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Heroes March 24, 2013

Welcome Home Sergeant Sean Petrondi, U.S. Army

I couldn’t miss this one if I tried – the Warriors’ Watch and A Hero’s Welcome did a ‘mug & hug’ for Sgt. Sean Petrondi in West Chester, to his Aunt’s house across the street from mine.

46er, Adirondacks, Landscape September 20, 2012

Dix Range Traverse – Dix, Hough, S. Dix, E. Dix, & Macomb

Wanting to finish my summer off in style, I made one last 800-mile drive to climb more mountains. Wanting to satiate my inner masochist, I chose a day hike of the 5-peak Dix Range.

46er, Adirondacks, Landscape September 13, 2012

Dial & Nippletop

Iterations of this hike have been planned and scrapped since July, with the latest one a proposed Colvin-Blake-Nippletop-Dial hike. The previous day’s over-hiking scrapped the 4-peak plan in favor of a more modest straight up-and-back over these two, allowing if nothing else an extra hour of sleep.

46er, Adirondacks, Landscape September 12, 2012

Wright, Algonquin, & Iroquois And Avalanche Lake

Wright, Algonquin, and Iroquois were the three best back-to-back-to-back peaks we’ve enjoyed in the Adirondacks.

Mechanical August 25, 2012

Corvettes at Carlisle 2012

Here is a quirky hodgepodge of my Friday afternoon at the 2012 Corvettes at Carlisle event.

Flora August 24, 2012

Black-Eyed Susans

Getting some time with my Nikkor 200mm f/4 macro in my back yard.

Landscape August 19, 2012

Adirondacks Re-Processed

I decided that some of the shots from my excellent vacation could use a black & white film emulation. These are digital shots converted to b&w with a (real) TMax 400 film texture.

46er, Adirondacks, Landscape August 5, 2012

Phelps Mountain

We had already completed two hikes which to us were special – our one-way traverse of Gothics & Sawteeth and our first “unmaintained” hike up Street & Nye. After making them both easily, our new 46er mentors gave us a new challenge, for a secret passage up the back of Phelps Mountain.

46er, Adirondacks, Landscape August 4, 2012

Street & Nye

Having successfully navigated a one-way traverse of Gothics & Sawteeth, and with the encouragement of our new 46er mentors, we decided to hike our first “unmaintained” trail to Street Mountain and Nye Mountain.

46er, Adirondacks, Landscape July 31, 2012

Mount Marcy

Mount Marcy, at 5,344 feet, is the highest mountain in the Adirondacks. It is also the most hiked of the 46 high peaks, which is a little odd to me since it is a 14.6-mile round trip taking the usual way from the Adirondack Loj (pronounced ‘lodge’).

46er, Adirondacks, Landscape July 29, 2012

Lower Wolfjaw, Upper Wolfjaw, & Armstrong

We made it fairly easily up to 4,173-foot Lower Wolfjaw which offered better views on the way than on the top, and then went back down-and-up to get to 4,173-foot Upper Wolfjaw. After lunch on Upper Wolfjaw, we easily had enough in us to make it down-and-up again to 4,400-foot Armstrong.