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Today’s Hike: Esther and Whiteface

October 23, 2009

Well, I’m here.  At the Starbucks in Lake Placid NY.  I’m “checked in” at the hostel – which means I’ve picked up my key from the mailbox and claimed a bunk by putting my bag on it – and I’ve had dinner.  So what’s left to do except write to you, dear reader? My mind [...]

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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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Weblog: 4-19-2009

April 19, 2009

“Move along, folks. Nothing more to see here.”  I’m going to do some subjective blogging for a bit: Yesterday (Sunday 4/19) was a great day.  I climbed two mountains using only a map, compass and digital altimeter.  And my wits.  I feel phenomenal.  Seven miles of bushwack made for a hard hike, but my overall [...]

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Hiking Photos

January 28, 2009

I finally got my hiking partner Scott (the vegan success story and current blog-commenter extraordinaire) to dig up his USB cable for his digital camera and bring it by my house.  It took about two months and five minutes in total to get the photos since July uploaded to mycomputer. I’m still working on the [...]

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Today’s Hike 1-24-2009

January 24, 2009

Today we’ll be hiking Balsam Mountain. This is one of the four required “winter peaks” for admission to the Catskill 3500 Club.  The last time we climbed this mountain was December 13th of 2008 (just before winter the ”beginning” of winter on 12/22).     View Larger Map In case you haven’t perused the Hiking Page lately, Scott and I carry [...]

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On Being a Teacher – Part 2

January 23, 2009

“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, criticize.“ If you read yesterday’s post all the way to the end and did, in fact, hit that “RSS” button up top, thank you for subscribing to this feed.  If you read yesterday’s post all the way through and didn’t hit the “RSS” [...]

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Coffee vs. Water

January 7, 2009

I just about can’t believe that my answer is water. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to quit drinking coffee anytime soon, but not too long ago water overtook coffee for me.  It’s like grease for my brain.  This is totally counterintuitive for me – I’ve been using coffee as my main study aid [...]

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Today’s Hike

January 4, 2009

Today we’ll be hiking Slide Mountain.  At 4,180 feet, it is the highest mountain in the Catskills.  It’s also the most isolated peak in New York – it’s next higher neighbor is 136 miles away.  You can see the Peakbagger profile for Slide here, and read about it on Wikipedia here.  As always, if you’d [...]

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