I finished the high peaks on June 14 to become a 46er. (Finishing before Alex.) Climbing all the mountains over 4,000 ft. in the Adirondacks is something I have been working on since doing my first two in 2004 on a high school backpacking trip. Though my interest didn't peak for completing them until three years later when Joel and Alex did some on their day off at Camp Cherokee. Ever since then I have been hiking the high peaks every day off possible averaging about nine a summer. It seems almost every summer I have had my days off with all girls. Though that didn't stop me from hiking. I just had to remember to slow down.
The one hike that stands out the most is when I did the Great Range with Joel, Alex, Shama, and Emily. We were lucky to get our days off switched to all be off on the same day during a family camp. That day we hiked 21.5 miles in 14.5 hours, climbed eight high peaks and ascended over a total 10,000 ft. Yeah, we were a little sore the next day.
Before staff training, Jessica went with me to go finish my last four high peaks: Cliff, Redfield, Gray, and Marshall. It was a long muddy, rainy, cold hike but I finished. Many people have asked me what I was going to do after I finished. Well I have done some trail running, road biking, and motorcycle driving.
Then Tuesday, Joel and I climbed up MacNaughton, "The Forgotten Mt." It got that name for a reason, for there are no trails up the mountain.
3 comments:
Nice work, Andrew! Did you get a shirt??
Your interest didn't peak until then, huh? Well, I hope you learned valuable lessons of patience and forbearance with all that slowing down you did.
So you found the trail, yay! Next time more pictures, please.. I wish I could have gone to actually find the top, though our trip was fun, too. You didn't recount the travails and tribulations you experienced on your hike with Jessica - it would have made quite the blog post! Yet anyway, congratulations on finishing.
yes, yes good job indeed with all your recent acomplishments, hiking buddy ole pal! Keep on swimming! (but not faster then me :-D)
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