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Saturday afternoon after hiking Seymour, I was pretty tired. I decided ahead of time to get a space at Tmax & Topo’s in Keene, a hiker hostel. It’s owned by some pretty legendary 46ers (they even made an appearance in the The 46ers Film!) and is...

Trail dry and well-trodden, with a few muddy spots beyond the big cairn that marks the entrance to Esther. Took the old ski lift trail just beyond the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (second time in two weeks I used this trail). It's shorter but...

For whom the bell tolls.. it tolls for ̶t̶h̶e̶e̶ me. Please forgive the artistic license I have taken in co-opting the lofty thoughts of John Donne and Ernest Hemingway for use in an ordinary trip report but on Friday I completed my Saranac 6 then afterward...

I tackled my first trailless Adirondack High Peak today! Esther Mountain is one that I’ve seen on the drive to Lake Placid hundreds of times, but somehow, I never paid it much attention with its busier neighbor, Whiteface, right there to the left. One...

In 1997 I attended the Banff Festival of Mountain Films (the Burlington, VT stop of the “Best of the Festival” tour) and was awestruck by the film “I Made It.”  It was about Goran Kropp of Sweden who 20 years ago this October left Stockholm with all...