travel light, wake early, walk far
All in all, it was a great and challenging route and one worth doing. My main advice is to make sure that you are comfortable and confident with hiking off trail and with using a GPS and compass to navigate.
In an attempt to learn from our previous winter ADK trips, we booked two weekends on our calendar in January to try to do the trip in acceptable weather. As things worked out, the weather was acceptable for the first weekend. Acceptable by winter ADK standards involved 40-50 MPH winds at the summit of Whiteface... Continue Reading →
As we enter 2019, I’d like to say thank you to everyone to whose hard work makes DC UL possible. Here’s to another year of (ultralight) adventure.
It was a nice coincidence when Russ mentioned the Peak as we drove to the trailhead… and that he had the GPS tracks with him… and that we’d be walking very close to where it is located.
I decided I couldn’t let the Fall totally slip by me this year without getting in a backpacking trip, no matter how sleep deprived I might be. I talked GQ into coming out of retirement, and we assembled a crack team of veterans and DCUL newcomers. To make things a little more interesting, Mother Nature... Continue Reading →
DC UL Backpacking 