7/3/16 Parking: Adk Loj Group: Mom, Shawn, Emily & Murphy Tabletop was one of our orphaned mountains that we needed to grab before finishing up our 46. This mountain can easily be tagged onto to several of it’s neighbors (Phelps, Marcy, Colden, etc) but we just kept leaving it out. So, after a beautiful wedding in Bolton Landing that Saturday night, we drove up and slept in the car so we could hit the trail early Sunday morning (we had…
5/17/16 Parking: Adk Loj Group: Emily, Shawn, Murphy The forecast called for thunderstorms starting Saturday afternoon, so we decided it would be a good morning to visit Street & Nye. We left Albany at 5am, made a quick stop at Stewart’s to get an egg sandwich, and were at the Loj by 7:30am. The parking lot was emptier than usual, but there were still a handful of cars parked. Fifteen minutes after we pulled in we were on our way around Heart Lake (and starting…
4/23/16 Parking: Adk Loj Group: Mom, Carol, Kelly, Dan, Stephanie, Andrew, Shawn, Emily, and Murphy We had a big group with us for our first trip up Colden! Since we were coming from a few different (some far-off) directions, and the sun wasn’t suppose to come out from behind the clouds until 1pm, we set our meeting time at the Loj for 10am. By 10:30am we were off and headed for Marcy Dam. After a quick stop at the Dam, we…
4/16/16 Parking: Adk Loj Group: Emily, Shawn, Murphy Our new backpacking camping gear arrived and we were itching to get out and use it! I really wanted to camp out at Lake Colden, and Shawn still needed Cliff & Redfield, so we decided to hike in from the Loj through Avalanche Pass (we hadn’t been there yet!) and stay in one of the Beaver Point lean-tos. Because we were staying overnight, we didn’t feel too rushed Saturday morning and didn’t leave Albany…
1/24/16 Parking: Adk Loj Group: Mom, Shawn, Emily, Murphy Shawn was in the midst of prepping for the Bar Exam, but I tried to drag him to the mountains every time he started to get worn out and/or was studying more than 15 hours a day. This time – it was a trip up Phelps! With a floating idea of tying on Tabletop…(spoiler alert: it didn’t happen). We pulled into the Loj around 7:30am and started hiking not long after….
6/20/15 Parking: The Loj Group: Mom, Shawn, Stephanie, & Emily This was our first trip out of the season, and it was a tough one! We hiked in past Lake Arnold, and visited Gray first. Then over to Four Corners, went up to Skylight, came back down and went up and over the other side of Marcy. Below are the step by step instructions for this direction of the loop! Take the Van Hoevenberg trail 3 miles to Marcy Dam…