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Old 08-20-2017, 06:12 PM   #1
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ADK: What again? Yes, definitely.

We disappeared up North for a week. We rented a cabin on Horseshoe Pond. It was excellent. We climbed Ampersand Mountain which Willy the hound and I camped on 30 years back. We paddled the pond and big chunks of the Saranac River including a passage through the locks. Played Catan a couple evenings, finished the 5th Extinction, continued Hamilton, knocked off The Gunslinger, roasted some corn, just chilled. Good for soul.
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Old 08-20-2017, 06:17 PM   #2
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Old 08-20-2017, 06:30 PM   #3
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Good for soul.

I like that. I'm taking the scouts hiking and camping next weekend. It will be fun, but not quite the same as a week with family.
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Old 08-20-2017, 07:55 PM   #4
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Good for soul.

I like that. I'm taking the scouts hiking and camping next weekend. It will be fun, but not quite the same as a week with family.
I wish I could go with you. I was an Eagle Scout and Order of the Arrow.
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Old 08-20-2017, 08:03 PM   #5
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Old 08-20-2017, 08:25 PM   #6
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Good for soul.

I like that. I'm taking the scouts hiking and camping next weekend. It will be fun, but not quite the same as a week with family.
But a nice change just the same. Enjoy.
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Old 08-21-2017, 07:07 AM   #7
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I was an Eagle Scout and Order of the Arrow.
That's no small accomplishment.

I was neither.
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Old 08-21-2017, 11:05 AM   #8
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That's true but look what happened after that.
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Old 09-25-2017, 06:37 AM   #10
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Saddleback and Basin

Pete and I hiked in along John's Brooke and set up camp Friday afternoon. We got up Saturday and did a 10 mile loop which included Saddleback and Basin. We descended the pictured face of Saddleback which was a bugger. If I do it again, I'd rather climb up that thing. Look at the tiny people! Anyway the picture is from Basin which is #9 in elevation of the ADK Mountains. A nice weekend...
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Looks like descending would be easy except for a couple sudden stops.
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Old 09-25-2017, 05:06 PM   #12
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Yeah, it's not so much the falling as the stopping falling...
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Old 09-26-2017, 11:51 AM   #13
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Wow. That looks like some serious terrain.

You and Pete must be in very good shape. Ten miles of THAT is like a marathon of flat land. Or more.
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Old 09-26-2017, 03:05 PM   #14
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Just follow the yellow stripe trail... I think coming down would be twice as bad.
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Old 09-26-2017, 04:58 PM   #15
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Wow. That looks like some serious terrain.

You and Pete must be in very good shape. Ten miles of THAT is like a marathon of flat land. Or more.
...or very sore.
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