I know that parents can risk projecting their wants and needs onto their children. I definitely try to remain cognizant of that fact. Still, I want to make sure I impress upon my kid the importance of staying active. I want to share with him the healing power of accomplishing hard things.Still, at his young age, I knew he wasn't ready for 8 to 10 mile days. I did think he could handle short overnight trips where we break up the trip over two or three days. I'd considered just doing a quick camping trip at a campground to gauge his reaction to tent camping. However, the summer...
A couple of months ago, Sunny and I were invited to Adam N.'s Catskill 3500 finisher on Kaaterskill High Peak. It warmed my heart to be invited and I immediately added it to the calendar. As the day approached, the forecast showed that we would have just about a perfect day for it. After a short discussion in the chat, the group decided we'd bushwhack up to Roundtop first (which is on the Catskill highest 100 list), then head over to Kaaterskill. Thanks to the folks on the hike for sharing photos of the day. Several of the photos here were taken by them. We arrived at the trailhead at the end...
I was itching to get out to Indian Pass again. I'd alerted the forester that I'd be out there either June 7 or 8. Although rain was forecast on the 7th, Mondays are super difficult while Quinn is in school, so I decided to go out on Sunday instead. I set a leisurely 5am alarm since it was the weekend and I doubted the Upper Works lot would be full. The weather was fine on the way into the trailhead, but it started to sprinkle as we drove up Blue Ridge Road.
Stella, Nick's wonderful Husky, only needed four more mountains to catch up with him on his 42 High Peaks: Sawteeth, Gothics, Armstrong, and Upper Wolfjaw. We'd had an adventure planned for May before Memorial Day for some time and I was quite looking forward to it. Gothics is probably my favorite mountain. Then, Charissa messaged us saying she was keen to do a single-season 46er, so I invited her on our LGR day. Charissa had hiked both Sawteeth and Whiteface with me in the past and she'd been doing some training on the Catskills, but we figured this hike would be a great challenge and test of...
I was looking forward to finally getting out to Indian Pass after my trail stward training trip a couple of weeks ago. As I said, I'd never actually been on that trail and it had a bit of notoriety for being unkempt and difficult to follow. I was quite eager to put in the work to turn that impression around.