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MOUNTAIN ELEVATION DATE CLIMBED Herbert K. Clark Whiteface 4867 8/1/1918 Herbert K. Clark Herbert K. Clark Marcy 5344 8/27/1918 Mountain Roster Algonquin 5114 8/28/1918 Iroquois 4840 8/28/1918 Adirondack Forty-Sixer #1 Giant of The Valley 4627 6/8/1920 Dix 4857 6/9/1920 WHITEFACE MOUNTAIN MOUNT EMMONS Blake Peak 3960 6/10/1920 Colvin 4057 6/10/1920 8/1/1918 6/10/1925 Haystack 4960 6/11/1920 Colden 4714 6/13/1920 Cascade 4098 6/20/1920 Porter 4059 6/20/1920 Big Slide 4240 6/21/1920 Skylight 4926 8/10/1920 Basin 4827 8/11/1920 Gothics 4736 8/11/1920 Saddleback 4515 8/11/1920 Marshall 4360 6/26/1921 Nye 3895 6/27/1921 Street 4166 6/27/1921 Esther 4240 8/2/1921 Dial 4040 8/9/1921 Nippletop 4620 8/9/1921 Rocky Peak Ridge 4420 8/10/1921 South Dix (Carson) 4060 8/13/1921 East Dix (Grace) 4012 8/13/1921 Hough 4400 8/13/1921 Macomb 4405 8/13/1921 Armstrong 4400 8/15/1921 Lower Wolf Jaw 4175 8/15/1921 Upper Wolf Jaw 4185 8/15/1921 Sawteeth 4100 8/16/1921 Allen 4340 8/19/1921 Redfield 4606 8/19/1921 Donaldson 4140 8/23/1921 Seward 4361 8/23/1921 Panther 4442 8/24/1921 Santanoni 4607 8/24/1921 Seymour 4120 8/25/1921 Wright 4580 9/1/1921 based on information compiled Phelps 4161 9/18/1923 by George Marshall Tabletop 4427 9/18/1923 Couchsachraga 3820 6/23/1924 Cliff 3960 6/26/1924 Gray Peak 4840 6/26/1924 Emmons 4040 6/10/1925 © Adirondack Forty-Sixers, Inc. 2013 Herbert K. Clark July 10, 1870 — March 3, 1945 Bob, George, and James Marshall on Herb Clark “…by an almost impossible combination of circumstances it just chanced that erbert K. Clark was born near Keeseville on July 10, 1870, the ninth of eleven children born to Herb came to work for Father. At this time my brothers, my sister, and I were all HElizabeth Marion Spence and John Clark. He grew up on the family farm near Augur Pond in the under ten years of age. I can not speak authoritatively of what Herb meant to the town of Chesterfield. As a child he helped with farm chores before going to school, and at the age of others, although I have strong suspicions. I do know positively that to me Herb has twelve he took on odd jobs outside the farm during the summer months to help support the family. In been not only the greatest teacher that I have ever had, but also the most kindly 1896 he started working at the Club House at Bartlett’s Carry between Upper and Middle Saranac and considerate friend a person could even dream about, a constantly refreshing Lakes, serving as a night watchman, rowing the freight boat between Bartlett’s and Ampersand Bay, and stimulating companion with whom to discuss both passing events and the more and guiding. An avid hunter and fisherman, he was said to be as lean and wiry as the fishing rods he han- permanent philosophical relationships, and to top it all, the happy possessor of the keenest of humor I have known. … dled so skillfully. He was quoted as saying, “I guess I was born fishing.” I recall once, while we were battling our way through the clumps of mountain In 1903 he married Mary Jane Dowdle from balsam on Colden, hearing Herb’s cheerful voice from far above booming out: Madrid, New York. The couple settled in ‘Don’t let the golden moments go, Saranac Lake and had six children: Gertrude Like the sunbeams passing by Marion (b. April 13, 1904); George Thomas (b. You’ll never miss the cripple brush September 4, 1905); Herbert John (b. May 8, ‘Till ten years after you die.’ 1908); Irene Elizabeth (b. November 24, 1909); … At the age of 51 he was the fastest man I have ever known in the pathless woods. Furthermore, he could take James Robert (b. June 12, 1913); and Francis one glance at a mountain from some distant point, then not be able to see anything 200 feet from where he was Vincent (b. January 23, 1919). Their home was walking for several hours, and emerge on the summit by what would almost always be the fastest and easiest route.” filled with hospitality, generosity, gentleness, — Bob Marshall from High Spots, “Great Adirondack Guides,” October 1933 kindness, and wit. “Our guide, Herb Clark, was one of the finest people I ever knew, a fast and secure man in the woods, a splen- In 1906 Louis Marshall hired Herb Clark to be did fisherman and hunter, and a tireless rower. We his family’s guide at the Knollwood Club, their camp complex on Lower Saranac Lake. The position was learned much from him, and his company was always a available when the previous guide, Ed Cagle, decided to open a livery stable in Saranac Lake. Herb’s joy.” professional duties at Knollwood led to a life-long friendship with the Marshall family, in particular with — James Marshall in a letter to the Adirondack two of the Marshall children, Robert (known as Bob) and George. Daily Enterprise, April 25, 1986 “Bob and I were frequently looking around as we After exploring the small peaks around Saranac Lake – their first climb was of climbed [Ampersand] to try to get a glimpse of Round Ampersand on August 13, 1916, when Bob was 15, George 12, and Herb 46 – Lake [Middle Saranac] through the trees. When we the trio climbed their first High Peak, Whiteface, on August 1, 1918. Over the came to the ladders, Herb Clark was afraid that if we next seven years the three climbed all of the peaks over 4,000 feet in elevation, craned our necks too hard in our effort to see every- finishing together on Emmons on June 10, 1925 to become the first to climb all thing, we might fall. So with ever ready wit he told us of the Adirondack High Peaks. Their summers of fun and adventure captured that it was on these very ladders that Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt for disobeying the admonition never the attention of kindred spirits, eventually spawning the creation of the to look back, and that if we looked back for a view while on the ladders we might suffer the same sad fate. We were Adirondack Forty-Sixers. Today, more than 7,800 people have literally fol- sufficiently impressed to wait for our view until we reached the summit.” lowed in the footsteps of Herb Clark and Bob and George Marshall. — George Marshall, from High Spots, “Some Reflections on Ampersand Mountain,” July 1934.