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Catskill 3500 Club

Hiking Goals

July 16, 2009

Scott loaned me The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, saying “It’ll change your life.”  I’m pretty sure he said that because the subtitle is “A Book That Changes Lives.”  Whatever.  I’m about fifty pages in right now.  I’ll let you know what I think when I’m done.  Millman definitely writes like an [...]

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Day Off

July 15, 2009

I’m taking the day off from work today.  It feels good.  I think I’m going to do fuck-all nothing.  I have appointments at 8 (AM – ugh), 2, and 3:30, for an oil change, haircut, and a tune-up for my meat suit, respectively.  In between, I might go shopping for some incense.  Most likely, though, [...]

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Catskill 3500 Club Requirements Complete

July 12, 2009

Man, I love Led Zeppelin.  Playing on my stereo right now is “The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair” – from the BBC Sessions double-disc.  I should have had this played at my wedding.  Talk about blues-driven.  And yes, I see the double entendre in that statement. I’m going to buy a [...]

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Today’s Hike 7-11-2009

July 11, 2009

Today I’ll be tackling my twin nemeses Lone and Rocky Mountains. These are the last two mountains I have left to climb in order to get into the Catskill 3500 Club. I’ve climbed the other 33 mountains in the Catskills that are over 3500 feet above sea level. I’ve also climbed four of them again [...]

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Today’s Hike: 6-28-2009

June 27, 2009

Today I’ll be hiking Southwest Hunter Mountain.    View Larger Map As I think I’ve mentioned before – Friday, in fact – Scott and I ascended this particular peak one rainy day back in October.  But we didn’t find and sign in at the canister.  In our defense, this was our first bushwack – the first [...]

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Today’s Hike 4-18-2009

April 18, 2009

Today I’ll be hiking Doubletop and Graham Mountains.  Both are bushwacks; I’ve spoken of them before.  The round-trip should be in the neighborhood of 6-7 miles.  The weather’s supposed to be nice.  I’ll be climbing these mountains on approximately 4 hours of sleep (thank you NASA, sense of duty, and desire to be famous).  The [...]

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On Verbosity and Busy Days

April 4, 2009

Big Words and Long Sentences I think the my last few posts have been kind of crappy – but what the hell, people have been reading them.  One of the girls with whom I was emailing on eHarmony (no, I’m not a complete internet dating failure) asked me if I was “verbose”.  I know she [...]

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Today’s Hike 3-28-2009

March 28, 2009

Today I’ll be hiking Fir Mountain.  At 3,620 feet, Fir is the 25th highest peak in the Catskills.  It doesn’t have a trail to the summit, so it’ll be a bushwack tomorrow.  I’m planning to head in from the parking area at Burnham Hollow Road and hike south to get to the summit.  It should [...]

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Today’s Hike 3-22-2009

March 22, 2009

Yes, yes, I know: I usually hike on Saturdays and today’s not a Saturday.  Well, bollocks on you, I’m rearranging my schedule (pronounced shed-yool).  I picked up my kayak yesterday (yay!) and catered last night, so I decided that trying to hike in the AM would be a bit too much.  My kayak, by the [...]

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Donkey Seeks Girl Dragon

March 16, 2009

…or “ISO Female Hiking Partner for Sex in the Woods.” I’m looking for a woman in good shape who owns crampons and snowshoes and knows how to sh*t in the woods.  Someone capable of climbing mountains, someone who actually enjoys sweating.  I’m out there every weekend, looking at the world from the tops of mountains, [...]

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