Our 3rd annual Geekend hike was up Thomas Mountain in Bolton Landing, NY. This is the second time I've been up Thomas (the first time was with the family), but that didn't take anything away from the trip. With 7 guys, this year's Geekend outing was our largest yet! The original plan was to hike …
Yard and Big Slide
In our continued trek to get our High Peaks lists matched up this summer, Mark and I got together to tackle Big Slide Mountain, but it's not enough to just bag the highest mountains, so we added the less visited Yard Mountain and made a loop out of the day! TRIP REPORT We started out …
Santanoni Range
July 9th started out like any other day that we planned to be hiking ... early morning pick-ups for a carpool to the trailhead. Unfortunately, it didn't end like any other hiking day, but I don't want to get ahead of myself ... We reached the parking lot near Tahawus and started our trek out …
Cranberry Lake 50*
NOTE: Normally I post all of my pictures on the trip report for a hike; however for this adventure, I put together a slideshow with all of our pictures and videos, and uploaded it to YouTube. You can view the video by clicking on the picture below: During our January hike in Moreau Lake State Park, …
Dial & Nippletop (from Round Pond)
Mark and I spent some time earlier in the month figuring out a plan that would get us leveled up with our summit lists AND hit our ADK 46er 1/2 way point by Labor Day. This weekend's plan was to hit Dial and Nippletop - repeats for Mark, but numbers 12 and 13 in my …
The Hiking Morrisons 