire damage on Noonmark he found an old round

aluminum marker that was inscribed with the date of placement June 7 1941 and the individual who placed it Dirt Dittmar Ditt happily accepted the marker stating that this was the only marker that he was never able to find and retrieve

Joe Urbanczyk gave the L John Van Norden keeps the bids climbing at the Conservation Trust Auction 4 From the Winter Desk by Wil Desbiens 4071W

Under normal circumstances you would think that the new millennium would have given a lot of winter hikers the incentive to finish the Winter 46 on the New Year In fact several had written in the year before hoping to do just that Well of course they were not counting on Hurricane Floyd and the wind storms that followed Many of the traditional herd paths which were already difficult to follow in winter were pretty much impossible to find Even some of the popular trails such as the one into the Dixes from Elk Lake were strewn with blowdown Climbing over under and around extensive From left Janet Stein Bob Novick and Alain Chevrette celebrate their conquest of blowdown can exhaust even the best on March 2000 hiker Skylight 11

So New Years came and went and finishing my Four Season 46 I made but still a long ways off Knowing no reports were in Usually by the end the 4 season within 1 yearwow this was just not my day I relented and of January I have five to eight persons Every hiker seems to have a headed back to the parking lot On who have reported completing the mountain that appears to be his nemesis January 1 2000 New Years Day my Winter 46 This year it wasntuntil and for Tim Hay of Morrisonville that brother Tom and I went for Seymour January 28th that I received any seems to be Seymour From a few We started on the trail just after 7 am correspondence regarding completing reports the following descriptions This time the temperature being in the the Winter 46 Since Janet Stein of appear On January 2 1999 my teens was more reasonable At the Lake Placid has inet Alain Chevrette brother Tom Hay and I attempted Blueberry leanto we talked to five other she has been climbing all of the 46 in Seymour We arrived at the trailhead at hikers who tried to hike it at midnight each season and as they say she 7 am It was a balmy minus 30 degrees I guess they wanted to be on top to moves right along In her letter she luckily with no wind We walked all the celebrate the millennium They said writes The last time I wrote you last way into the base of Seymour and then they didntmake it As we followed year I had completed 37 winter started to head up But then my feet got their tracks it was again at about 3000 peaks With the start of the new winter cold and Tom was getting tired from a feet where they made their mistake I season I was anxious to complete the cold that he had for the past week So knew not to follow them that way We 9 remaining peaks I thought it was an we turned around and went back to the headed to the left and in about 50 feet achievable goal of finishing by January car On December 24 1999 found the herd path However from 1 2000 Mother nature had different Christmas eve I went back to the this point on it was one blowdown after plans Twice denied by Marshall Janet Seward range to hike Seymour I was another until the last 300 yards before and Alain set out for another attempt on the trail just after 7 am and it was the canister at the summit We made it on January 9 2000 Alain and l got easy going to the herd path There to the canister at 1130 am I was very an early start for my final winter peak could see tracks from Steve Ward who happy to have found it this time On Marshall Once again we went though had signed the register as hiking it on 19200 Tim went on to finish on Avalanche Pass and over both lakes to December 22 As I followed Steves Haystack by himself at 1145 am 1 the Herbert Brook path The path was tracks he did a good job of staying on 2 hour before Janet Stein on Marshall not broken and we had some fumbling the herd path until about 3000 feet after also hiking Basin around in the blowdown early on but where he went to the right to skirt Dave Marcy of Latham only had a after we reached the pondswamp the around a blowdown From there it few peaks left to climb this past season path was good It was a bit of work looked like he made three attempts to Dix and Hough Tabletop and breaking through the 8 inches of fresh get back to the herd path but he as well Iroquois His first attempt on Iroquois snow but I was not to be defeated We as I could not find it On one of my last was on ML Kings Birthday 116 arrived triumphant on Marshalls attempts I was able to climb onto a Istarted out at 847 am and met up summit at 1215 pm This was a bump which brought me above the trees with two nice young hikers Nancy double celebration because I was also and I could see the peak off to the right continued on next page 5 Winter desk

continued from page 5 Rochester I am pleased to report ourselves and then I hiked back up with who finished winter 46ers the to the summit and out to the Copeland ofLong Lake that I finished my on E group her Winter 46 last year and Billher Dix on January 8th 2000 at 130 We vehicles On March 18th Steve climbed brother a graduate student from the did E Dix from the slide on the S Hunter in the Catskills to University of Vermont We summited Bouquet river side Very icy and almost complete the Northeast 111 in winter At 1130 Algonquin at 1145 with zero visibility didntmake it because of our exposure amThomas Haskins of and 40 to 50 mile an hour winds in to an open icy patch just below the Burnt Hills 10 minutes after Steve on whiteout conditions It was like the false summit A little prayer and trust Marshall celebrated his 46th winter Ted Mack amateur hour both of my in our crampons got us over the icy peak on Skylight Tom had hoped to snowshoes came off We had to find tongue and back on solid snow and finish at an earlier date but as all winter them in the worst possible conditions trees Quite the adventure hikers know the mountains have other yet somehow we did and poor Nancy David Graves sent in a fairly plans Tom writes My plan was to was actually blown over a couple of lengthy report 108 pages which will climb the Seward Range on a trip before times on the summit They wanted to be hard to compress His heartwarming Christmas then do my final four go with me to get my 46th but after story regarding climbing Cascade his peaks Cliff Redfield Gray and having difficulty with finding the trail 46th winter peak with his family Skylight on another trip after down to Boundary I suggested we appears as a separate article in this Christmas Reality had other things in should call it a day and head back On Peeks issue page 15 mind I hit the trail alone at 645 pm 1222000 I climbed Iroquois Mt I The first of five March l lth under a 60lb pack heading for reached Boundary at 1233 pm and finishers was Charles Chuck Blueberry leanto Traveled all the way crossed the col between Boundary and Kolodzey of Port Henry on Marcy at in by moonlight and arrived at the Iroquois in 24 inches of fresh powder 1100 am under some severe leanto at 907 pm Prepared camp Some drifts were waist deep I climbed conditions For my last winter peak I boiled up water and hit the sack at 11 up and reached the summit of Iroquois hiked with Steve Noyes and an old pmUp at 5 am prep for the day hit at 108 pm I experienced every hiking friend William McDonough the trail at 630 to do Seward Donaldson and possible weather imaginable The weather was foggy and windy as Emmons Despite good throughou t both days The we started up the rocky summit The conditions I got very run down while temperatures were in the 100 degrees wind was blowing at gale force and the heading up Seward ed note no below zero to zero range with fresh fog formed a frozen rind on all our cheerleaders Tom Worried about snow on the There relief the I decided to turn back at powder trails whiteout gear was some near being alone conditions extreme wind and even blue plaque under the summit As bad as the 10 am about half way up Seward I met to skies and sunshine I still had two great conditions were I got nfy pictures and three other hikers decided try days and met some nice people This celebrated with a bottle of Champagne again with them but turned back again makes it Winter 46 my wife gave me when I realized Ijust couldntdeal with We received a note and climb list Twenty minutes after Chuck the fatigue Despite the failure at from Paul Dicresce of Stony Creek finished on Marcy Christopher S Seward I stuck with the planned trip stating that on February 13th he Ward Steve of Durham Maine after Christmas Met Mark Lowell at finished his Winter 46 on Basin With summited Marshall Of his final 46er Upper at 925 am 1226and reached him was Joe Poliquin his companion hike Steve writes Iwas planning on Uphill leanto at 215 pm headed up toward Cliff tracks on most hikes our simple going on a trip led by John Hartzell wdaypacks to set celebration of my completion of the which was canceled at the last moment as far as possible before dark Unable Winter 46 consisted of a handshake John suggested I try John Hammond to stay on the herd path due to At the end of February with only who was going with a group from blowdown so we applied the rule of four people reporting in it looked like Watertown NY I called John up and got about half way to the it would be a year when the number of Hammond and we agreed to meet at northerly summit before turning back finishers would not exceed single Upper Works at 80 am I waited at to camp Good nights sleep and headed digits What then happened was the Upper Works until 815 am and back up at 815 am on the 27th unusual thirteen persons waited until then decided they had most likely Finished setting tracks up the first the last two weeks of winter to finish called the trip due to the driving summit slow going but with much enthusiasm of and did not send in reports until the end conditions snow and freezing rain I we continued on Lots of March or well into April We also hiked to Flowed Lands crossed the blowdown covered with several inches of received late correspondence of a lake and started up Herbert Brook to snow nasty travelingno finisher on January 8th East Dix and the summit of Marshall arriving at snowshoes required Decided to contour summit on February 26th Cascade to bring 1120 am I signed in and made the around the 1 st to right the total count to 19 the same as was usual register notes and headed back west thinking that we could avoid reported in 1999 down When I got to the saddle I met blowdown on the ridge Very thick on We received a note but not yet a the advance contingent of the steep hillside followed a band of cliffs climb list from Peter Bushnell of Watertown We introduced group continued on page 8 6 Peeks Sketches

Compiled by Mike Becker 1889

The Class of 1999 includes 191 new of the High Peaks Colvin Nippletop SisterBrother Kate McCahill 4483 members bringing the total to 4638 Nye and South Dix and David McCahill 4610 Lake 46ers Here are the highlights of the Placid Class of 1999 HusbandWife Charlie and Sara Sabatine 4448 and 4449 Victor Highlights from the question Recorded 46ers in 1999 Male 148 Jackson and Shirley Thomas 4461 and Describe any unusual incidents or Female 43 4462 Webster James and Judith natural phenomena that you Strohmeyer 4464 and 4463 encountered names and numbers Ages Under 10 2 1019 35 20 Olmstedville Daniel and Mary Jane omitted 29 16 3039 27 4049 43 50 Shonn 4576 and 4575 Akron 59 50 6069 14 Age Unreported Daniel and Cynthia Carr 4578 and saw two guys carrying a canoe over 4 Average age of those reporting 4577 Syracuse Robert and Janis Mt Marcy on a very windy day 393 Spilker 4594 and 4593 attacked by pine martens at Bradley Loudonville Charles and Linda Pond Leanto Where They Live California 1 Norris 4601 and 4600 saw a rescue on Algonquin where a Canada 6 Connecticut 5 Delaware Westhampton MA William and helicopter landed on the summit 1 Georgia 1 Hawaii 1 Illinois Nancy Flynn 4620 and 4619 followed by bear coming back from 1 Kentucky 1 Maryland 2 Cropseyville J Grant and Marcella Dial and Bear Den Massachusetts 3 New Hampshire Esler 4636 and 4637 Rochester saw mother bear and 3 cubs eating 3 New Jersey 3 New York 145 blueberries on Spotted Mtn Ohio 2 Pennsylvania 3 Rhode FatherSon Jerry Moppert 4473 and was forced to evacuate Marcy Dam at Island 1 South Carolina 1 Texas sons Evan 4471 and Ross 4472 230 am because we were surrounded 1 Virginia 3 Vermont 7 Cambridge Edward Mazdzer 4491 by over 15 bears and Chris 4490 Peru Raymond northern lights while camping at The Youngest Twins Brecken Esper Sergott 4506 Liverpool and ColdenFlowed Lands 4625 and Josiah Esper 4626 Long Michael 4507 Amherst Jeffrey crossing Shorey Short Cut during the Lake 5 years old Perkins 4471 and Lucas 4572 big storm 71595trees falling driving Tully Erling Svendsen 4584 and rain lightning The Oldest Nick Ladanowski 4516 Edward 4583 West Chazy Neil at age 65 climbed 21 peaks after a Pointe Claire Quebec 67 years old Carter 4612 and Gerald 4611 triple bypass operation Warrensburg My hair stood on end during an Who Took The Longest Time David electrical storm on Nippletop Hanchette 4585 Corte Madera CA MotherSon Heather Hutchins 4557 wind rushing through the cracks on took 48 years and Benjamin 4556 Stowe VT top of Basin sounded very unusual almost sounded like cellophane Who Took The Shortest Time Jeff Brothers Joseph Gervais 4604 blowing around Chase 4529 Newington CT Patrick Castleton and Paul Gervais 4605 completed my 46th on Seymour in a Picard 4530 New York and Isaac Endicott Brecken Esper 4625 and tuxedo Ray 4531 Menands hiked together Josiah Esper 4626 Lake Placid bear screwed off the top of a jar of and took 27 days peanut butter by Lake Colden Sisters Becky Pfaffenbach 4465 Friends know that if they camp with First Peak Climbed Cascade 51 and Jenny Pfaffenbach 4466 Scotia us there is bound to be a continuous Marcy 43 Giant of the Valley 19 Janice Kennedy 4523 Peru and Jean downpour Algonquin 16 Wright 10 Lower Ryan 4525 Peru Betsy Laundrie seeing many partridges on top of Wolf Jaw 8 Phelps 8 No climbers 4615 and Catherine Laundrie 4616 Couchsachraga started on 21 of the High Peaks Plattsburgh

46th Peak Climbed Allen 19 Haystack 17 Whiteface 15 Rocky Peak Ridge 12 Colden 10 Emmons 10 Seymour 10 No climbers finished on 10 of the High Peaks No one started or finished on 4 Winter Desk continued from page 6 for awhile then plunged back into the thickets Eventually the conditions got the best of us fatigued and with deflated enthusiasm we turned back arriving back at camp at 330 pm minus 7F on Tuesday morning packed up and headed out not really wanting to face another day of flailing through the puckerbrush Since Robert Novick of New Milford New Jersey finished on Marcy a couple of hours after Chuck Kolodzey you would think that they must have met along the way except Bob chose a different way to climb his last Winter 46 peak Bobs note about this hike states Ifinished my winter 46 on top of Marcy yesterday with two of the greatest people I have ever met Jim Hiham left and Tom Hunt welcome the year 2000 atop Whiteface Janet Stein and Alain Chevrette Pin lake it Pin too What a day it was A winter completed his winter 46 on Panther on was a little scary to see open water feet to the storm warning was in effect for Tuesday March 14th along with flowing just 50100 Saturday afternoon so I had my doubts Santanoni Mark was accompanied on left Couldntfind the trail to Sawteeth of completing the four I needed With this trip by Tony Solomon and Don but some workers came along and I Janets and Alainsmotivation we left Morrison Part of the way they were asked them It turns out the sign was about 30 feet a the Loj at 715 Made good time over accompanied by Ellen Ohnmacht and away obscured by the frozen lakes and followed a frozen Sally Iroquois Hoy I picked Marks snowy tree The trail wasnthard to account of as follow due to markers and a visible track up Redfield by 1040 Then a climbing Sawteeth being quick bushwhack over to the summit characteristic of his reporting style depression It sure took a long time of Skylight at just after 1200 ed The grand plan was to ski up the lake Based on map and memory I thought I Note must have just missed Tom do Sawteeth continue to Gothics was almost there long before I was Haskins A short break at Four check the time and maybe zip down and When I thought I was about 5 minutes from the Corners on top of Gray just after 100 up to Saddleback Yeah just zip summit I ditched my pack and another 30 minutes and then over to Marcy by 145 and the back up Gothics over to Sawteeth and tromped up for sunset completion of my winter 46 It was too then down the Carry trail Time Past 550 but still a nice view Id Blake from of Gothics and I think It windy for any celebration on top but permitting go up there Saddleback upon our return to the Loj at 420 then head back over Colvin on the way looks like the other four peaks will wait Alain surprised me with a bottle of out Yeah a 5 peak day just like that have to Champagne that he had carried the That was the plan but it depended on Saturday March 18th was a whole time What a guy Theyre both an early start I left the car at 1032 beautiful day and it was fitting that the best of the best two people with am but figured I could just go late into Wade Baxter of Albany should finish hearts of gold My thanks and the night Skiing up the road wasnton the summit of Marshall with some appreciation to both of them and to all bad but probably didntsave me any of his friends including his best friend who have helped me on my quest time over hiking On the way up the Eutaw his dog Wade is usually found David Meeker of Watertown also road 2 snowmobiles went by and at either leading or participating in Glens Falls ADK completed his Winter 46 on March 11 the lake they were nowhere in sight Chapter trips After finding There were fresh the canister he We climbing Santanoni Only receiving a apparently says signed in climb list from Dave there is little to snowmobile tracks on the lake so on took photos and ate a leisurely lunch the lake went The back down the at a nice comment on except congratulations I original plan called path sunny Dave for climbing Sawteeth from between spot My only regrets were that some the lakes I have been of the folks have me on and Mark Lowell of Canton may be may thinking that that pushed remembered for his photograph of the even if the late start made 5 impossible been such a big part of my winter HaleBopp comet that appeared on the skiing to interlaken would leave me 46ing were not here now I would have two for second and third liked to sit and lies with Ron cover of Peeks two years ago He also options peaks swap I the lake without Bruce Mark had an account of spending a winter skied up incident Lester Rowe McLane night camped near the summit canister although there were a few slightly Jim Weed Jim McElroy Patti of Allen talk about solitude Mark slushy spots At the south end of the continued on page 16 Olympus The Mountain of the Gods

by Constantine Dean Gletsos 3082

Mount Olympus or Olympos as the Greeks call it is of the Enipeos River in a westerly direction then crosses the highest in Greece 2917 meters9570 feet Since 1938 the river over a bridge while to the right of the river you it has been a National Park Mount Olympus is actually a can see cascading and splitting waterfalls The view is range of several high peaks of which Mitikas or Pantheon spectacular because you can see through the gorge all the meaning the Seat of Gods is the highest Olympus is the way down to Litochoro and the Aegean Sea Alpine legendary home of the ancient Greek and later Roman vegetation is everywhere There are heavily forested gods A lot of ancient ruins like those of the Dion Zeus mountain slopes and deep ravines as the trail gains City are nearby to explore Therefore Olympus besides elevation The forest range is between 16006000 feet but its awesome and rugged appearance has a certain mystique good views are abundant as the trail traverses mostly on the and a supernatural magic attributed to its reputation The side of the mountain The forest consists predominately of best time to climb this mountain is in summer in spite of firs oaks spruces and different pines including a very snowstorms and hail that are not a rarity even then Even in rugged white pine called Robola pinus heldreichii which the middle of the summer the temperatures fall drastically still grows up to an elevation level of 7200 feet to below freezing overnight So it is important for one who At 530 pmI arrived at the Zolotas shelter 100 beds plans to climb Olympus to use suitable clothes hats elev 6920 feet A large number of guests were celebrating footwear and equipment on the extensive verandah One can hear several languages Mount Olympus has its base on the plains of Thessaly spoken around the shelter A cheerful group of Israelis were and is only a few miles from the Aegean Sea in central singing pleasant songs but I did not understand a word Greece It is easily accessible by public and private Meanwhile the sun was gone clouds and mist were transportation bus train from Athens 200 miles south everywhere No time for rest I had to rush as I had made and from Thessaloniki 50 miles southwest Public reservations at another higher shelter called Kakalos 20 transportation is good very reliable and inexpensive in beds elev 8740 feet As I was off on my way somebody Greece so is renting a car Hertz Avis etc Free maps from the shelter yelled at me Are you Mr Gletsos People and information are available in any big city in Greece via from the Kakalos shelter were phoning worried about my the numerous tourist offices I suggest one use as a base whereabouts Nice to know So I said Yes and I pushed Litochoro a picturesque little town on the eastern foothills up ahead Within a short distance from the Zolotas shelter I of Olympus It is only three miles from an unspoiled came upon a great surprise a glacier was in front of me extensive white sand beach on the Aegean Sea Hotels and Fortunately the segment I had to cross was relatively flat two camping facilities which are good and inexpensive are and only 50 feet long However this glacier was about a available right on the beach quarter mile long and 200 feet in its maximum width There are several trails to Olympus from Litochoro The Nobody forewarned me that there are glaciers in the middle most popular and picturesque is the one that runs on both of summer in Greece Soon after the trees were gone and sides of the Enipeos River gorge However the easiest way small twofoot high bushes were the only vegetation After is to go with a car up to the end of the driveable road to a this only rocks were everywhere Now I was completely location called Prionia means the Saws elev 3620 feet out in the open with 360 degree unlimited views What a The name Prionia was acquired due to an extensive feeling However the wind had become stronger and in spite lumberyard operation located there in the early 1900s of my heavy clothes I started feeling chilled Meanwhile it Presently there is a parking lot a small rustic informal was getting darker and I was getting worried Would I reach restaurant and a public fountain with fresh mountaincool my shelter before I had to use my flashlight while alone in water There are some benches where one can sit and listen such an unknown territory to the soothing sound of running waters the melodious songs As the light was getting dimmer I saw the Kazania or of birds and feel the fresh mountain breezesanideal place Cauldrons with the Stefania hoops The Kazania is a huge for relaxation and reflection before or after a hike semicircular side of the Mount with about a 45 degree slope I started my solo hike after a heavy meal at the The Stefania are long strips of rock formations following restaurant at 230 on a sunny afternoon from Prionia on a the semicircular Kazania One who wants to reach the Plains wide and well maintained trail Alternatively one can start of the Muses and the upper shelters has to traverse via one the hike from Litochoro 13 miles below but that would be of the Stefania on a trail no more than three feet wide on a hike the trail follows the north very long Initially gorge continued on page 10

9 Olympus continued from page 9 two cars if one decides to do it the way I did itone in this enormous 45 degree slope It is more challenging Prionia and the other at Diastavrosi or Gorzia It is five occasionally when loose rocks from above are washed over miles from Diastavrosi to Litochoro the narrow trail making the crossing extremely unstable and It was a cold and windy day but the views were dangerous One wrong step and it can be all over On the practically unlimited while the trail was in the open That bottom of this Kazania one can see way down a glacier was so until I entered the thick but enchanting forest Soon Anyway I made it to my shelter at 830 pmwhen it after I met a caravan of 1015 mules loaded with supplies was completely dark and I had to briefly use my flashlight for the shelters above Such caravans operate several times There I was very warmly welcomed by the shelter crew and weekly from May to September The upper shelters operate 15 other hikers from all over the world I sat down to a tasty only during this period The caravans are lead by two to warm meal and I felt great Outside was very cold already three local men who belong to a certain clan called by that time while inside was very cozy and warm It was Kirazides This is their proud specialty as mountain caravan time to relax enjoy myself and the cheerful company of the leaders from generation to generation others I slept very well that night As the day became warmer the smell of the cedars firs Next day after an early breakfast and as the sun was and spruces on that summer day was indescribable and rising we left the shelter at 715 am to conquer Olympus unforgettable In the open spaces the wild flowers were The famous Mitikas We were a group of eight one German everywhere Now I had the time to see and smell the flowers four British two Greeks and one American myself We as they say While I am not a botanist I did some research reached the base of the rock about 800 am and we left our regarding flowers on Olympus and I was able to identify backpacks there Then the very steep and dangerous climb some of those species 1600 varieties are reported So started via the Chimney Loose rocks open ledges and from the 22 reported kinds oflocal flowers indigenous only unreliable footing made this one hour and fifteen minute to Olympus I was able to identify a red lilytype Lilium climb a real challenge However the easiersafer way up is heldeichii a whitemauve colombine Aquilegia amaliae well marked with red arrows every few yards In spite of a purplewhite specs bell flower Fritillaria mesanensis a the dangerous climb we all made it to the top without an little white bell cluster Convellaria majalis a large incident The spectacular views from the top a relatively intensely blue violettype Campanula oreadum a red wild flat rocky ledge were interrupted only by masses of clouds rose Rosa pendulina a pink type of carnation Dianthus passing by The views were alternating between other rocky means Zeus flower haematocalyx and many wild peaks closeby called the Thrones of Gods or the Crown an strawberries Franaria vesca extensive semicircular sharpedged mass of rocky peaks As far as wild life Olympus is unique with an abundance green picturesque valleys and rugged ravines We of it I personally saw many types of falcons at least one congratulated ourselves took pictures on the summit which type ofgolden eagle winter sparrows and crossbeakedjays is marked by a metal post on which a metal Greek flag is to open the pine cones A 1985 survey found 104 kind of attached Then we started the 45 minute descent to the birds 18 kinds of snails and amphibians and 32 kinds of bottom of the Chimney It was my 65th birthday and I did it vertebrates Among those are wild boars wolves and foxes all as planned Meanwhile the bears wild goats five out of seven types of After the summit my fellow cohikers went to other vultures deer and the lynx have become extinct peaks or they headed out So I decided to do three nearby As one descends one may visit some very interesting peaks Big Toumba 9234 feet Small Toumba 9033 feet locations a short distance from the trail For instance the Prophet Elias 9240 feet And that I did being joined by a Ithakisios cave elev 5540 feetacavern into a rock ledge couple of Germans on the latter peak Meanwhile the wind with a great view that the famous painter of Olympus had picked up it was cold and the clouds were gathering Vasilios Ithakisios used each summer for his numerous everywhere It was time for me to head for the shelter paintings of his beloved Mount Olympus from 19281940 That night I thoroughly enjoyed my achievement I knew also the ancient spring Staragos that still pours crystal clear that many climbers from as far as Australia and Japan came icecold water since ancient times It was very much to climb this wild and magnificent mountain However it worthwhile for me to do these sidetrips 2030minutes each was only on August 2 1913 86 years ago when a group to visit those sites of one Greek and two Swiss climbed Mitikas for the first As one continues down the trail becomes more time civilized that is wider flatter and better maintained As The next day it was time for me to leave this beautiful a matter of fact there are even some benches in several and wild mountain I felt sad I had an early breakfast got locations on the side of the trail Finally at 130 pm I ready and hit the trail alone It was a glorious morning and arrived at the Diastvrosis or Gorzia where a taxi waited the sun was just above the horizon It was shining a strange for me I had called it before I left the shelter and it was red glow on the massive rock of the Thrones of Gods or waiting for me for the eight mile drive back to Litochoro Crown above the Plain of the Muses It was an awesome Cellular phones are everywhere They are indispensable in sight that I will never forget I decided to return via a these mountains for communications and emergencies different route to see the other side of the mountain It was a wonderful dreamcometrueand very fulfilling specifically via the Giosos Pass Skonta Petrostrouga Barba experience I am looking forward in the future to climbing and end at the Diastavrosi or Gorzia The latter is the place again my wild and fascinating Mountain of the Gods where the driveable road starts Of course one should have Olympus 10 Evolution of an Adirondack 46er

by Jay Gross 4424

Excerpts from Jays hiking log ragging but prefer instead to view it as a good attitude for anyone who puts out fires for a living On our first trip to the close to 20 we both had Its finally here my 46er hike Its been two years four Dacks years ago long hair tattered and that months and 23 days since I started on this little quest Not wore jeans flannel shirts thought farrrrrr out what Id call a recordsetting pace everything was Jori Kraukauer the author of the much celebrated best seller Into Thin Air once said something like climbing Mt Everest is an intrinsically irrational act and It the Summer of 78 and we had a two the people who do it are beyond any rational discussion was planned the in Adirondacks Well climbing the Adirondacks is an intrinsically rational nighter to Marcy highest peak the at feet in the best of act Dontget me wrong the Adirondacks are not your 5344 I was shape my life having neighborhood park People have died in the Adirondacks completed four years of competition at the national level in and especially the winter climbing here is not something to NCAA Division II gymnastics As I recall however I had the undertake without proper knowledge and gear but for the worst possible gearacanvas backpack jeans heavy stiff leather cotton flannel and a rubber most part the summits are well within the abilities of the boots Ts shirts it didntseem to matter We in from average person The Adirondacks are simply good sport ponchobut humped the ADK around Avalanche The peak I had inadvertently picked for my historic Loj trailhead Lake scrambling and under then ascent Rocky Peak Ridge so named by Bill Laverty in 1889 over boulders as large as a pickup truck Lake Colden Red to at and I had an interesting connection It turns out it was first around and up the Trail camp Feldspar Brook We able to the drink summited by two Russian guides in 1878 which although a were camp by stream directly from it and cook fireall the bit of a stretch is interesting because my maternal over an open things youre either allowed to shouldntdo of grandfather A1 Schmugler was Russian Its unlikely that uot do today or because health concerns Our were stuffed with canned they knew one another since my grandfather didntcome to packs goods metal and lots of cotton the US until 1906 and was the bookworm type who was heavy accessories clothing Today of its all food like able to come to a new country and work his way up to course freezedried Lasagna Chicken become the foreman of The New York Times However its and Rice Beef Stew and more plastic or titanium and wear cotton isnt an intriguing thought that they might have known one accessories you never never There natural fiber the in another in the old country and it adds a little romance to a anywhere near my body except wool and thats my 46er ascent However Rocky Peak Ridge has an my socks even a blend

of its from the site of some interesting history own being continued on next page of the fiercest fires of the 1913 forest fire requiring well over 25 years to begin developing new timber and undergrowth to being the burial site for the ashes of Marie Louise Wickes the daughter of Thomas P Wickes who among other things contracted to have the current trail from Giant to Rocky Peak Ridge cut back in 1905 So there I was standing at the Chapel Pond trailhead with my 46er peak team This included my good friend Rob Reynolds who has now accompanied me on all but five of the 46 peaks his two brothers Randall and Richard and relative newcomer to the Dacks Bill Hauck Rob and I go way backseveral decades in fact You know youre getting old when you think in decades Rob is admittedly more of the true grit type This is a guy who fights fires for a living in The Bronx races cars as in Lime Rock a real race track skis downhill competitively and is in general a real softy Additionally while he does have a minimalist view of life ie preferring instant coffee to brewed to my friendscredit he does focus on the objective at handand God help anyone who dillydallies Some might perceive his constant encouragement as nagging or Jay Gross does some bouldering on the summit o Colden 11 page 26

Evolution

continued from page li We ascended Marcy the next day with little effort having a great experience including an unobstructed view of the Adirondack High Peaks After all we were standing on the highest peak in the Adirondacks looking down at what seemed like the rest of the world and almost eye level with the scenic plane passengers as they passed slightly overhead We pledged to come back again soon Jobs and lives saw that promise broken until a chance dinner and a Yeah lets do it over a couple of drinks

Unlike our first trip I figured Id do some reading learn some things about woodsmanship and get some decent gear before I ventured out into the wilderness After all I was now an adult and I should know better Well I learned enough to know what to buy and bought it all As Rob is fond of saying Jay likes his local camping boutique Our Jay heads toward Gothics after a successful summit o Saddlebaclc first trip back to the Dacks was in May of 1996 I had a brand new Mountainsmith pack overweight unbalanced and We finally reached the summit after postholing through poorly adjusted new Asolo boots that were too light for the some snow up to our knees and I was so glad to get that weight I carried which included solid wood snowshoes I pack off my back I thought the summit was the most now have aluminum crampons for ice work and a ton of beautiful thing I had ever seen I had forgotten what an high tech clothes I never used We set up camp at the Slide Adirondack summit view was like Most people think youve Brook leanto and went off to do Macomb Rob never told got to go to Europe or at least out West to see great expanses me about the slide or for that matter what a slide was So of dramatic mountain rangesmountains with sharp imagine my joy at seeing this mountain of loose gravel that dramatic geological features and steep profiles But there goes for a slide on Macomb But it turned out OK until about they were right in front of me and I couldntbelieve it half Rob was about front and me way up 20 feet in above Carpets of evergreens maples and birches softening the with his pack lying on a boulder thumbing through the transition from valley to slope ending in a ring around the McMartin book Barbara McMartin wrote a book about her summits as though preparing them for a crown Long granite climbs in the Adirondacks that describes each trail in such slabs running from top to bottom like some sort of scar and detail that just about every hiker owns a copy and wouldntsummits some bald and some not but all seeming to reach dare be caught doing a bushwhack without having read out to dare the clouds passage It was breathtaking How through it or brought it along could I have forgotten Hey Jay I think we shouldye kept going along the After a reasonable rest we headed down had a fine stream I think were on the wrong slide said Rob freezedried dinner ugh and topped it off with Port wine Whaddya nean This is going up Going up is good and cigars No reason not to be civilized right I replied With an exasperated doIhavetoteachthisguy everything look on his face Rob said Its not just up thats important Imnot sure if this slide will lead us to the top While twoandahalfyears isntall that long in the or just end in cripple bush The book says we shouldve scheme of things it does give you time to think and I guess taken the second slide We exchanged a few looks and I everything in life comes down to a series of connected eventually agreed Not that I had much choice in the matter events like dominos For example if my father and Uncle After all this was my first trip back in 18 years and Rob had Bill werentsuch good hustlers they never would have been already summited 15 peaks Anyway ima forgiving guy able to parlay a couple of New York City dry cleaning stores Heck anyone can make a mistake Then an hour after into a Catskill Resort Hotel called the New Prospect in bushwhacking through dense undergrowth on the stream bed Mountaindale If they didntget the New Prospect I never after not gaining much ground we decided to go back and would have fallen in love with the mountains They do the first slide anyway Now Im getting cranky Did I themselves were introduced to the Catskills by their Uncle mention that this was a loose gravel slide that were about Brody who had a summer place called Hotel Brody also in to do for the second time with 30lb packs You know two Mountaindale where they worked as waiters when they were steps up one slide back Oh Wait a second Is that why kids back in the late 30s However the hotel business didnt it a Now I it they call slide get continued on 12 A Climb in the Adirondacks

by Vernon Sanders 1651

Editors Note The following article appeared in the April supplied here and there As a result it is not necessary to 1974 issue of The CCB Outlook the official publication of endure the rigors of actually climbing a mountain in order The Canadian Council of the Blind We reprint it here to enjoy hiking and camping in the Adirondacks accompanied by the pen and ink sketches of Trudy Healy in Not all of the mountains have marked trails The trailless memory of her artistic contributions to the FortySixers and peaks of the 46 are conquered by knowing up from down her intrepid hiking spirit and by either bushwhacking or by luckily finding a herd trail established by bushwhackers who have travelled that Directly north of teeming New York City directly south way before of teeming Montreal directly east of teeming Toronto is a Much could be written on tricks of the trek but that is roughcast protuberance on the surface of New York State not the purpose of this article Suffice it for now to tell you known as the Adirondack Mountains The name suggests why my buddies and I prefer the first weekend in October an unfriendly region for it comes from the Indian word for for our mountain safari It is generally neither unbearably barkeater referring to times when the local Indians were hot nor unbearably cold not buggy not wet and not peopled reduced to eating bark to survive Today it is an attraction Although the days are short and the nights can be cold the for thousands of tourists campers and hikers and I think colors of the changing leaves of the deciduous trees blending would only be unfriendly to the unwise with the greens and blues of the evergreens present a vista This quiet place arose out of altercations between two of beauty possible only about this time of year drifting continental plates millions of years ago It was Owing to exigencies of life it has not been possible for subsequently reshaped and supplied with water and soil by all of our group to go on every annual hike This time it was a series of glaciers the last one having receded only about found that there would be six of us going and that two of us 20000 years ago No hiker familiar with these mountains planned to go up a day early to catch two mountains at would question how its lakes and streams are replenished the east edge of the park peaks called Giant and Rocky And yet the precipitation that we find at times quite Ridge To the early settlers of Pleasant Valley nearby the frustrating is the very essence of the regions wild and former was known as Giant of the Valley From Giant beautiful scenery its sparkling lakes rushing streams of we were told one could view the whole stretch of the undefiled water splashing rapids crashing waterfalls dense Adirondacks on the one hand and on the other hand across forests and purpletinted peaks Several of its streams feed the valley of Lakes Champlain and George the whole stretch the mighty Hudson River which for decades has been the of the Green Mountains of Vermont We wondered about settling tank for the waste and refuse ofa modern industrial that however when we awoke Thursday morning and valley looked out the windows of the station wagon which along From a height of about 1500 feet above sea level in a with a roadside park had been our motel for the night It roughly circular area 125 miles in diameter rocky teeth rise wasntraining but the relative humidity was 100 Nothing into the clouds The highest of these is called Mount Marcy for it though but to whip up a little breakfast in the park boasting an altitude of 5344 feet Setting down certain and get on with the plan criteria to define a mountain peak climbers listed 46 peaks Only a few miles up the road near a beautiful little lake as being above the 4000 foot mark and anyone who climbs called Chapel Pond we find the entrance to a trail up Giant them all can join the 46ers Mountain one of the red trails of the Adirondacks No Much ofthe area is now a New York State Park actually signin book here Were on our own There is a little stream a forest preserve where anyone can go free of charge The here but pretty dry We guess it hasntrained in the last few hiker voluntarily signs the register at the beginning of the days The fog we arose in has lifted and the clouds are trail if there is one and always brings out any garbage that breaking so all looks promising We pack our knapsack with cannot be reduced to ashes Marked wellkept trails lunch water cameras and rain gear and start off guided by crisscross the highmountain area some going over the red metal markers on the trees mountain peaks and rugged shelters called leantos are continued on next page 13 A climb in the Adirondacks

Well it looks like the mountain is going to give us a hard time taxing our muscles and lungs so early in the climb but soon we find ourselves on a wide gentle path through a large stand of those chalky pillars of the forest reluctantly shedding their tired plunage We kick up the yellow leafy mat with a slish slish slish 1ish and the whole area round about is a diffuse yellow glow from the sunshine trying to We settle down in a little shelter of take out our push down the leaves remaining above us A faint earthy rock lunch of our for about half of our hike fragrance is all around The cheep of the chickadee looking instead cameras for is over and our The for a handout and the chatter of the chipmunk are heard here today timewise study maps again trail off that to Mountain We know and there and we forget about civilization until we are jarred goes way Rocky Ridge we must down and and back all in the by the muffled roar of a truck on the highway below or a jet go up again probably and our enthusiasm wanes Still we can the in the heavens above This is a restful section and gives one clouds enjoy of the trail some of the worst mud time to enjoy the solitude but we know we cantrise fast peculiarities Strangely holes are the on bare on a so we we on mountain tops and rock gentle slope arentsurprised when come upon seemingly areas of moss thick as a mattress and a little stream and the path begins to ascend along its bank large grow very comfortable Because it hasntrained recently the trail is not as wet as it we and now were on might be but for the same reason we are denied the sounds Eventually conquer Rocky Ridge our back down Giant of running water All the same we have to be alertrocks way slipping grabbing jumping We find that in we use different sets dry rocks and slippery rocks mud and mud holes Grab that swinging descending of muscles all over the and the react tree Oh oh Spruce gum on my paw and needles down my body joints differently Just ask knees Even the head sometimes to the neck I must have grabbed the wrong tree Theres another my objects it We shake the trees and it hasnt Thats betterworn smooth by the many before me jarring gets although been water down on us water that was Eventually we reach a little lake the map calls the Giants raining sprinkles rubbed the clouds as Washbowl and we rest off they passed by Part the cloud cover the air on way down breaks clears Up down the level this way that way and all and the sun beams down its warmth as if to make We combinations On one gentle section we are resting by up dont we come out on an overlook and walking slowly and quietly when suddenly whdrdrdr a argue Suddenly survey the way we came in the morning We behold the partridge flushes from the path in front of us We pause Washbowl nestled on a about down to momentarily and are startled anew when three more of the ledge halfway Chapel which also in view We take time to sun Pond is plain record creatures take off The goes into hiding and the air the use our cameras and color arms are scene finally making of grows damp I ask myself if my bare wet from good film We see the hues on the lower and middle levels of the perspiration or from condensation The trees get shorter and mountain are birches now are a contributed and maples mostly evergreens Only little farther up and they nostly by balsam and near the am hemlock cedar dominate are spruce and pine and only head high I immersed in Spruce pine of the mountain and lend their steadfast the wonderful scent perfuming the still moist air and I know peak green support at the lower levels why I am here We take a few more on the down and when Now the trees are gone and we find we are actually in pictures way we to the over and soak our feet in the cool the clouds We look over a rocky ledge and follow the shear get bottom go water of Pond That feels And no side of the mountain top as it fades into the clouds rolling Chapel really good blisters a so we as we What blessing up and over A high wind now stay in the lea We drive up the road to the community of Keene grapple for the very top and search for the brass marker Valley and take a side road to the west in a area There it is And here we are 4627 feet above sea level and ending parking known as The 400 feet above Keene There cantsee more than a hundred feet let alone the Green Garden Valley a nice little in the woods with as is stream back enough water Mountains of Vermont Might well get down out of this wind running in it for washing up and cooking We have our supper and now its quite dark although only eight oclock So we bed down in the wagon and look out at the clear sky and speculate about the hike tomorrow when we will be going in for three nights with four other guys and plenty heavy packs But that will have to be another story Before yielding to the call to rest in earnest I gaze into the firmament and think about the beautiful clear air transmitting the radiance of the stars and moon and I dwell on the quietness of the mountains and I know why I am here 14 Lukes Winter Climb by David Graves

This is about how my tenyearold son Luke Graves climbed Cascade in the winter Its also about how I finished the 46 in winter but its much more about Luke It all started in 1991 Luke first climbed Cascade when he was twoandonehalf He was on my back then that first time I climbed it He was a healthy laughing toddler then He climbed Cascade himself a year later Things were a lot different then Luke was diagnosed with brain cancer a year ago April 1999 The operation left him with double vision and coordination problems with his left arm and leg One item of interest is something I found out at a recent consultation with the neurosurgeon Dr John Waldman who performed Lukes surgery He became a 46er last year 1999 44631 by climbing almost all 46 in one year We all got ready to climb on February 27 2000 It was a a blue and beautiful day with sky light winds temperatures From left Dan Graves Bob Zayhowski Veronica Luke and in the 50s Luke and 1 were with wife Veronica hiking my David Graves pose atop Cascade Davids winter 46th son Dan age 12 and hiking partner Bob Zayhowski Bob and I back to the around two told Luke that it meant a lot to me for him to just try Well got junction hours after we left them and no one was there I told Bob and climb up Cascade to see me finish I gave him a big hug and told him it would be incredible if he could make it to that wed take a break for five minutes and then probably down and see if we out what was on I the top but Id always love him no matter what The great go could find going that if Luke turned at least Dan thing was that Luke truly wanted to give this a try was hoping back would come to tell us We all wore snowshoes mostly for traction except for up Id a lot about what it would like to have Luke I put instep crampons on him for traction because I thought feel Luke there when I finished I can tell I would have was afraid his coordination problems might make snowshoes you climbed them all for the CHANCE that he could a problem We brought a pair of snowshoes for him just in again just be there time Id even about the that case Every think possibility he be there Id almost break down This climb wasntpretty for Luke It was quite a could and cry Now I sat at the trail where struggle From the beginning to the end those post holes junction wondering they were We were there a minute or two when I I people make were killing him He kept falling and falling only thought heard wifes voice I called out and called back A into them but somehow he kept getting up He must have my they minute or later Luke shot out of the and came fallen at least a hundred times during the hike After a short so woods up to me Illnever how that felt while I really wanted him to quit but we kept letting him go forget good hug The climb from the to the of Cascade is a little further We took his pack and what little he had from junction top him and that seemed to help nothingmostly flat and then a bit of rock It was good to finish the in so much better to have I stayed with him for an hour I still had to do Porter 46 winter but it was Luke there It was to have the rest the too so Bob and I shot ahead so we could climb it before in really nice of family and Bob too case Luke climbed Cascade I had asked my son Dan who there for but he to do for 12 is quite big and strong to try and help Luke as much This was quite a struggle Luke wanted it The is he beat us all down Both Bob and I as he could funny thing had to to I tried the snowshoes him at I wasntthere but my wife said it took quite a bit of hurry keep up on first to out holes but that didnt trial and coaxing to get Luke up They went to a system of try and even the post work well 100 steps then a rest to catch their breath My wife said that Both wife and I felt that somehow some of at times she was grateful for the rests too my this put the trauma of Lukes cancer us It us that Meanwhile Bob and I popped over to Porter and headed behind gave hope back to the trail junction for Cascade Most of the time I we may see some glimpses of being normal Hiking has and be a of lives was dreading getting back to the junction and them not being always will big part our there I didntknow what weddo if they werentthere I Who knows Luke climbed 20 high peaks before the cancer came somehow hellfinish the other 26 We wanted so much for my family to be there when I finished Maybe with a lot of unknowns in our lives Luke still has They made the climb on October II 1997 when I completed are left some cancer The Lord me finish the regular 46 on Rocky Peak Ridge We hiked from 9N left after the surgery helped these in the and He will and threw in Giant because they needed it Many of you mountains winter maybe heal Luke the hike went to a hotel a and hot know this is quite a hike It meant a lot then and would mean After we with pool tub that even more now That felt good night 15 Winter desk continued from page 8 Schwankert Brian Packard Tim and Maureen Laskey Jim Schneider Jim Schaad Sue Hoffer Jean Holcomb Jayne Bouder I would also have liked it if Susan could have joined me Shes been very tolerant of my mountain madness In the end though perhaps my single best companion was here with me after all Thatsher over there begging food from Matt Clark Eutaw always wants to go and never complains about the weather or the long drive or the lack of a view She does whine about ladders though Jim McHugh of Plaistow New Hampshire simultaneously finished the Dave Marcy takes a cairntop seat on Skylight his 46th on 7 1999 Adirondack 46 the Winter 46 the peak February Northeast 111 and the Northeast 111 short time I rounded the last corner to call for help which came the next in winter with his fivepeak climb on and saw groups of people standing on morning While Marian downplays the weekend of March 17th and 18th the summit My brother was the first her injuries they were extensive From It seems that the to the trouble people were reach summit and in the few my discussion with her she had encountering early in the winter on minutes it took me to reach the top he multiple fractures involving the pelvis Redfield and Cliff were buried with whipped out a small flag with numbers ribs and collarbone Although her snow this late in winter for Jim writes 111 placed on it What a surprise memory fades in and out about that The we into Marian last weekend backpacked Zimmerman of Albany night as is normal with someone in Lake Colden area from Works embodies the human to two Upper spirit complete pain the hikers gave up a sleeping to bag the remaining five peaks We a goal no matter what hardships are bag and kept giving her liquids all to hike on to us an She on Dix decided Friday give encountered finished and night The next morning a helicopter extra day if we needed it we had heard later did Hough because others needed lifted her out ofthe col she remembers about the blowdown on Cliff We flew that as well She was accompanied by the pain of being in the sling going up on the hard snow it a number of her packed Although supporters and fans into the helicopter Whichever way snowed 23 inches the snow was Back on 2997 she fell on an icy you want to look at it luck or Gods powdery and we easily broke trail the stretch coming down from Colden and care the two hikers being there with entire We cut across Flowed Lands tore tendons and in to trip muscles ligaments equipment stay the night was very and ascended Cliff stream from her left ankle via the It was a long slow trip fortunate for Marian With this as a the NW We walked the to and a on blowdown back Tahawas premature backdrop it was amazing to me to see down below and hit the that winter On easily peak ending season February Marian back this following year circling around the SW We then went 20 1999 she was severely injured completing 15 peaks to finish the up to Uphill LT and set up camp before climbing Saddleback Her words about Winter 46 we headed out for Redfield Using the the trip were We arrived at the steep On the following day March 19th traditional brook route was good as it rocky outcrop of Saddleback at about three hikers climbed their 46th winter was basically free of trees or they were 320 pm as two hikers were peak The first two were the husband buried By the time we found the descending Because of a thin skim of wife team of Donna and Stewart Jerdo summit in midafternoon the sky ice and snow cover we decided to try from Moriah and they tell a tale that is cleared and we had great views towards to work our way east along the edge of typical about easing in to this winter the south and Allen A cold morning the rocks and vegetation Eventually thing Here are a few excerpts from greeted us as we headed up to Four we came to a place about 1520 feet Donnas report about their beginnings Corners We ascended Gray using the below the summit that was impassable 123194Tabletop and Phelps I herd below but lost it and At this doubled back and path up high point we remember very little of the Tabletop climbed through the thick stuff to the picked up the regular trail on the rocks hike however I do recall that not being clear summit The day was perfect A short way up Bob prevailed upon me properly equipped was not a wise thing to the as was Marcy and Skylight beckoned Quickly give up quest and I There was snow that when we post topping Skylight we were ready to turning around I slipped and fell My holed it was up to our knees My climb our last peak I felt pretty tired fall brought the trip and the season to brother decided that we should do starting up Marcy and the climb did a premature end Bob took me to the Phelps Being pretty new at this winter look daunting but I plodded along and hikers we had met earlier Maciej and experience I can remember like it was soon found myself above treeline in a Arek for safe keeping and hiked out continued on page 24 16 Avalanche on Wright Peak by Tony Goodwin

Saturday February 19 was a perfect day for skiing in skied from the top of the right slide all the way across to the Adirondacks The weather had been consistently cold the skier s right side of the large slide He then descended for the previous six weeks a storm the previous Monday with tight turns near the edgeby all accounts whooping had produced 1824 of new snow in the mountains and and hollering at what he termed one of his best runs ever another storm had dropped an additional six inches the night Roy then climbed back up for another run but realizing that before Unfortunately these were also the exact all of the others except Ford were climbing up to try the big combination of conditions required to cause the slide he waited since he had already had his chance to carve Adirondacks first fatal avalanche and in a mere ten seconds up the new snow Ron Konowitz was first down skiing just the entire aura of Adirondack slide skiing changed forever outside of Roys tracks He stopped about onethird of the The avalanche occurred on one of the pair of new slides way down to watch the others Next was Lauren who skied on the northeast shoulder of Wright caused by the heavy next to husband Ronstracks and then Cook whose ski came rains associated with Hurricane Floyd last September off just before he reached the Konowitzes The time was Prominently visible from Marcy Dam the 400yard long pair now 1 PM and as Cook floundered in the deep snow to consisted of a narrow 25 yards slide on the right and a retrieve his ski and fix his binding Vracarich started down much wider 100 yards one on the left Because these slides nearly in the center of the slide About 25 feet above Cook were so accessible many area skiers had inspected them Vracarich fell at which point the others heard a low shortly after they came down and the general analysis was whumpf or as Cook described it the feeling of a tire that the narrow slide was much smoother and therefore deflating Looking up Konowitz saw the fracture line would likely be the best skiing in an average winter Indeed develop and then in a mere second or so a rippling mass of skiers had been regularly skiing the narrow slide since late snow engulfed them January even as the wider slide still exhibited bulges of ice The slide happened so fast that Ford standing at the and exposed rock After the February 14 storm however top of the small slide with her back turned missed both slides had sufficient cover for skiingespecially with everything but the huge plume of snow thrown up by the the added snow on February 18 estimated hundred mile an hour wind produced by the slide The six skiers who ended up on these slides that Roy however standing just above the fracture line watched Saturday were actually two separate groups of nearly equally in horror as the snow swept the other four awayinitially experienced skiers Ron Konowitz 45 and his wife Lauren burying all four Then a secondary slough of snow a few Konowitz 29 of seconds later Keene had agreed pushed Ron to meet Chrissy Konowitz and Ford 31 of Lake Cook a bit Placid and Rohan farther down Roy 23 of the slope and Chateauguay at the uncovered Loj and then decide them to the where they might ski Dean Russ Cook 26 of Saranac point where they could ultimately dig themselves out Lake had independently contacted Toma J Vracarich 27 Quickly skiing down the edge of the slide Roy checked on of Newport Pennsylvania who had moved to Lake Placid the condition of Cook and Konowitz and then immediately just over a year ago to work for the Adirondack Economic began searching for the other two Hearing a muffled cry Development Corporation All six had extensive experience Roy saw a hat on top of the snow which turned out to be skiing steep backcountry terrain including other slides All tied to Lauren Konowitzs head He dug her head out so decided to head for the new slides on Wright Peak although that she could breathe and then began looking for Vracarich Ron Konowitz thought he and his wife would probably go Ford a registered nurse then skied down and initially ski a stream bed somewhere in the afternoon after they assessed Cooks condition before turning her attention to had made tracks in the fresh powder on the narrow slide Lauren Roy having failed to find Vracarich in his initial that they had skied before search headed down for help Heading up ahead of the others in hopes of getting the Numerous skiers at Marcy Dam witnessed the slide and first tracks Lauren Konowitz arrived at the base of the slide heard the calls for help One skier used a cell phone to place about 1030 AM and had taken one run before joining the a call for help which was relayed to Forest Rangers Jim others for another After his first run on the narrow slide Giglinto and Gary Hodgson who were in Avalanche Pass decided around 12 noon to the left slide a and Roy give try continued on page 20 17 Why Do We Climb the 46 by Tom Davidheiser a 36er

Admiration to honor those who climbed before

D elite to enjoy the experience

Initiative to make and carry out a plan the Woods I Take Off My Hat Thomas Hunt 44635 Resilience to flex but not break with all the ups and by downs

For you have captured my heart O utdoorsmanship to develop and utilize skills in and backpacking orienteering Try and find me among the pines within the streams that feed your roots N ever say die to complete and not quit the goal

Those leaves lying damp upon the ground with their Devotion to carry out the plan over a period of time last bit of color that gave them their glory begin to fade into the earth which them their Amity to share the experience with friends while gave beginning climbing now and reminiscing later On a misty morning a garden of ferns seems to dance as Challenge to attain the thrill of it all through the droplets of rain fall upon their bright green leaves making a difficulties cloudy day hike a rewarding one

to observe and understand the natural world Knowledge The reflection in a pond seems to take your breath away with the sun so low a bright blue sky and colorful leaves Satisfaction to have a well chosen completed goal and you wonder or wish Can I step into this dream that falls upon the waters edge That s why

Sit upon a tree stump and enjoy your lunch Perhaps a critter will come out from under the root or fly down to a nearby branch The silence you have found and company too will always be within you

A blanket of snow covers those dwarfed trees as Johns Brook you Valley Lullaby near the summit yet they seem to come alive as the shadow by Marcy Esler 4637 of the clouds pass by them making them dance to your heartbeat and the beauty of the day engulfs you They rock Me Each hike in the Adirondack Mountains has given me many views not just of the mountains or the fields and There there there streams that run through them but of myself and what I have in me to give to others By day I am tossed to the clouds I cannot contain my delight So Or my terror I take off my hat to the Adirondack Mountains By night I wriggle into close places And wait Until I am cradled between dark distant forms From whose massive shoulders I viewed the world And whose wisdom is beyond me

Rock me

There there there 18 Class of 1999 New 46er Finishers

NO LAST FIRST CITY STATE 46 PEAK DATE TIME NAME NAME 8 Parker Reginald Baldwinsville NY Sawteeth 81494 300PM 9 Sabatine Charlie Victor NY Cliff 81996 115900PM 4450 Sabatme Sara Victor NY Cliff 81996 115900PM 4451 Taylor Patrick Bethesda MD Big Slide 8997 123600PM 4452 Wuillermin John Plattsburgh NY Allen 10497 115500AM 4453 Weinstein Daniel Burlington VT Rocky Peak 52598 200PM 4454 Korb Tern Malta NY Seymour 62198 112000AM 4455 Riley Brian Moorestown NJ Armstrong 72198 100PM 4456 Hatfield Harold Clifton Park NY Allen 8I98 123000PM 4457 Swan Meaghan Eaten OH Algonquin 8498 24400PM 4458 Cook Joshua Clay NY Colden 81698 112800AM 4459 Jordan Rik Corinth NY Emmons 9198 600PM 4460 Reilly John Newburgh NY Emmons 9598 200PM 4461 Thomas Shirley Webster NY Allen 10398 115800AM 4462 Thomas Jackson Webster NY Allen 10398 115800AM 4463 Strohmeyer Judith Olmstedville NY Whiteface 10398 15100PM 4464 Strohmeyer James Olmstedville NY Whiteface 10398 15300PM 4465 Pfaffenbach Becky Scotia NY Haystack 10498 111700AM 4466 Pfaffenbach Jenny Scotia NY Haystack 10498 111700AM 4467 Samel Steve Prospect NY Haystack 101798 1200PM 4468 Copeland Nancy Long Lake NY Allen 11798 11000PM 4469 Bave Jacqueline Saratoga Springs NY Tabletop 12399 125000PM 4470 Clement Derek Johnson City NY Iroquois 13099 121500PM 4471 Moppert Evan Cambridge NY Colden 2799 125000PM 4472 Moppert Ross Cambridge NY Colden 2799 125100PM 4473 Moppert Jerry Cambridge NY Colden 2799 125200PM 4474 Howard Peter Troy NY Marshall 22899 300PM 4475 Vengrin George Red Hook NY Seymour 31099 21000PM 4476 Rosenthal Jadwiga Waterford CT Seward 31399 125000PM 4477 Smith David Baldwinsville NY Sawteeth 31999 600PM 4478 White Nina CliftonPark NY Phelps 32099 200PM 4479 McLaughlin Jim Waworth NY Cascade 5199 103000AM 4480 Deluca Jason Schenectady NY Marcy 5899 93000AM 4481 Speer John Newark DE Street 51899 100PM 4482 Reister Christine Utica NY Basin 52199 31000PM 4483 McCahill Kate Lake Placid NY Rocky Peak 52299 1200PM 4484 Case Scott Whitney Point NY Allen 52299 123000PM 4485 OlearyLaskey Maureen Saratoga Springs NY Allen 52299 100PM 4486 Virostek Sue Plattsburgh NY Whiteface 52399 21500PM 4487 Yaris Edward Lockport NY Gray 52399 23000PM 4488 Wang Hsin Staten Island NY Big Slide 52499 91500AM 4489 Burnham Ray Ottawa CAN Tabletop 53199 300PM 4490 Mazdzer Chris Peru NY Haystack 61299 30900PM 4491 Mazdzer Ed Peru NY Haystack 61299 31000PM 4492 Heins Robert Plattsburgh NY Phelps 61999 13000PM 4493 Babin Dennis Schenectady NY Marcy 61999 14500PM 4494 Livsey Melissa Austin TX East Dix 62499 50700PM 4495 Harty Steven Nassau NY Emmons 62699 13000PM 4496 Covey James Schenectady NY Allen 62899 33000PM 4497 Wilmot Tim Underhill VT Santanoni 7599 123000PM 4498 Berman Gary Mansfield CT Whiteface 71099 13400PM 4499 Case John Chenango Forks NY Gray 71199 114500AM 4500 Bronston David New York NY Allen 71199 120800PM 4501 Cox William Fort Edward NY Phelps 71399 103000AM 4502 Hammond Erin Willsboro NY Big Slide 71499 31446PM 4503 Quayle Laura Lake Placid NY Phelps 71699 113000AM 4504 Wescott Philip Riparius NY Big Slide 71799 1100AM 4505 Sonnebom Paul Syracuse NY Allen 71799 121500PM 4506 Sergott Raymond Liverpool NY Seymour 71899 92900AM 4507 Sergott Michael Amherst NY Seymour 71899 93000AM 4508 Buzzelli Robert Syracuse NY Cliff 71899 1200PM 4509 Durlacher Kate Sudbury MA Giant 71899 11400PM 4510 Riley Donald Spencerport NY Allen 71999 100PM 4511 Tam David Honolulu HI Emmons 72099 200PM 4512 Parker Carol Alexandria VA Rocky Peak 72399 124500PM 4513 Jennings John South Glens Falls NY Haystack 72599 113000AM 4514 Blakeslee Coleman Baltimore MD Iroquois 72599 114200AM 4515 Wion Frederique Montreal CAN Blake 72799 121500PM 4516 Ladanowski Nick Montreal CAN Basin 72899 123500PM 4517 Schaf Theresa Montreal CAN Basin 72899 123500PM 4518 Dedrick Daniel Staatsburg NY Colden 72899 115900PM 4519 Diamond Ross Maplewood NJ Seymour 73099 1100AM 4520 Herman Aaron Arlington VA Santanoni 73099 200PM 4521 Austin Ken South Burlington VT Santanoni 73199 11000PM 4522 Worden Michael Clifton Park NY Haystack 73199 200PM 4523 Kennedy Janice Peru NY Rocky Peak 8299 112000AM 4524 Kennedy Joanne Plattsburgh NY Rocky Peak 8299 112000AM 4525 Ryan Jean Peru NY Rocky Peak 8299 112000AM 4526 Tuller Luvie Essex NY Rocky Peak 8299 112000AM 4527 Matson Andrew Coventry RI Seymour 8499 800AM 4528 Trent Adam North Charleston SC Allen 8499 115000AM 4529 Chase Jeff Newington CT Whiteface 8599 200PM 4530 Picard Patrick New York NY Whiteface 8599 300PM 4531 Ray Isaac Menands NY Whiteface 8699 100PM 4532 Soloski William Plattsburgh NY Allen 8799 105800AM 4533 Baker Michael Ballston Spa NY Emmons 8799 120500PM 4534 Frank Ben Brooklyn NY Seymour 899 115900PM 4535 Cresci Kyle Brooklyn NY Phelps 8999 123000PM 4536 Ryba Rebecca Bennington VT Skylight 8999 10900PM 4537 Traver John Troy NY Gray 81099 100PM 4538 Moynihan John Burnt Hills NY Skylight 81299 120500PM 4539 Smith Colin Schenectady NY Skylight 81299 120500PM 4540 Mudar Paul Troy NY Skylight 81299 121000PM 4541 Home Keith Addison NY Allen 81399 122000PM 4542 Wilcox Andrew Ancramdale NY Iroquois 81399 100PM 4543 Bischoping Stanley Williamson NY Donaldson 81399 13000PM 4544 Hutchins John New Canaan CT Esther 81499 123000PM 4545 Jenks Doug Central Square NY Dix 82099 113700AM 4546 Brown Dana Kent OH Couchsachraga 82099 100PM 4547 Melton Rick Brackney PA Cascade 82099 200PM 4548 Gaffney Dick Schenectady NY Skylight 82199 95800AM 4549 Hoar Samuel S Burlington VT Santanoni 82199 100200AM 4550 Rancier Daniel Clay NY Emmons 82199 115900PM 4551 Neissen Ronald Troy NY Seymour 82299 122000PM 4552 Dennett Bert Burke VA Santanoni 82399 1200PM 4553 Geer Maureen Menands NY Alien 82399 122000PM 4554 Correll Douglas Johnstown NY Seymour 82699 1200PM 4555 Wang Amanda Rexford NY Rocky Peak 82699 115900PM 4556 Hutchins Benjamin Stowe VT Rocky Peak 82799 11000PM 4557 Hutchins Heather Stowe VT Rocky Peak 82799 11000PM 4558 Thomas George Fairport NY Whiteface 82899 113000AM 4559 Kelpin Gary Fairport NY Whiteface 82899 113500AM 4560 Smalley Jane Briarcliff Man NY Wright 82899 100PM 4561 Baker Randy Ellenburg Depot NY Donaldson 82899 200PM 4562 Purtell Thomas Clarks Summit PA Blake 82899 200PM 4563 Opperman Bill Bloomfield NY Allen 82999 85500AM 4564 Lennon Michael Tunkhannock PA Big Slide 82999 113000AM 4565 Dunn Michael Nashua NH Colden 82999 12000PM 4566 Slattery Edward Berlin NY Sawteeth 83099 1100AM 4567 Ferrino George Katonah NY Marshall 83099 13000PM 4568 Macek John Poughkeepsie NY Marshall 9199 122300PM 4569 Quinn Mary Waterford NY Big Slide 9299 300PM 4570 Ring Robert Martinsville NJ Seymour 9499 102900AM 4571 Perkins Jeffrey Tully NY Marcy 9499 100PM 4572 Perkins Lucas Tully NY Marcy 9499 100PM 4573 Barth Richard Hanover NH Sawteeth 9499 13000PM 4574 Yarsevich Chris Clifton Park NY Haystack 9499 35100PM 4575 Shonn Mary Jane Akron NY Panther 9499 41400PM 4576 Shonn Daniel Akron NY Panther 9499 41500PM 4577 Can Cynthia Syracuse NY Marshall 9599 1200PM 4578 Cart Dan Syracuse NY Marshall 9599 1200PM 4579 Cirre Dick Bagdad KY Haystack 9799 21000PM 4580 Davison Morris Chelsea Qc CAN Rocky Peak 999 1200PM 4581 Decker Charles Wynantskill Ny Basin 999 100PM 4582 Robbins Justin Plattsburgh NY Gray 91199 101500AM 4583 Svendsen Edward West Chazy NY Haystack 91299 113000AM 4584 Svendsen Erl West Chazy NY Haystack 91299 113000AM 4585 Hanchette David Corte Madera CA Allen 91299 125000PM 4586 Marquis Ron Berlin NH Marcy 91299 I00PM 4587 Mackey Heather Glens Falls NY Haystack 91299 21000PM 4588 Evans Robert Glens Falls NY Panther 91299 25900PM 4589 Wright Robert Averill Park NY Hough 91299 300PM 4590 McMahon Thomas Troy NY Hough 91299 31000PM 4591 Sedlack Janet Syracuse NY Iroquois 91899 1200PM 4592 Ohanesian Derek Saratoga Springs NY Colden 91899 123000PM 4593 Spilker Janis Loudonville NY Whiteface 91899 13000PM 4594 Spilker Robert Loudonville NY Whiteface 91899 13000PM 4595 Kreiley Herman Dansville NY Phelps 91999 15000PM 4596 Baker Dean Saranac Lake NY Marcy 91999 41700PM 4597 Higley Michael Boiceville NY Haystack 92099 23000PM 4598 Warnes Carsten Boiceville NY Haystack 92099 23000PM 4599 Peterson Eric Naperville IL Giant 92399 300PM 4600 Noms Linda Westhampton MA Emmons 92499 122700PM 4601 Norris Charles Westhampton MA Emmons 92499 122800PM 4602 Brault David Plattsburgh NY Colden 92499 54600PM 4603 Denchick Frank Peru NY Colden 92499 54600PM 4604 Gervais Joseph Castleton NY Sawteeth 92599 1100AM 4605 Gervais Paul Endicott NY Sawteeth 92599 1100AM 4606 Carlson David Atlanta GA Saddleback 92599 300PM 4607 Seward Phil Guilderland NY Rocky Peak 92599 33000PM 4608 Snyder Curt Morrisonville NY Marshall 92699 124500PM 4609 Kaschak Theresa Cropseyville NY Colden 10299 105000AM 4610 McCahill David Lake Placid NY Haystack 10299 114900AM 4611 Carter Gerald Warrensburg NY Blake 10299 200PM 4612 Carter Neil Warrensburg NY Blake 10299 200PM 4613 Redmer Alan Westport CT Couchsachraga 10899 123000PM 4614 Terenzetti Michael Sherrill NY Marcy 10999 400PM 4615 Laundrie BeVy Plattsburgh NY Haystack 1099 1200PM 4616 Laundrie Catherine Plattsburgh NY Haystack 10I099 1200PM 4617 Fountain Phil Waterford NY Saddleback 101299 23000PM 4618 Gagnie Michael Morrisonville NY Marshall 101599 34000PM 4619 Flynn Nancy Cropseyville NY Couchsachraga 101699 13000PM 4620 Flynn William Cropseyville NY Couchsachraga 101699 13000PM 4621 Dietrich David Ballston Spa NY Seward 101699 21500PM 4622 Marchewka Joel Staten Island NY Whiteface 101699 24500PM 4623 Helmes Chris Waterville NY Gray 101699 34000PM 4624 Crammond Richard Stillwater NY Gray 101799 13000PM 4625 Esper Brecken Long Lake NY Cliff 102899 13000PM 4626 Esper Josiah Long Lake NY Cliff 102899 13000PM 4627 Demers Marlo Montreal CAN Whiteface 103099 115900PM 4628 Bowdey Lisa Albany NY Cascade 11699 121000PM 4629 Brightly Carolyn Milan NY Allen 11699 300PM 4630 Reynolds John Kingston NY Allen 11699 115900PM 4631 Waldman John Slingerlands NY Emmons 112799 100PM 4632 Carlson Harry Glens Falls NY Whiteface 12599 111800AM 4633 Loeb Larry Port Chester NY Emmons 122599 123500PM 4634 Delano Dean Morrisonville NY Gray 91199 101500AM 4635 Hunt Thomas Brewster NY Whiteface 100 1200AM 4636 Esler J Grant Rochester NY Blake Peak 1700 1200PM 4637 Esler Marcell Rochester NY Blake Peak 1700 1200PM 4638 Hallock Stephen Cleveland NY Redfield 71997 124500PM The Jagged Gray Line by D E Lohouse

For my friends the Eslers January 7 2000

They are my friends They beckon to me even as I sit by the fire Haystack and Slide Phelps Iroquois Up early its cold out The snow clings to the boughs Sweet sight of white on green Breakfast in my bag My walking friend makes it for me Eyes closed 1 take in the quiet essence of Balsam and Slow the tall birch pine going through A glimpse of sun ahead signals me forward

They are my friends Time to rest Time to record the moment They beckon to me as I dress this cold cold morn Time to check the map that is our lifeline Check the map lost our way yesterday Good walk got lost Cold out cold Made a friend today Tingle Got to move follow close my beast On move at heel the My white clothed hound everfaithful walks We walk We climb Stay close for the trail forks ahead A soft whisper of a breeze moves through

The arms of the trees that Surround us They are my Friends A hint of a voice A of the past They beckon to me as I ascend the trail spirit My trail this trail split often as root upon root grows we climb chilled Seeking sound footing Higher Tired But my friends await Not long now tunnels of white Slow going today Through long pillowed boughs the of Ice ahead Shrinking pines signal end the trail Slow going The summit Hardly Only the cruel view off an outcrop

we toward the line where no trees Cloudy day Quickly now speed Hope it clears grow Our tired not so tired Doesntmatter today legs anymore The spirit of the breeze becomes a fierce wind My path ever higher takes me Stay off the rock it commands so Faster now we run to the top

Elated we top The Summit It is ours and as we embrace in celebration The sun spills through a slice in the clouds The mist slightly rising reveals That long jagged line in the sky

I am with them again Among the giants I know so well With my Two companions we linger for a while For they are my friends they beckon to me 19 A valhe t

continued From page 17 particular slide Also based on their recent attendance at preparing to check the conditions on the Colden slide above avalanche school the forest rangers had just that week the pass Giglinto arrived about 45 minutes after the slide ordered avalanche shovels and probes which had arrived the preceded by Teresa Palen who had arrived at Marcy Dam day before the avalanche about one minute after the slide had occurred Palen helped Giglinto said that despite this incident the DEC has no Cook and Konowitz further excavate Lauren Konowitz while plans to regularly check slides or to issue individual Giglinto assessed whether a helicopter was advisable given assessments of each slides relative danger In future that another slide could be potentially triggered by the winters the DEC will likely monitor snowfall and coptersrotors Within another hour additional volunteers temperature patterns and issue general advisories but it will had arrived including some who were camped in the area remain the responsibility of individual skiers to assess the and who brought stoves to produce hot water bottles to help danger of any given slide on any given day However for keep Lauren warm Also joining the rescuers was Dr Chris the benefit of noncombatant ski tourers in Avalanche Pass Hyson of Lake Placid who was on his way back from a ski there has been consideration of a winter trail just west of up Marcy Hyson helped assess Laurenscondition before the small knob opposite the new Colden slide to avoid that the helicopter arrived at 3 PM with members of the potential danger point although Giglinto reported that test Backcountry Rescue Team from Adirondack Medical Center pits dug on that slide showed that it was never as unstable in Saranac Lake At AMC Lauren was operated on for a as the one that did slide severely broken leg arm and cheek boneinjuries that Since there was no record of any previous major could have been far more severe given that she was quite avalanche in the Adirondacks there appeared to be no reason literally strained through the rock and tree debris field at for this particular group of skiers to have taken the same the bottom of the slide Released from the hospital a week precautions or carried the same equipment such as shovels later she has made a nearly full recovery and avalanche beacons that skiers in other avalanche areas Once all the injured had been evacuated attention turned routinely carry Roy and Cook reportedly had received some to the continuing search for Vracarich Among the avalanche training during trips to the West and Roy cut all volunteers who had arrived by this time was Bob Thomas the way across the top of the slide as a way of making a of Lake Placid with his dog a shepherdhusky mix named rudimentary test of the possibility of the snow actually Winter The searchers initially probed near where Lauren sliding had been found but the search moved to the top of the It has been many years and maybe many more again avalanche fan when a ranger found a pair of skis there since the Adirondacks received so much snow during a six Meanwhile Winter sat watching and occasionally digging week period during which it never went above freezing to in the snow Noticing this behavior Thomas offered a little help consolidate the layers of snow Additionally this slide encouragement which led to some furious digging and a faces to the northeast in a shallow bowl that permitted subsequent probe quickly located Vracarichsbody about enough drifting that the fracture line was five feet high in three feet below the surface Dr Chris Hyson reported that places Add to these factors the slides accessibility an autopsy revealed that Vracarich likely died during or soon leading to numerous skiers making tracks to further loosen after the slide due to massive chest injuries and that even the tenuous bonds holding the snow to the slopeand it was if he had ended up alive and on top of the snow he would in hindsight perhaps inevitable that this would become the not have survived the length of time required for an Adirondacks first such avalanche evacuation In the future it is unlikely that skiers will similarly Most initial media reports gave prominent mention of dismiss the possibility of an avalanche It is also possible the posted warnings of Severe Avalanche Danger but the that it will be many years before the same conditions only posted warning that day was a painted wooden sign reoccur That it took a tragedy such as this one to teach this that had been erected in November before there was hardly lesson is regrettable but it would be an even greater tragedy a flake of snow on the ground Furthermore this sign warned if in the future no one ever dared or was allowed to use hikers of danger along the Avalanche trail and was this new knowledge to continue to enjoy our ruggedly directed at users of the Avalanche Pass Trail which passes beautiful mountain areas directly under the new Colden slide Because ofthe potential danger posed by this new slide Jim Giglinto and other forest rangers had recently attended an avalanche safety school in SmugglersNotch Vermont Based on the knowledge he obtained at this course Giglinto had been verbally telling the staff at the High Peaks Information Center that the recent snowfall pattern had appeared to have made conditions ripe for an avalanche Giglinto did not pass along any specific warnings for this 2O My Hiking

Partner is a Rabbit

by Janet Stein 4200W

When I moved from Western New York back to my was a long day March 6th in the big blizzard that dumped childhood haunt near Clifton Park I was clueless that the over two feet of snow in the ADKs Alain and I crossed move would be the launching pad for my Winter and Four Avalanche and Colden Lakes with zero visibility to make Seasons 46 Circumstances landed me at moms house for Redfield and Cliff The next day we waded through over an unplanned stay of six months I had a lousy job and was kneedeep powder to make Colvin and Blake bored After Christmas I called an old hiking friend Nerses Early spring is a surprisingly good time to hike The Ohanian We hiked Giant and Rocky on January 17 1999 snow is condensed and solid freezing hard at night making During our hike Nerses asked me if I needed Allen for my both on and offtrail walking easy The days are longer the Winter 46 He knew a woman who was getting a group sun is warm temperatures refreshing and there are few together for Allen on February 14 Winter 46 I had heard people On April 10th with ideal conditions Alain and I that people hiked the 46 in winter but the thought of doing made Wright Algonquin Iroquois Marshall and Colden them myself never crossed my mind OK Nerses give this The direct descent off Iroquois skirting Shepards Tooth woman my phone number Imgame for Allen to the Iroquois Pass trail is both challenging and fun The Marguerite MunchWeber aka Itty Bitty called me and herd path up the north side of Marshall is very pleasant 1 we made arrangements to meet at the Twin Brook Leanto hiked all the 46 this spring finishing June 6th on Dial site Marguerite would be camped there with others and In summer it is fun to be able to go ultra light with wanted to get an early 630 am start for Allen It wasntjust a fanny pack a couple of water bottles and some energy until after I got off the telephone that it occurred to me that bars Alain and I made two super marathon hikes in our I would have to start hiking at 430 am to make Twin unencumbered ultra light freedom July 3rdDial Brook five miles in by 630 I also received a telephone Nippletop Colvin Blake Sawteeth Gothics Armstrong call from a man with a thick French accent who said he Upper and Lower Wolf Jaws September 5thWright would hike with me from the trailhead he would be sleeping Algonquin Iroquois Marshall Cliff Redfield and Colden in his car Unbeknownst to me Marguerite had asked this Are we crazy Just a little bit but we like it that way I man to hike with me because she was sick with the flu and finished my Summer 46 on Colden couldntmake it The Noonmark fire Hurricane Floyd and the Halloween I departed Clifton Park at 230 am on the morning of windstorm brought on new challenges for fall The February 14th The Blue Ridge Road was snowy and slick destruction and devastation to the ADKs was immense I I arrived at the Allen trailhead at 440 am No sign of life heartily commend DEC and the scores of volunteers who in any of the cars I hurriedly prepared for my hike into put in tremendous effort to make our trails passable again Twin Brook My head lamp failed after 45 minutes leaving There is still much work to be done out there Both Alain me fumbling in the dark until dawns first rays of light saved and I have vowed to increase our volunteer efforts this me Twin Brook was void of life also I decided to make coming year In the wake of all this mess many of the Allen solo It was an easy walk the path was well broken trailless peaks especially Cliff Redfield and Allen are even With my early start I was on the summit at 1000 am As I more challenging than before Without the drive and descended the slide I was greeted by the Frenchman Alain determination of my most amazing hiking partners Alain Chevrette who had wisely sleptin and his friend Pin and Pin I doubt that I would have been able to complete Pin is a small rather whimsical stuffed toy rabbit who my Fall 46 has made all the 46 many many times with Alain in the When the calendar rolled over to winter once again I past three years Alain asked me if I would like to climb was anxious to finish my nine remaining Winter 46 After Porter and Cascade with him the following day I did We two failed attempts of Marshall on December 21 st and 22nd became instant friends hiking together nearly every due to weather then tactical errors I realized that my weekend since ambitious goal of finishing on January 1 2000 was not going I climbed 37 of the 46 in the winter of 99 Some of the to materialize Christmas morning Alain and I climbed Dix more eventful hikes included February 20Marcy Skylight and Hough The sky was a cloudless deep blue and the Gray and Haystack via untracked Panther Gorge Wow That continued on next page 21 continaed From page 1962 the number increased to 7 in website maintained by Alan Ratcliff in Harris 2824 for President Mary Lou 1970 26 in 1980 78 in 1990 and 227 Ohio George recognized the dedicated Recor 2214 for VicePresident and in 2000 work of Treasurer Dirt Dittmar the John Lange 3883 Tom Wheeler George Sloan in his closing Trailmasters for their effective contact 3356 and Wende Grubbs 2542 for remarks reminded the new 46ers that with outside agencies such as the DEC Directors while they are recorded members they Phil Corell and Tim Tefft for the now must work hard to become real Outdoor Tony Solomon gave the Historians Leadership Workshop efforts to brother and sister Report noting that there were 190 new members through work that helps and to the combo 46er finishers for 1999 and 86 new protect and preserve the mountains and Suzanne and David Lance who have climbers registered since January 2000 trails that have given us so much been Peeks editors for 15 years Nancy The HistoriansOffice received the challenge and joy George encouraged Allen was thanked for all her support with Barb grant from the 46er Conservation Trust everyone to become involved the as Immediate Past President and for the purchase of the Leave No 46ers club and to write to us about Harris was congratulated on her Trace pamphlets and the mailing of ideas for improving our work effort election as the new President the Sloan the the 3300 surveys Tony and Jane Nye George also acknowledged George adjourned at attended a seminar on the wilderness very important work of the Historians meeting 904pm to on management plan the Historians Office staff formed in 1996 take Office added two new correspondents the work previously performed by Respectfully submitted and processed 935 pieces of mail since Grace Hudowalski The efforts of Tony James A Barnshaw the Fall Meeting Solomon Suzanne Lance Nancy Recording Secretary Tony introduced correspondents Allen Mindy Jatulis Jane Nye and the Princeton NJ Mike Gebhard Tom Faulkner Mindy numerous correspondents have been Jatulis Milly Gittinger Carol Reese invaluable George also noted that Barbara Traver Brian Hoody and Wil former Director L John Van Norden Desbiens who presented certificates to has provided space for the Historians all the new finishers who were present Office within his law office building Wil Desbiens who presented for the 19 George also mentioned that the from new new Winter 46ers noted that since Ed 46ers have benefited Bunk became the first Winter 46er in computers upgraded databases and the

My hiking partner continued from page 21 subtle transformations of life as it progresses through the that each temperature was 6 F There was no wind and the trail was calendar year as well as the dramatic changes well broken It was a perfect holiday January 1st was season brings celebrated on Donaldson Emmons and Seward January 2nd brought temperatures in the 40s and rain making for an interesting hike of Colden Little snow and much ice on the Ausable Club trails made my choice of snowshoes but no crampons regrettable for my January 8th hike to Nippletop and Dial On January 9th Alain and I got an early start for my final Winter and Four Seasons 46R Marshall We went through Avalanche Pass and over the frozen lakes to the Herbert Brook approach The path was not broken We did some creative crashing through blowdown early on but once we reached the beaver pond the path was easy to follow despite 12 inches of fresh snow We arrived very triumphant on Marshalls summit at 1215 pm Pin insisted on having his picture taken with me but the cold kept our celebration brief and we saved the champagne for home Despite the speed at which Alain and I hike we never fail to the tremendous the mountains hold appreciate beauty Janet with her hiking partner Alain and Pin Pin in all Four Seasons has us to observe the Hiking allowed on Marshall 22 Presdert Page

It is such a privilege to become Committee But they are never far spondent Its nice to put a face to the President of the Adirondack Forty away because of their love of this person to whom you are reporting Sixers in this new century I want to club your climbs There are now 11 thank George Sloan the immediate Prior to the spring meeting at the correspondents past president for keeping me up to Holiday Inn in Lake Placid was the I encourage the new 46ers to stay date on all the latest happenings so auction of the Hudowalski in touch By that I mean become a the transition could be smooth He Adirondackana Collection with L volunteer in any way you can For will be a hard act to follow Ive John as auctioneer doing a superb example trailwork is a rewarding inherited a highly dedicated Execu job Grace was in attendance and adventure Plus you receive a tive Committee to help meet any received a standing ovation Graces Conservation Service Award patch challenges the club will face longtime friend Stephanie Bugden when you complete 46 hours of Im to welcome new direc in attendance next happy was also Stephanie trailwork the step after your tors Wende Grubbs Tom Wheeler 187 has made generous monetary 46er patch As Trailmaster Joe and John Lange Wende is a tremen contributions to the Trust Urbanczyk always says give some dous volunteer of trailwork who has The spring meeting had a new thing back to the mountains grown up with the 46ers She will be format this year We went back to the Some of you we will never see

replacing Mary Lou Recor who is original tradition of Vespers being again but I hope wherever you are continuing her 46er commitment by separate from the meeting and a you are leading hikes and teaching moving to the position of Vice good spiritual feeling filled the room responsibility of the trails and President The social hour before dinner was summits The mountains all over the Tom Wheeler another hard abuzz with climbing stories and country are being loved to death working trailwork volunteer was meeting of old friends The dinner not just the Adirondacks appointed to fill the spot vacated by was beyond delicious The fall meeting will be October 14 Ed Bunk whose term expired Next Phil Corell saved a surprise the week after the Columbus Day John Lange a great volunteer at for usa visit from Tony Goodwin weekend at the Keene Central Boulders the auction and anywhere presenting a prize to Ditt Dittmar School in Keene Valley There is a else he is needed was asked to fill L aluminum marker found on at an brand new gym the recently John VanNordensterm L John Noonmark dated June 7 1941 that renovated school Hope to see yall asked to leave as a director to con Ditt could never find to retrieve He there centrate on his role as Trustee of the had placed it there on that date Adirondack Conservation Trust I Then the highlight of the Happy Trails will greatly miss L John and Ed and eveningthe new 46ers receiving Barb Harris their contributions to the Executive their certificates from their corre 46er President

ADK News

As of fall 1999 27 children and their the Challenge as a way to encourage are given free to children who complete adult companions had completed the children as future stewards of the 2 hikes from each of the 8 regions for Adirondack Mountain Club ADK Adirondack Park to get to know it At a total of 16 hikes Adults who Kids on the Trail a time of interest in Challenge designed rapidly increasing complete the hikes with children may to with children in the and resource promote hiking the High Peaks pressures order a patch for a small fee The Adirondack Park and based on ADKs on this area the initiative also offers a Challenge continues through December popular guidebook Kids on the Trail different approach to experiencing the 2003 in the Park and to Hiking with Children serves disperse hikers to Challenge brochures are available at Adirondacks by Rose Rivezzi and other parts of its 6 million acres ADK Headquarters Information David Trithart The Challenge began in Children and their adult companions Center 814 Goggins Road Lake April 1998 often immediate or extended family George NY the High Peaks ADKs Laurentian Chapter which members or friendschoose hiking Information Center Adirondak Loj sponsored the Challenge has awarded destinations from a total of 62 hikes in Road Lake Placid NY or online at 27 Challenge patches 14 to children 8 regions described in Kids on the ADKs Web site wwwadkorg For and 13 to the adults who accompanied Trail The Challenge patches which more information contact ADK them The Laurentian Chapter created feature a kidsized hiking boot Headquarters at 5186684447 23 Winter desk continued from page 16

yesterday being very tired saying that I couldntmake it just about in tears and my brother convinced me that I wasnta quitter and that I needed to keep going 122897Wright PeakOkay were starting to get serious about this winter hiking We bought snowshoes good boots hiking sticks hand warmers you name it we prepared for it In summing up Donna talks about breaking out in tears on her final summit Basin and writes I need to say that in the beginning Stewart and I had no idea that we would climb all 46 in winter We went from having no proper gear to even carrying a cell phone for safety I need to thank Wade Baxter left and Jim Weed both finished their winter 46 this year Wade on my children for being so understanding Marshall on March 18 and Jim on Sawteeth a day later and for tolerating us through all the times we werenthome or came home I would mostly like to forget This appeared He had apparently lost our late This is a very big accomplishment occurred over ten years ago in January trail above treeline but found it further for me and I am extremely proud of where we elected to hike Skylight and down At this point I was quite what I have done I love the mountains perhaps a second high peak on a exhausted and just waited for Peter to and will continue to climb them till I surprisingly balmy weekend The prepare dinner shivering in the cold cantwalk anymore When you climb weatherman predicted an extremely Eventually I was able to get dinner the peaks especially in the winter the warm spell and for that reason we down and then perform my usual duties word determination has a new packed with lighter gear We came in of cleaning the dishes I was wearing meaning I feel especially proud through Tahawus and camped out by two sets of gloves an outer shell and knowing that not many women have the leanto next to the Colden Dam and an inner lining but unfortunately done this I am happy to be part of this Flowed Lands Accompanying me were unaware there was a break in the outer group Peter Koltai Lou Hodgkins and Rob shell my right hand became wet and Jim Weed of Middle Grove also Strominger It was extremely unusual because of my exhaustion and some finished on the 19th but on Sawteeth in that it was over forty degrees and a hypothermia I did not notice After we as he writes As you know my finale thunderstorm actually appeared in the went to bed I sat there in my single was on the final weekend of the season Adirondacks It was a spectacular sleeping bag shivering all night The March 19 Ron Lester myself along event something one does not expect next morning to my horror and dismay with the LaskeysPatti Schwenkert in January in the Adirondacks The I discovered blue and swollen fingers Wade Baxter and Mark McClain set off next morning we got our gear ready and specifically my thumb and my fourth for Lower Wolf Jaw about 700 am started our ascent There was plenty of finger on my right hand The warmest The weather was unbelievable There snow and clearly we were going to have gloves were offered me I was packed wasnta cloud in the sky and it stayed to break trail I remember it being up and not allowed to Use my hands that way the entire day We went at a extremely arduous but being so goal We got out as soon as possible and moderate pace snow pack was terrific oriented it only took us a minimum of working with the heavy pack I actually and the views were awesome at every breaks to reach the mountain When we heated my body up sufficiently enough stop In addition we had an incentive reached the summit of Skylight we to keep my hand as warm as possible We were hoping to meet up with Brian basked in the sun and enjoyed our When we got back to Albany several Packard on Gothics and between moment of glory I recall Lou asking ER physicians and plastic surgeons Brian Wade and myself it would be us to proceed wo him as he wanted thought the best thing was to keep the three 46ers earning their W in a 26 further respite from the trip Thinking hand warm not to let it refreeze and hour period it would not be difficult for him to hopefully it would heal Fortunately Dr Steven Parnes of the Albany follow our pathway down we headed this did occur but it certainly left its Medical College waited to the last day back down the mountain We waited scars of 46er winter to complete his Winter for Lou for quite some time The Well those are the tales for the 46 In discussing his Winter 46er temperature was dropping fast and millennium winternineteen new experience he writes Since each ultimately dropped 60 degrees to minus winter 46ers bringing the total to 227 winter hike is a major effort it 20 later that evening I went back up CLIMB SAFE See you in the hills heightens your awareness and I do and reclimbed to the summit To my and dontforget to write You too recall every single one over the twelve astonishment Lou was nowhere to be have a tale to tell year period Unfortunately the hike found I hiked back down and rejoined Wil Desbiens 4071W with the most vivid memories is the one Peter and Rob Miraculously Lou then Winter Correspondent 24 Trailmaster s Musings Tangled remnants oF Floyd challenge 46er trail crews

The 2000 trail maintenance season Floyds winds and rain Darwin Tubbs began much like the 1999 season our DEC contact from Crown Point ended clearing blowdown from had cleared the trail as far as SeptembersHurricane Floyd and Guideboard Brook in January With several October storms which packed four chainsaws and a crew of eleven strong winds and rain In October 1999 we removed the residual winter your crew spent ten hours trying to blowdown from the first three miles open the trail from Elk Lake to Dix We Along the BoreasColvin ridge we ran made it only as far as Slide Brook less into pockets of heavy blowdown but than three miles due to the massive nothing like what we found at Marcy tangles of downed trees on the trail swamp On the far side of the swamp May 5 2000 found us back at it A hardly a tree was standing They were small crew began clearing blowdown stacked one on top of another from the recently rehabilitated route to sometimes ten feet high The DEC had Nye They cleared part of the path but marked the route with orange flagging had to stop because there were several tape otherwise we would have had a feet of snow still on the ground The tough time knowing where to cut as it Ima lumberjack and thats OK snow obscured the path through the was difficult and sometimes impossible two hikers and that thickest of the blowdown so the crew to see the ground through all of the passed reported found severe pockets of blowdown could not follow it Not wanting to get downed trees We cleared about six they of the the a new over most remaining route to off track and create path they miles of trail in ten hours of work gorge That blowdown would have to stopped for the day May 20 deja vu all over again A wait We had been at it for The next day crews removed crew of four continued the clearing already hours and still had a three hour blowdown from the Round Pond trail process on the Elk Lake trail to Marcy eight hike out ahead of us to Dix and cleaned drainage We did Operating two chain saws we cleared On we May 27 not find many downed trees since approximately one mile of trail through Spring Meeting met at the had been there the previous September the heaviest blow down I have ever Saturday fortyfour people Loj for trail work Four crews with to clean up after Floyd encountered We cleared to the bow saws and cleared blowdown May 13 found us on the Elk Lake junction of the ATIS trail to Upper axes on the Indian Pass trail to Summit Rock trail to Panther Gorge and Marcy This Ausable Lake a little over two miles and to Scott Ponds dam on the Wallface area suffered significant damage from from Panther Gorge Late in the day Ponds trail A small crew hardened wet spots on the path to Nye near Indian Pass Brook and closed an illegal camp

site in the area Other crews cleaned drainage to Scott Clearing By the end of the day a lot of good work had been accomplished Sunday night a large group of FortySixers turned up at the Holiday Inn in Lake Placid to welcome new FortySixers into the organization some of whom had worked with us the day before As 1 write this interim report at the end of May we still have seven work weekends scheduled through September and will probably be out on a few that are unscheduled to continue removing stormrelated blowdown Join us if you can We would love to Trailmaster Len Grubbs sports the trail system topheavy clearing have you participate 25 Evolution

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work out and we went back to the city As I take stock of my peak team I think about how two and a half years ago a mutual friend organized a dinner between a group of old friends trying to catch up on present lives and old times and how over cocktails Rob and I decided to go to the Dacks and climb all 46 peaks At the time everyone thought we were doing the old lets get together and do lunch thing but we werentand todays the proof I suppose people climb for different reasons some for the beauty some for the exercise others are looking for answers and still others are just trying to escape 1 still haventquite figured out what draws me here maybe a little of everything guess but mostly because 1 just feel good here are clear and constant but ever being Things simple Jay a new 46er on October 11 1998 is presented with his T at the same time changing shirt by Rob Reynolds A geology lesson from Rob and the unsuspecting hiker would learn the views from these summits haventchanged Plan D was to do a day hike up Hurricane Mt which much since the glaciers melted I have to admit its turned out to be very exciting The winds were so strong I unnerving to look out on a wilderness view that hasntthought Idturn into the Flying Hiker but I didntmake a changed for that long a period of time to stand atop a summit habit out of it We got a room in Keene and dreamed of made of gneiss a kind of metamorphic rock formed at the Plan E edge of mantle and magma over one billion years ago but Plan E was since the waters receded we would try again to know that each of these summits is still rising about one to go into the Ausable River area and do an overnight But millimeter a year and each day the combination of it turned out that the trails were closed because of rain temperature wind and sky create a perpetual kaleidoscope damage of nature At times they feel alive with a mood and a Plan F was to do a day hike up Big Slide and come down personality all their ownfrom perfect sunshiny days that along the Brothers The weather turned out great and Rob energize the soul and warm the heart to Wrath of God even agreed to allow time for some pictures thunderstorms that can shatter teeth and wash out roads Just Youve gotta stay flexible and adapt the plan to current when you think youve got them figured out you learn how conditions is all he said Well I guess the weekend did much you still need to know The feeling I get upon reaching prove what a little planning will do a summit is no different than the feeling I get crawling out And then of course there was the Dial and Nippletop of my tent at first light while watching the fog rise up from weekend in December of 96 We planned our trip up the the forest the feel of a perfect baseball swing the wind in north side of Dial then to Nippletop The original estimate my hair while driving my convertible or the way my wife was three hours to Nippletop which we never made After looks in this one summer dress I just feel good to be alive two hours we reached the overlook to the northeast of Bear thankful and humble Den Mtn With at least an hour in front of us just to reach Dial I thought Id point out that the time estimate might be wrong At which point Rob said Yeah this is exactly the same mistake I made a couple of weeks ago with my They werentall great hikes for example there was the brothers climb up Big Slide in November of 96 when we both learned So how long did it take you to get to Dial I asked a lot about planning Our first plan which we called Plan Five hours was the reply A was to get a room in Lake George and do the Santanonis I was already a little unhappy since I had learned earlier the next day That morning the conversation went something in the day why crampons are required You see I slipped like Hey Jay Ive been thinkin that since it rained last and banged my knee pretty good before putting them on I night we should change the plan because the McMartin book had them I just didntwear them So now I bad an ever says the trails are normally wet Theresalso a stream that increasingly throbbing knee new plastic boots starting to might be uncrossable after all the rain last night give me blisters and no way to squeeze a ten hour hike into OK I replied You see that was my job To say OK an eight hour day I can only attribute Robs loss of Plan B was to go into the Ausable River area set up trailsmenship to one of two factors 1 he believes I have and camp and do several of the peaks However Route 73 was powers above those of mortal men and can curve space closed because part of the road got washed out from the time with my own bare hands or 2 hes preoccupied about rain Now we were on to Plan C We decided to have becoming a father for the first time and is racked with guilt breakfast in Etown and come up with Plan D continued on next page 26 Evolution continued from 26 page we could take a joke just as well as the next guy So we about leaving his enormous wife at home I chose option 2 enjoyed the trick the view and headed back to Times So we reached the summit of Dial in just under four hours Square Besides we figured we could take advantage of the and enjoyed a perfectly gloomy cloudy damp view from long days and still do Couchie the same day When we the summit But there was snow the night before so the trees reached Times Square on the return we took the other west in several places along the trail were covered in white which trail this time ending up going south to Santanoni OK so along with the icicles and waterfall ice flows created that maybe my pathfinding skills needed a little work Anyway storybook winter wonderland picture along the way that was we got to Santanoni easy enough and even though we both almost as magical as a 360degree view on a clear day I read the McMartin trail book and knew there were three false also got to break in my plastic boots and crampons for the summits before the true summit the last false summit fooled first time so all was not lost us We thought for sure the last one was the summit and the book was wrong and couldntbelieve what great time we made

After having been fooled three times now twice by I can also remember a lot of great hikes like the time Times Square and once by the third Santanoni false summit we climbed Panther Santanoni and Couchie in July of 97 as we ascended the third bump I pledged If the next rise which turned out to be the Adirondacks version of isntthe summit Im gonna buy Santanoni and turn it into MUDzilla meets Abbott and MUDello Ahhhh spring time a resort for the environmentally unfriendly Luckily it ak Mud and Bug season in the Adirondacks The memory didnthave to come to that and the next rise was the summit of an invigorating mountain steambath in the height of black with a 180degree view from the summit ledge While the fly season will be forever etched into my mind if not certain view from Santanoni was slightly marred by what remains body parts unaccustomed to the light of day of an old mining operation the next day when we made it We started out by packing in to the Bradley Pond leanto up to Couchie we were treated to one of the best wilderness making excellent time on a gloriously clear dry day After views in the mountains Theres something anticlimactic about an hour we hit the first section of trail where the trail about humping along a trail then climbing to near crews placed short logs perpendicular to the trail to walk exhaustion only to look out on an expanse of asphalt on called Corduroy which incidentally looks like corduroy highway housing developments and other signs of man Or is it the other way around Anyway the idea behind Luckily that wasntthe case with Couchie On those few corduroy is that in wet conditions there will be less erosion occasions when youve got the opportunity to gaze out on Well it didnttake long despite the corduroy for the sounds an unmarred wilderness view you sort of just want to take of birds chirping and streams gurgling to be all but drowned a deep breath and hold it because you know that over time out by the sloupp sloupp sloupp of our boots through fewer and fewer of these opportunities will be around We the muck Once we reached the leanto we set up then headed held our breath as long as we could but eventually headed for the intersection of the summit trails called Times Square back to camp and another delicious freezedried dinner and The original plan was to climb Couchie the first day then that oh so memorable bath Panther and Santanoni the next but best laid plans of mice and men and all that At any rate we reached what we thought was Times Square on time Now that I was an accomplished and highly skilled woodsman my trained eye But enough about the past This was to be my day and instantly noticed the four inch high letters P and C despite the weather the climb up Rocky Peak was carved ever so rudely into the trees to the north and west in exhilarating Theres no denying it would have been great Times Square to have better views but I wasntthere for the view I was Being a sort ofSherlock of the Woods I turned to my on a mission As nondescript as the climb was it was in Watson and pronounced Rob I have deduced the path to sharp contrast to the image of the event as it may have read Panther and Couchie Obviously some less experienced had it been recorded by a 46er official that certifies the final hiker than I must have left these intruding trail signs to guide climb less skilled hikers

To which Rob replied Are you ready yet Not being It looks like weve got a perfectly gloomy Adirondack the kind of people to turn down a friendly hand we set off day for this auspicious ascent up Rocky Peak Ridge The due west to Couchie right past the C tree We soon ran rain has been on and off all day with winds bringing across a campsite and a large boulder which I later realized temperatures into the low 4Os The crowd thats gathered at was the real Times Square We went directly across the the summit to witness the induction of a new member into campsite to a wellworn path still heading due west that is the auspicious 46er club hasntlet the weather dampen their until it began to head due north and we ended up around 30 spirits Everyones enjoying the music from the live minutes later on the top of Panther It was a great view and marimba band the dancing helping everyone to stay warm the herd but what the mixedup paths surprised us heck continued on next page 27 One Step At a Time presented at the Fall 1999 meeting during Vespers by Ellie George 44314

A year ago in August I finished my 46 peaks climbing amazed meall those miles all that elevation all those most of them alone A month later on a bright crisp day in rocks and logs to haul my body over all the mud rain snow September the clear exhilarating kind we all love for ice bugs and early mornings On many mountains I had climbing I hiked up Wright by myself The autumn colors stood alone except for the company of the toad on the glowed the wind surprisingly didntblow me off the top summit of Cliff the boreal chickadees on Marshall and the and I stood and gazed around at the marvelous view As wind rain and summit cairn chipmunk on Marcy On some Im sure most of you do I started identifying mountains of the hikes I saw no one at all like on Redfield and Algonquin looming hugely next door Colden with its Seymour and on icy Lower Wolf Jaw and snowy Sawteeth massive tall behindand I went How could I have climbed them all How could have slides pyramidal Marcy you 360 degrees naming all I could When I had finished I was climbed them all hit the realization that in the 14 months I had by previous And then the answer came swiftly and easily one stood on the summits of every mountain I had just named mountain at a time one step at a time Focusing on each As each and I visualized myself standing on peak gazing single step was what got me to each summit and back down back toward Wright I was awestruck How could I have again safely Suddenly it occurred to me that other of the done that The magnitude accomplishment totally continued on page 30

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From continued page 27 crazy Theres confetti being thrown in front of the young Even the 46er club honor guard is here in person and in intrepid mountaineers and oh my God theresa beam of their best dress uniforms to induct their newest member and sunlight now illuminating the summit cairn just a few feet of course to disclose the secret handshakeYes its quite a in front of our adventurers The moment is close theres a festive atmosphere up here at 4300feet with all the colors crack of thunder a bolt of lighting and he enters the light of the Gortex rainbow What a sightBut wait shhhhhh I His arms raised high in triumph with Rob by his side and think I hear a stirring over by the tree line He may be getting scores ofpeople in every direction applauding and shouting near Imgonna move closer to get a better view Jay Jay Jay Yes it seems like the crowd is definitely forming around the tree line and something else is happening up in Well it could have been like that but it wasnt the sky Icantbelieve thisAs though on cue the rain has Actually some of it was It was raining it was cold and I stoppedAnd theresa break in the clouds Could the sun did make it to the top at which point Rob presented me be breaking through Wait wait I think someone spotted with my first 46er Tshirt and a collection of 46er patches him The crowd is starting to hoot and clap Yes I can see and stickers That night some local friends hosted a dinner him Ican see himHes just broken the tree line and taken for us in Lake Placid All in all a great day with good friends his first few steps onto the summit slab Here he comes having tucked a milestone of life neatly under my belt bearing his trademark Seadog Brewing Co baseball cap Its been a great couple of years a few scrapes a lot of with his good friend Rob Reynolds right beside him learning some good some bad but I suppose there are two followed by Randall Richard and Bill Theres a look of things that will stay with me even if I never climb another determined concentration on his face his jaw firmly set peak The first is actually one of the first things Rob ever sharp eyes unblinking and focused on the objective at hand said to me not because hes very philosophical it was just his shoulders squared to the mountain taking long powerful his way of telling me I was going too slow All ya have to strides up the slab But wait hes stopped just just 20feet do to get through this is just put one foot in front of the from the summit cairn Could something be wrong The other Which is good advice no matter what you are into crowd is suddenly quiet No ones certain whatsgoing on The second was something I learned about myself After all but he just seems to be taking a look around yes thatswhat theres a lot of time to be introspective humping along a hes doing Hes just taking a look around Absorbing the trail for 10 hours or so at a clip I realized that had just as moment crystallizing the event for all time and memory much fun when we didntbag a peak as when we did So I His friends are joining up with him now and as they do concluded that for me at least the achievement is in the they exchange a knowing look They solemnly nod to one attempt not the result another and turn with heads held high to face the summit Thanks Dacks cairn together WHAT A MOMENT The crowd is going 28 Hiking Twins

Turners Become Winter 46ers by George DeChant

March 17 1996 turned out to be a beautiful day and a landmark occasion for the Turner family of Lake Placid NY For Fred and Phelps Turner this St Patricks Day is one month before their 18th birthday As twins they do a lot of celebrating together St PatricksDay 1996 would be memorable for the two because it would be the day they climbed Dix Mountain the day they completed their 46th winter peak Fred and Phelps are no strangers to the Adirondacks In fact their childhood is closely tied to climbing in the High Peaks At age five they became summer 46ers They were numbers 1939 Fred and 1940 Phelps to do so becoming the youngest 46ers on October 16 1983 Like so many firsttime climbers they began the ascent of the 46 with Cascade in the summer of 1981 Two years later they were on top of Algonquin having completed their goal of summer 46ers Algonquin remains one of Freds favorite because of this sentimental attachment When they began to decide which peak would be their final climb for the Winter 46 they considered making Algonquin the destination but finally settled on Dix One year after Fred and Phelps became 46ers their father Breck Turner 2064 became a 46er in 1984 The elder Turner spanned his climbing across 17 years beginning in 1967 Climbing is a family affair with the Turners When asked what they did to celebrate Fred said Our mom came along That was special Julie Turner 2661 is a summer 46er achieving that distinction in 1989 When Fred and Phelps were pursuing their summer round Julie and Breck would rotate going with their sons which explains why the elder Turners finished their 46 later Wearing more clothing snowshoes and crampons slows In fact it was with family that Fred and Phelps started on down a hike not to mention if you have to break through a the path to being Winter 46ers As eighth graders they hiked foot or more of snow on the trail along with their father as he completed his winter circuit Its a whole different mind set Fred said We did the hard ones with him Phelps said of those Mental challenge is relative considering the fact that early climbs with his father After that it was Fred and Fred was the salutatorian of his graduating class at Lake Phelps climbing together Placid Central School and Phelps the valedictorian The only Julie on the other hand was content not to climb in thing separating their grade point averages was a couple winter Its a big mental challenge 1 knew I wasntup to decimal points Phelps added he thought that there was more it Julie said Ijust stayed home and worried She was of a mental challenge in winter hiking than school because willing to make an exception on St Patricks Day of the consequences Sometimes Breck Phelps and Fred would give her think theres more discipline in the hiking Phelps something to worry about often leaving before sunrise and said You have more to lose not getting home until after dark wearing headlamps at the Their high school principal Robert Schiller said he beginning and end of the hikes because of the shorter days would see no problem with the two meeting the mental in the winter demands of winter climbing He used the example of Fred We spent a lot of the day in the dark Fred said and Phelps taking a New York State Regents exam without much irony continued on next page 29 Hiking twins continued From page 29

They left nothing to chance It was a time when they were going to be successful Schiller said They persisted just as if they were on a mountain Schiller added That transfers quite well to climbing among other things When talking about the two students Schiller often used the words diligent persistent and of course smart The Turners had one advantage that many Aspiring 46ers winter or summer donthavethey live in the heart of the High Peaks

Al we have to do is roll out of bed and drive five minutes Phelps said Working at the familyowned With Pipe and Book store Fred and Turner completed the winter 46 on Dix on also helped It allowed them to climb when the climbing Phelps March 17 1996 was good and to work when it wasnt They had another advantage in that they both had a great pain Fred joked He added that he was referring to the climbing companion physical fatigue that one must endure in winter hiking We both go at the same pace Fred said Id rather Similar to summer fatigue but more climb with Phelps because I trust him As Fred said this March 17 turned out to be the day that would make Fred Phelps nodded indicating he felt the same about Fred and Phelps Winter 46ers The family packed up and were The two work well together in decision making as well on their way Because of the conditions there was a crust They use the example of Gray Mt a trailless peak They on top of the snow enabling the Turners to walk on the snow were at the top and darkness was setting in They discussed instead of plowing through several feet of it the options of following their trail out or bushwhacking It turned out to be a great day Julie said It was another that might be shorter After a brief discussion they exciting decided it would be easier to follow their trail in the dark Through all the winter climbing Fred and Phelps have than to figure out a new one developed a love for it Since they always avoided hiking in bad weather they We found it so irresistible Fred said We plan to go were waiting for that last good day of the winter season As back the end of calendar winter neared the Turners were Among the things they list as making winter climbing concerned as to whether or not the winter of 19951996 enjoyable are the views and the solitude Unlike summer would be the year they reached their goal hiking where there may be 100 people on a peak you are We didntwant to put it off to next year Phelps said left to your own thoughts in the winter We wanted to accomplish the goal Its a challenge Fred begins and a thrill Phelps Its hard sitting through the summer thinking of the finishes the thought

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mountainous tasks in my life could be accomplished the same wayby concentrating on one problem at a time and working through it one step at a time Life s challenges now seemed less daunting and easier to surmount So the next time you are presented with what seems to be an overwhelming series of tasks or problems remember to focus on it in small progressive steps rather than as one big formidable monster Also remember to plan carefully before starting out and pack a flashlight because you might end up coming out in the dark But you will make it to your summits and you will make it safely back down if you pack enough determination focus on one mountain at a time and climb it one step at a time

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by Brian Hoody 4410

Editors Note This story by Brian Hoody is afirstfor Pee headed for Tawahus Road Route 18 itself turned out to be as it represents the first official ptece offictton we hrrve qmtein ordeal Shppery turns and gigantic icy hills ever published While it could have happened it is a tale theatCnedto sed hi careening off the highway into an from the author s tmagtnatton a fantasy to be pondered ontmyeldlng hardwood The sky was beginning to become a cold night sipping a hot drinl ext to thefireplace Streakod vth patlight and the stars were slowly winking itlxtUhed0ntthe Tahawus Road Eight or nine more There was this pond that he knw about It was tuOg nilesWould brihghim toihe parking area and it looked between Henderson Mountain and Santanom Peak He wits lik they had pIow rather recently He just hoped that he pretty sure that no one had ever gkated there before Nobody oldntget stuckl bequse if he did it was going to be a was to skate onitThe was at least crazy enoug pond itself veilohg cold walk to iSnd a phone The old station wagon five miles in and it was a pretty steady slog upWards all tle slipped here and there but delivered himto the parking area way He could imagine himself breezing across the pond which was not plowedutbut at least had some old four the shadow of Santanoni Peak looming above the ice all to wheel driv6tire tracks to follow He followed the old tracks himself There were logistics however that needed to be until the bottom of the car began to scrape loudly against examined ihe first of course being the hike in This was the snow upon which he decided not to push it any further midFebruary and temperatures were sure to be bitter cold and cut the engine At least he was somewhat off of the road The snow pack was also a factor and there hadbeen more The place was totally deserted and looked as though it snow than usual this year which meant that he would need had been that way for some time The first order of business snowshoes The second one was this there would be a lot was to find his head lamp and get his snowshoes on which of snow on top of that ice and in order to get to it he would was a feat in the predawn darkness and below zero have to shovel Which when you really got down to it time temperatures He pulled out the rest of his gear and slung it was the biggest factor to be pondered onto his back his skates and snow shovel lashed to the top He knew that a friend of his had some winter gear that of the big pack There was a faint trail leading away from he could borrow He would get a stern lecture for going out the register but it began to quickly fade in and out as he in the winter solo but this was something that he wanted to passed over sections of the road where the wind blew huge do by himself Something that he had dreamed of ever since snow drifts It was a struggle to get through the drifts with he had seen Bradley Pond sparkling like a jewel down below forty pounds of gear It was a struggle just to place one foot him as he crested the summit of Santanoni He would set up in front of the other And the cold Negative ten with a nice camp at the Bradley Pond leanto shovel all day sleep out stiff breeze according to the early morning news He thought and then get up the next day shovel a bit more and then that hed better thank his lucky stars that it wasntworse strap on his skates It was a plan all right and now only if he Eventually he left the road and started down the trail could get the weather to cooperate The weather was the that was to lead him to the leanto and the pond Now not key Snows or high winds during his overnight stay would only was he essentially breaking trail he was also beginning only cover up all of his shoveling He decided to bide his a slow ascent which would not slacken until he reached the time for a while and keep his eye on the weather reports leanto still more than three miles away The sun came out In the meantime he collected the necessary gear A four in earnest sometime during his uphill battle and it actually season tent and sleeping bag from his friend His old rose a few degrees He noticed neither of these things sleeping pad An old Primus stove and some fuel Tons of concentrating instead on forward movement That is until winter wear His skates and of course a real good snow he got to the bridge shovel Mostly being a dayhiker this was going to be quite Crossing the narrow bridge with about three feet of snow a load He would also need to find a four wheel drive pack on it provided for quite a tricky feat with snowshoes automobile to get him down Tawahus Road and to the He had to inch across sideways holding onto the shaky Santanoni Range parking area He had no idea what railing for support The semiopen water danced many feet condition the road might be in Sometimes they plowed below A fall into water in this weather could prove to be Most times they didnt disastrous if not fatal After two such bridge crossings he So extremely early one morning in late February he was on his way again passing through a winter wonderland his four wheel drive station and packed up neighbors wagon continued on page 32 31 Untitled

from continued page 31 view over the dark mass that was Santanoni Peak Away of snow and ice the crunching of his snowshoes the only from the lights of the towns and cities thousands of stars sound to keep him company Eventually he began to gain made their appearance and kept him company during dinner ground and soon this whole idea seemed plausible and not After he was done eating there was not much to do but so crazy go to bed He took off his snowshoes and boots crawled He arrived at the leanto around ten oclock under bright into his sleeping bag fully dressed and read for a while from blue skies The leanto commanded a powerful view of the light of his head lamp The days toils had wore hard Santanoni Peak which was sheathed in its coat of winter upon him and soon he fell into a fitful slumber He awoke ice and snow Off came the pack and out came the tent at dawn the inside of the tent draped with a thick coat of which he set up in front of the leanto He had considered hoar frost The little thermometer on his day pack registered using just the leanto in order to cut down on weight but as negative twenty degrees He was very slow in getting out of he expected snow had drifted over the floor which would his bag and into the bitter cold morning The sun was just make for a miserably cold night in just a sleeping bag Once rising when he fired up the stove to melt some more water the tent was up he threw all his other gear in quickly ate and prepare breakfast The sun was up as he gathered his some food grabbed his shovel and day pack and made his things to leave for the pond This time he grabbed not only way towards the herd path that lead by Bradley Pond Once the shovel but also his skates at the beaver dam he picked up the remnants of an old trail It had thankfully remained clear and wind free all night Someone had broken it long ago on what he imagined to be which meant that all of his work from the previous day was a grueling climb up the Santanoni Range After a few more still intact He still needed several more feet of clear ice so snows it would surely be covered up for good he once again set himself to the task of shoveling As the After about five minutes he could glimpse the frozen morning wore on the temperature began to rise and it looked pond through the trees He left the trail and made his way as though he had another perfect winter day on his hands down to the pond The snow on top of the pond looked as which was a rare event in the High Peaks indeed He stopped though it had not been disturbed since winter had set in He briefly again for lunch and soon thereafter he was ready to felt like one of the most remote persons in the world as he tie on his skates rested at the edge of the pond So far away from his friends A large swatch of clean ice lay before him about half and family in a nature that was just as hostile and wild as it as long as a football field and about half as wide He finished was two or even three hundred years ago He broke trail lacing up his skates and stepped onto the ice And for the out towards the middle of the pond Santanoni and Panther first time that he was aware of Bradley Pond felt the bite Peaks rising up mightily above him and once there began of manmade metal as he pushed off and began gliding down the arduous task of shoveling snow the ice He quickly gathered speed made a sharp turn and First he shoveled a long straight line about forty yards began to head back down the ice All afternoon he skated long and than began working out from there Adirondack up and down the pond taking in the beautiful surroundings snow much like the land itself had a tough consistency However once again the shadows began to lengthen and Several inches of soft powdery snow and then a layer of not wanting to stay out another night he knew that he must ice the process repeating itself He found the ice on the say goodbye to Bradley Pond He took one more turn on surface of the pond to be relatively free of bumps The first the ice and then traded his skates for boots and snowshoes solid cold snap in November must have frozen it in one He was gathering up his things and heading back to the night Bend down lift scrape throw repeat Eventually he leanto when as if on cue the clouds began to roll in heavy removed his heavy jacket and worked in just his fleece not with their promises of wind and snow Santanoni and Panther wanting to break out into a full force sweat Someplace in Peaks appeared to be holding back the angry clouds the afternoon he stopped for a quick lunch break but other seemingly waiting for him to make his exit gracefully He than that he worked all afternoon Only when the shadows could imagine in an hour or two a soft blanket of snow began to lengthen on the flanks of Santanoni did he stop for slowly covering up all of his work hiding the scrapes and the evening tired and hungry cuts that his skates had left behind But he was not upset He followed his trail back out to the beaver dam and Instead he was glad that this beautiful and powerful place then back to the leanto Darkness was beginning to fall as had afforded him the opportunity to do something that had he broke out his stove and began to prepare his dinner He never been done before Something that may never be done set up the stove on a semi snow free section of the leanto a floor and began the chore of melting water Clear skies meant a very cold night and as soon as the sun went down the temperature began to plummet Out came the heavy parka and he even draped his sleeping bag over his shoulders as he waited for his meal to cook Stars began to wink into 32 In Memorium

In Memory of Trudy Healy 148 semiannual voice of our club Trudy Marshall expressed his Hiker climber skier trekker did all the work she was the editor she commitment to preserving wilderness world traveler author artist had each issue mimeographed she in an essay Approach to the photographer gardener wife mother collated them addressed them inserted Mountains which appeared in The sister and inspiration Trudy Healy age them into envelopes and delivered Adirondack Reader Much more of her 84 left us on last trip April 26 them to the Post Office Of course time and of big roadless country are 2000 there werentas many of us at the time needed to give the opportunity for that Trudy was well known and she probably only printed 200300 complete and satisfying wilderness admired for her enthusiasm and energy copies of each issue as compared to the experience which thousands of people and down mountains She needed seek each running up 4000 copies today year on their vacations into hiked climbed skied and trekked all What more can I say Trudy really the back woods This reemphasizes the over the world active to the last She started something and look what it has continuing importance both to guard traveled to Europe Nepal Tibet developed into today Thanks Trudy the boundaries of our Forest Preserve Sikkim Bhutan Patagonia Peru Ditt Dittmar and to protect the wild forest Ecuador Mexico Canada New atmosphere within in order to preserve Zealand Africa and Egypt as well as George Marshall Founding Father the wilderness and its unique all over the US in search of As every FortySixer knows or superlative values for generations to adventure should know George Marshall 2 and come Lets make this our She published two books A his brother Robert along with their commitment too ClimbersGuide to the Adirondacks friend and guide Herbert Clark were and her life story From the Black the first to climb the Adirondack forty Guy Waterman Mountain Steward Tibet She the editor Forest to was of six Their first ascent was of Whiteface Guy Waterman was an avid hiker Adirondack Peeks magazine for many on August 1 1918 and their 46th climb historian musician writer and and years had articles photographs was of Emmons on June 10 1925 mountain steward Together with his and drawings printed in numerous An economist explorer and editor wife Laura he wrote several books books and magazines She was active Marshallsearly experiences climbing which added historical context and in many hiking and climbing in the Adirondacks led to a lifetime of philosophical perspective to the organizations including the American advocacy on behalf of wilderness and wilderness experience Their book Alpine Club Canadian Alpine Club conservation issues He was a member Backwoods Ethics Environmental Adirondack 46ers she climbed the 46 of the national council of The Issues for Hikers and Campers 1979 seven times Wasatch Mountain Club Wilderness Society since 1937 changed the way the hiking community and Penn State Club Outing managing editor of The Living viewed wilderness usage with its Friends are encouraged to take a Wilderness from 1957 to 1961 promotion of lowimpact camping as hike in Trudysmemory or donate to a president ofthe Sierra Club from 1966 appropriate backcountry etiquette The hiking or environmental organization to 1967 and he wrote numerous Watermansother books include Forest interested in Those learning more about articles on the Adirondacks and and Crag 1989 Yankee Rock and Ice her remarkable adventures can order conservation issues Geroge Marshall 1993 and Wilderness Ethics 1993 book her from httpwww was a charter member of the Another book Mountain Tales Tall handcarvedmenageriecom Adirondack Mountain Club and active and True is scheduled to be released composed during a Trudy Healy in club activities until moving to later this year The bizarre and tragic Memorial hike up Mt Aire CalifOrnia in 1957 He was assistant circumstances of Guy Watermans editor of Adirondac from 1955 to death were welldocumented in We are the news of the saddened by 1959 newspapers and magazines throughout death of 46er Trudy Healy We the country and do not bear repeating oldsters remember her well She was here But his approach to wilderness an avid climber in the Adirondacks and stewardship does an active contributor in the work of the The heavy use even overuse of Adirondack FortySixers prime wilderness areas requires that It is her pen sketches that are used each of us learn to minimize our impact in even today the Climbing Folders on the land We must develop a and also for Notes by Trudythe personal ethic which respects the 46er note paper resource because to do so is right Possibly her most important and from the Introduction to Backwoods lasting contribution to our organization Ethics is Adirondack Peeks magazine It was Trudysidea she invented Peeks as the L e tes Dear Adirondack Forty Sixers backpack trip in Wyomings Wind Letter to the Editors On behalf of the Board of Directors few Riverssummited a 13000foot Just a comment correction to the of the Residents Committee to Protect peaks and enjoyed a lot of solitude in View from the Boulders report in the the Adirondacks RCPA please allow one of our favorite ranges FallWinter magazine It was stated me to express our deep gratitude to you Finally we headed south to that we numbered 500 just six years for your contribution of 10000 Colorado to climb some more of the later in 1961 This may be a metaphor Thank much for the did you very joining 14000foot peaks We seven more but historically inaccurate I am 328 RCPA at the Donor level which leaves us two to go out of the and finished in August 1965 but due In 2000 the RCPA has undertaken 55 to procrastination and Graces pushing exciting projects We are continuing Despite all the adventures I still where is your application I finally the fight against acid rain on both the pine for a ramble in the Adirondacks received my number Had I applied in state and national levels We are again Reading Peeks really brings it a punctual fashion I would have had a expanding our citizen water quality all back home again I wonder if they number lower than 300 so the dates in monitoring groups and hope to have ADK are planning a 75th anniversary the article are wrong over 30 lakes and ponds enrolled by celebration for JBL2000 makes 75 Keep up the good work I love this summer We are organizing state years by my calculations As the reading the magazine wide action to limit the use of jetskis years pass those memories of JBL days Jeff Riklin 328 Newton Upper on rivers in marshes near public take on more meaning Falls MA beaches and other areas and we are Cheerio advocating for the passage of a jetski Charles Crangle Jr 3394 Dear Editors regulation bill The RCPA is also Seward AK Im curious about something The working to ensure that conservation View from Boulders in the Fall easements are purchased by the state Dear Ditt Winter 19992000 issue of Adirondack on 105000 acres owned by Domtar Thank you for sending me the Peeks says that We numbered Specialty Fine Papers periodical and your joyful 1000 just six years thereafter in 1967 The support of large donors like solicitation letters I cherish your See bottom right hand corner on page you is vital to our efforts Again thank sense of humor Not too infrequently 2 you very much for your generous I miss the Adirondacks and I regret not If there were 1000 46ers in 1967 support being able to hike there now But one why are my sons and i who finished Sincerely day I shall be back the 46 high peaks in August 1971 ADK Peter Bauer Best wishes 46ers Nos 691 692 and 693 I can Executive Director Friedel Schunk 1468 Germany understand that some people finish and dontreport immediately but that Dear 46ers Letter to the Editors seems like an awful lot of people to Please find enclosed my dues for re An Ode to Turning Back Trouble have finished before we did but then 9899 I wish you all the best in your in the Dix Range not report in for more than three years which is of Brian activities I really appreciate I It courageous Hoody This obviously is not a weighty am Swiss and climbing all the peaks in 4410 to share the story of what issue However if someone is ever 1974 is still one of the highlights in my should not have happened One might sitting around with nothing to do life only hope it taught him and his partner maybe he or she could help answer this Best regards a lesson Yogi Berra upon instructing puzzle Dr Fritz Strolz 1050 Magden a younger player is quoted as saying One other thing I have never Ican show you how to hold a bat but climbed Noonmark and was giving Dear I cant as Ditt learn you experience Or some thought to driving over this Had this Jonathan B former some great trips past Clement a summer and see if these 75 yearold started it off with sea of the Catskill once summer We a President 35Rs legs could make it to the top kayaking trip in Prince William Sound said at the clubs annual dinner upon Unfortunately the recent issue of the and then off to the Central Brooks the conclusion of the winter season Peeks says that there was a major fire to river I had done 20 who hikes in the Range canoe a Everybody Catskills on NoOnmark last summer Should I On that I read Bob in should years earlier trip April without snowshoes get still think of hiking it or has it become On this his Amen What MarshallsAlaska Wilderness crampons inspected an ugly hike There are lots of other trip I read Arctic Village They both holds true for the Catskills in April mountains I could substitute enriched our with to the Adirondacks in really trips past certainly applies Thanks so much for your help history early May At least in most years Sincerely After the Brooks Range trip we Friedel Schunk 1468 Achim Robert Nuckols 693 West headed to the Rockies for some more Germany Granby CT fun We did fabulous a 12day Editors Note We made a dayafter continued on next page 34 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Hiking Twins continued From page 29 The Esper Twins Final Reports First Peak Climbed Cascade 33199 46th Peak Climbed Cliff 102899

My name is Brecken Esper and I climbed all 46 High Peaks I finished on Cliff on October 28 1999 My Daddy Mommy twin brother Josiah and baby Galen hiked with me Johnathan went with us on the last trip to Redfield and Cliff There was a lot of snow and blowdown We camped three nights I want you to send me my questionnaire My Mommy will help me to fill it out I dont write much myself I am only five and I am starting to learn my letters and numbers now I am writing a long story about my climbing with Mummys help It will take a long time to finish I get tired always talking about my trips so Mommy said we could take our time to finish We will work on the questionnaire first so we can get our certificate in May at the meeting Grace told me she will come to see me get it Your friend Brecken Esper

I am Josiah Esper and now I am a 46er My whole family are 46ers except for Galen who is just one I finished on Cliff It was a sunny bluesky day with a foot of snow We had fun crawling through the tree tunnels with my older brother Johnathan This was the only trip he went the whole way with us We had to break branches for Mommy to fit through with Galen in the backpack Sometimes we had to climb high over blowdown Mommy ripped her purple Gore tex pants She said she would keep them as a memory We stayed an hour on the summit of Cliff when we finished We wrote in the log book We took pictures We ate some food We fixed the canister on a higher

tree The canister was on a broken tree near the snow My Daddy saw it first and told us to look for

it It took us a few minutes to find it I will send you my report in a few months Mommy says we need more time to do a really good job We on our will work questionnaire next so we can go to the meeting in spring and get our certificate Please send it soon Thank you very much Your friend Josiah Esper