The first day of our week-long peak-bagging in the Adirondacks summits had really kicked our butts!  As a one-day hike, the 3-summits of Iroquois, Algonquin, and Wright were massive and we were feeling it on our second day. We decided on a “zero-day” and took on a bit of relaxation in Lake Placid, walking around town a bit and exploring the area.  In our COVID-19 era, the town was thankfully not hugely crowded, and some folks were taking precautions, as

We’d planned our trip to bag our first peaks in Adirondacks in the fall 2019.  We found an awesome BnB in Keene, NY – on the northern fringe of the High Peaks wilderness area, and near Lake Placid.   All seemed in good order until COVID-19.    Early on, we all learned about social distancing and what it meant. Fortunately for us, as the COVID spring gave way to summer, businesses and trailheads in the high peaks area began to gradually re-open as

And so it begins. Last summer we finished up the New England 67, the list of the 67 4000′ summits in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, by completing Katahdin, Hamlin, and North Brother. So, what’s next? Of course there’s another list! The NorthEast 111 list adds the 4000′ summits in New York to the New England 67 list. Of the New York summits, there are only two in the Catskill range, with the remainder in the Adirondacks. For this trip,