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    ADK 46ers

    Daily dispatches and photos from climbs of the Adirondack 46ers, the 46 highest peaks of New York State’s Adirondack Mountains.

    Roots

    Adirondack hiking over rocks and roots

    Nearly one year ago, I arrived at an unassuming stripe of cleared forest that would never have been identifiable as an international border had it not been for the small silver obelisk marking precisely that. A few feet away, a collection of square wooden posts also declared this the end of a Pacific Crest Trail adventure that had begun 2,650 miles and…

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    46

    The 46th and Final Summit scaled

    Sleep has never come easily to me. Years after the Appalachian Trail I’d still occasionally turn over in the middle of the night and reach bleary-eyed for the headphones on my nightstand to plug them in and listen to one of the few sounds that would bring an end to my rising anxiety if not to my sleeplessness: rain on a tent.

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    The Great Range

    A Grand Central Station of hiking trails at Johns Brook Lodge

    I wasn’t always this soft. Age and a career in front of a computer has a way of doing that, slowly obscuring who we really are underneath. Some people go to church to be renewed. I come here.

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    The Final Four

    Ace with 46R patch on Mt. Colden

    I did it. I completed my 46ers while 46. To understand the significance of that, just ask my dear friend KathiJo.

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    Jeff “Mountain Man”
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    Writer. Engineer. Triple Crown long-distance hiker. Gear junkie. Chaco ambassador. Certified Wilderness First Responder. Always dreaming of the next trail.

    When I’m not on the trail chronicling my adventures for Stone and Sky, I’m a freelance writer, public speaker, and consultant for aspiring adventurers.

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    Skills may be weightless, but down feathers are the next closest thing. Here’s a look at what’s currently in my pack.

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