What a beautiful day we had, life is good! I had the privilege of hiking with High On Life, and what an awesome person indeed.
Our plans were to hike this via the Calkins Brook trail, go over to Seward, then backtrack to Donaldson, Emmons, and back to the Calkins Brook.
We met at the trailhead at 530 Friday morning, signed in, and were soon on our way. The trail to Calkins Brook is a very nice walk-in and especially nice on the way back out. We arrived at the cairn for Calkins Brook at around 630 am, took a quick break, and we're off. At around 2300-2800 feet I started to get fatigued, I definitely wasn't in my mojo like I typically get into after getting warmed up. We discussed our options to either continue or turn around, we opted...
We arrived at the Adirondack Loj around 8 am. Today (Friday, April 14, 2006) would by Mark, Derek, and myself hiking Street and Nye.
We arrived at the trailhead sign-in at 820 am and meandered our way down to Indian Brook, where we finally found a safe place to cross at 10:05.
We made our way up to the junction arriving at 1:40 pm after dealing with a fair amount of blowdown along the way. It was a short jaunt over to Nye summit arriving at 2:00 pm, with no views.
After a quick photo session, we headed back to the junction arriving at 2:20 pm. We were soon on our way to Street. This summit seemed to be a bit elusive, and a few surprises as we had a little bit of trouble staying on the trail, blowdown, and the spruce traps were a bit...
We arrived at the Garden parking lot to find it almost empty. I went and paid for our parking and returned to the truck for our stretches, made our last-minute checks to make sure we had everything we needed, signed in at the register, and around 1 pm off we went toward JBL.
My son, Derek, and I set out for Johns Brook Lodge in hopes of spending the night in a lean-to but prepared to use our tents. We met several people coming out from having a few night's stays. We arrived at JBL around 5 pm, and soon went to see the caretaker and get a lean-to because our friends Mark, Chris, and Justin were going to come in later that night and the next day, our luck there were some available.
We stayed in the Goodwin lean-to, which was in an...
For Father's Day, my dad, son Derek, brother Rick, and I set out to hike Sawteeth mountain. We arrived at the Lower Ausable parking lot after dropping off Derek and Dad at the beginning of the road. We were at the gate (trailhead) at 6:41 am and were off on our hike. I picked this hike for Fathers day because my father and brother had never done a high peak, so I figured this would be a fairly easy one, in that you start out with a long walk before climbing, this was nice for me also because it gave us time to slowly warm-up.
We arrived at the lower Ausable lake at 8:50 am, had a drink and shed some clothes, and continued on. When we arrived at the waterfall I was amazed, this was a very relaxing and beautiful site, and I could have...
On April 17, 2005, we set out to hike these two peaks, on a very nice day.
This was another great day of hiking. It's funny how some days we describe as "epic" and others were just great hikes. This was one of those "epic" day hikes as we all felt strong all day.
The 4 of us hiked these two beauties on a weekday, which has many advantages compared to a weekend. We would not see another soul until we returned back to Algonquin from Iroquois peak. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the exact start time or ending time, but I do know it was done entirely in daylight hours.
The trail is well-traveled and is a popular hike, so naturally, it sees a lot of traffic. It is a steady uphill once you get past the junction where the trail goes to...