Adirondack Peak Experiences

by White, Carol S.

• ISBN13: 9781883789633
• ISBN10: 188378963X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-19
• Publisher: Black Dome Pr

Summary

Eighty-six true tales by more than 75 hikers including Forty-Sixers and members of the Adirondack Mountain Club about the dangers, challenges, and joys of all-season hiking and backpacking in the Adirondacks. Included are unforgettable climbs, extreme weather, animal encounters, getting lost, accidents, injuries, rescues, inspirations and enchantments in an awe-inspiring wilderness. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Carol Stone White compiled and edited Catskill Peak Experiences: Mountaineering Tales of Endurance, Survival, Exploration & Adventure from the Catskill 3500 Club (Black Dome Press, 2008), a collection of true stories of adventure in the quest to summit all 35 Catskill Mountain Peaks over 3,500 feet in elevation. Carol is also the editor of Women with Altitude: Challenging the Adirondack High Peaks in Winter, published in 2005. She and her husband David are authors of Catskill Day Hikes for All Seasons, published in 2002, and are editors of the Adirondack Mountain Club's comprehensive guidebook, Catskill Trails, 3rd Edition, volume 8 of ADK's Forest Preserve Series.Carol and David are regular and winter members of the Catskill 3500 Club. They are also members of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers and became Winter Forty-Sixers in 1997. Carol served from 2003û2007 on the Executive Board of the 46ers Club. They are also members of the Adirondack Mountain Club, David serving as a Director from the Iroquois Chapter. They are members of the Four Thousand Footer Club of the White Mountains, having completed climbs of the forty-eight peaks over 4,000 feet in summer in 1999, and in winter in 2006. And they are 111ers of Northeastern USA, having completed climbs of the New York-New England 4,000-footers in September 2000 (then 113 peaks). They have climbed eight of the 14,000 footers in Colorado.Carol received the Susan B. Anthony Legacy Award in 2007 at the University of Rochester with polar explorer Ann Bancroft and long-distance cold-water swimmer Lynne Cox. They spoke on the theme, ôDaring the Impossible: Strong Women Take on the World,ö on how they draw attention to causes larger than their own ambitions.

Table of Contents

Geographical Index to the Stories	p. ix
Adirondack Map	p. x
Foreword by Neil Woodworth	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Preface	p. 1
The Adirondacks	p. 3
The Adirondack Mountain Club	p. 5
The Adirondack Forty-Sixers	p. 9
Adventures in the High Peaks Region	p. 15
Mother Nature vs. Record-Breaking Mountaineer	p. 16
The Great Range in a Gale
A Windy, Cold Night at 4,500 Feet-The Cave Dog Adventure	p. 22
Extreme Challenges in Extreme Conditions
A Moonlight Climb of Mount Marcy	p. 26
A Mile-High Adventure
A Marcy Adventure	p. 29
Intelligence: Not Making the Same Mistake Twice
Trek to the Top of New York State	p. 35
From Bears to the Bare Summit: A Marcy Backpack
Good Grief! Nineteen Years of Halloween Hiking	p. 39
An Epic Epicurean Experience
The Trap Dike	p. 43
Don't Leave the Dike Too Soon
Close Encounters of the Bear Kind	p. 46
Bruin Buddies Too Close for Comfort
Of Mountains and Children	p. 50
Wilderness through the Eyes of Children
Dome of Heave	p. 55
Algonquin Peak Encased in Ice
We Shan't Be Long	p. 60
A High Peaks Thanksgiving
Night on Bare Mountain	p. 63
Below Zero in Your Birthday Suit
Bear Encounters on Johns Brook	p. 65
Close Encounters of the Furred Kind
A Dog's Day in the High Peaks	p. 67
A Puppy's Peak Experiences
Sleeping in the Snow, May 1943	p. 71
These Girls Were Something Else
Algonquin Sunrise-August 1944	p. 74
Adventure in the Night
Leadership	p. 76
"Toughing It Out"
The Dethroning of the Kings	p. 78
The Pride of Lyons
Climbers Follow Ghost up Mount Marcy	p. 81
A Legend Tracks a Legend
A Ride to Remember	p. 87
Accident on Misery Hill
Into the Teeth of the Tempest	p. 89
The Day the Weather Gods Used It All
Curse of the Four Corners	p. 91
The Legend Is True
The North Face of Gothics	p. 93
Like Clockwork
The Great Range in February	p. 95
Winter Mountaineering School Instructors Challenge the Range
Subzero Backpack	p. 97
Overnight in a Cold Lean-to
Wallface	p. 100
One of the Hundred Highest You Pay For
The High Peaks Bear: A Love Story	p. 103
Three's a Crowd
My Taylspin of a Wedding on Whiteface Mountain	p. 109
Why Get Married Anywhere Else? (Except for the Guests)
Johns Brook Trail Memories	p. 112
Adventures of a Hutboy (Who Always Tells the Truth)
Spotted Mountain-Take Four	p. 116
An Elusive (and Spectacular) Adirondack Peak
Lost Pond Peak	p. 120
Lost and Found
High Peaks Surprises	p. 122
K. Kong and A. Wolffe in the Mountains
For Want of a Flash	p. 124
A Rookie Mistake
A Neophyte in Hermit Country	p. 127
Trial by Bushwhack
To the Summit	p. 130
Cascading Emotions
A Sawtooth #1 Odyssey	p. 133
In Quest of the Hundred Highest
Forest Burglars	p. 136
The Wild-and the Uncivilized
The Felons	p. 138
Camping Qualms
If a Tree Falls	p. 140
Does It Make a Sound if No One Is There?
In Quest of the Forty-Six High Peaks	p. 141
An Unplanned Overnight in the Dix Range	p. 142
Injury Miles from Nowhere in Winter
Algonquin and Iroquois in Winter	p. 147
Persevering through Extreme Conditions
Misadventures on the Way to a Winter Patch	p. 151
Experience: The Best Teacher (If You Survive)
A Night on the Trail	p. 156
An "Unforgivable" Lapse, and How Experienced Backpackers Survive
Street Walking	p. 158
Into Indian Pass Brook at Zero Degrees
Octogenarian Adventures	p. 161
Age Is Only a Number
The Day I Almost Died	p. 166
Hypothermia-Solo
A Bad Day in the Mountains Beats a Good Day Anywhere Else	p. 168
Humbled by Nature's Raw Power
The Agony and the Ecstasy	p. 170
No Secrets near Gothics
Having an Ice Day	p. 172
Into Uphill Brook
Pursuing the 46: The Darwin Award Method	p. 174
Tales from the Clueless Hiker Gene Pool
Icy Slide off Big Slide	p. 178
Solo Danger
Families Rule, but Stupidity Reigns	p. 180
Not Your Typical Backpacking Trip
The Curse of the Dixes	p. 183
The Mountains Will Decide
Frostbite!	p. 188
Nature Is Unforgiving
Nature Rules	p. 190
The Good Old Snow Days
The Water Hike	p. 192
Weatherwise or Otherwise?
Cold Water	p. 195
Staving off Frostbite
The MacIntyre Range via the Wright Slide	p. 197
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In Quest of High Peak Slides	p. 200
The Saddleback Slide in January
Triumphs and Troubles in the Santanoni Range	p. 203
Don't Tempt the Elements
A (N)Ice Series of Adirondack Tales	p. 205
Everything You Wanted to Know about Ice, Snow, Cold, and More
The Dix Range	p. 212
Five Peaks in a Twenty-Square-Foot World
A Long Winter's Day in the Santanoni Range	p. 217
Pay Attention to Your Body
Mount Marshall in January	p. 219
So Near and Yet So Far
Surprise on Allen Mountain	p. 224
And en Route
A Memorable High Peaks Winter Circuit	p. 226
... Wherein Mother Nature Cooperates to Make an Impossible Trip Miraculously Possible
What You Walk upon Grows	p. 229
46ing the Buddhist Way
Calamity in Our Times	p. 234
Planting Good Seeds
Luck Counts in the Adirondacks	p. 236
Waiting for that Telltale Crack
A Man-Killer Hike?	p. 238
This One Shows "What a Man is Made Of"
A Three-Season Hike in June	p. 240
What If Adam's Group Had Turned Back?
Adventures in the Greater Adirondacks	p. 243
Why Do We Hike?	p. 244
Wilderness: More a State of Mind and Spirit Than a Place
Adventuresome Appetites	p. 248
Wild Experiences
A Fall from Grace	p. 254
Just One Step from the Summit
The Pitcher Plant	p. 257
The Lure of the Wild
The Northville-Placid Trail	p. 263
Solo Through-Trip in Wet Conditions
Forty Years of Adirondack Hiking	p. 267
Discovering the Adirondacks and the Fire Tower Mountains
On a Clear Day You Can See New Hampshire	p. 269
With Two Boys and Dad, You See Much More
Lost in Winter	p. 272
Chilling Out
I Won't Tell Anybody If You Don't	p. 274
Lost
Dreams at Sucker Brook	p. 278
The Greater Web of Life
Northville-Placid Trail	p. 281
Two Women on the Trail
Misadventures on Cranberry Lake	p. 285
ADK Fall Outing in the Remote Adirondacks
Treadway in October	p. 287
Treadway Anytime
The Mysteries of 3,860' Blue Ridge	p. 289
Trailless Explorations
Reflections on Raquette Lake	p. 291
Growing Stronger in More Ways Than One
Firetower	p. 294
A Poem
Glossary	p. 295
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 296
About the Editor	p. 297
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