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Try cous couscous, (be sure it's the instant type) rehydrates with hot or cold water).The parmessan flavor with chicken, or salmon packet is my favorite! 😋
so no beaver crossing between wackley and L.Durrant? when I did the trail in 1998, beavers had trail all messed up....guessing they re-routed trail which is good? Also, are there camp grounds at Wakley dam to pitch at tent? if so, is there a cost to it? thanks....you hit great weather for early Oct....
I hope you earned your 46 ADK patch. I am a big fat guy who lose 45 pounds over the 18 month from continous walking. So I find you as an inspiration for fellow big guys. I grew up in Lake George. I moved to the North Carolina Piedmont. The North Carolina mountains are steeper than the Adirondack Mountains, but the trails lack all the Adirondack rocks, I watch your video because of homesickness. Keep interviewing your friends because it makes more interest.
Mohawk 411 flight in 1969 crashed on+near Buck Mountain killing fourteen people. It was a common hiking attraction when I was a kid but it was largely gone by I was old enough.
I am a Lake George history teacher. You were near two French and Indian War battlefields: the battle of Sabbath Point and battle of Snowshoes 1758. Look up Roger's Rock on Lake George+ Roger's Rangers
Very close ... the trailheads are just down the road a little bit from each other. Arab is the outlier on the other side of Tupper Lake, but still not too bad overall. Enjoy your adventure!!
Watched this series for the first time and great adventure and great crew! Also because the NPT is on my radar as a long hike I can start doing in sections. :)
Staying at the JBL property does involve some restrictions, and one of those is that within the property, you can only camp at the designated lean-tos and aren't allowed to use tents or hammocks unfortunately. That being said, you could camp in a primitive site *near* the property and use a tent or hammock if you want.
Thanks for putting this up, I'm working on my planning for a '24 through hike on the NPT. It's interesting to note that I've worked with Tony Oehler for quite some time. He is a great role model for hikers.
57 years ago I led a small group of boys 14-15 starting from John's Brook Lodge and the Garden over Gothics, Saddleback, Basin and Haystack on as exquisite a day as you could ever have in late August. Came down the Phelps trail. 20 miles total. Not 6 but a bunch. Was in good shape then Haystack is considered #1 rated view in the high peaks because of the exceptional view of Marcy and the Panther Gorge. It is not an way summit to get to. If you haven't, do Noonmark. Incredible views of Giant just behind it, great range and Dix,.
Colden was the first high peak I climbed at 14 in 1962. (Except for White face and Esther.) There were no cars, anyone could pull into the small, dirt parking lot and you could grab almost any lean to you wanted. No reservations then. Trails had almost no people,
One of my all time favorite mountains. 57 years ago I led the first hike of Giant via Ridge trail for the camp I was a part of. Years later I had a profound healing experience on it. Them years later I took a very short hike to the Roaring Brook Falls with a friend. I found a fist size rock that had settled in the heart of a fallen tree root system. Might have been there hundreds of years. I took it home and still have it. I will always have a piece of this mountain with me
Great video dude. I started making videos of my camping experiences in ADK so that on those bitter cold days in winter, I can look back at a gorgeous summer day i spent paddling, and regain a little bit of that warm sunshine feeling. Glad you hung on to this video apparently until now- it's nice to see a camping video that's not hot tenting.
I just got done watching your video about what you were able to put into that 45 liter backpack. I have to say I was pretty amazed by how much camping and hiking gear you got to fit in and on it. Though I guess you only need to boil water for your meals. So no need for something like a small 9-1/2" frying pan. Oh yeah, and about those so called water resistance dry bags you bought from Amazon. I bought the same exact ones and found them to be a little less than water resistance the hard way. By accidentally dropping one in a stream while I was holding it. By the time I got it back it had already leaked in some water. Fortunately there was nothing important in it like electronics or something like that. But still I was a little disappointed with them. So when I got back from my camping and hiking trip. I took all of my 8 dry bags sacks or whatever you want to call them. And gave them a good spraying down with some Nixwax water resistance spray. Then let them dry out for a couple of days and that made a huge difference. But I do like you do with them and use them to put different items in them depending on the color. Red of course for first aid items and pack that where it is easy to get to. I also have the same exact Anker brand 20000mAh portable power bank. Plus a few other ones, just depends on what I plan on using them for. I've never done the hammock thing before, but it is definitely something I want to look into. Especially if I know where I will be hiking has plenty of trees around. I could see how something like that could come in handy and from what I have been told before. Is that once you sleep in a hammock you will never want to sleep on the ground again! Oh yeah, and the good old dryer lint is something I have been using for a long time now. Only difference is that I put it in a empty TP roll so I can just throw it into the campfire I am about to start. And I'll even go as far as putting a little bit of hand sanitizer on the TP roll. Just to help it get started faster which seems to work really well. And you can't beat those Hot Hands hand warmers. Especially on a cold night I always put a couple in my sleeping bag about a hour before I hit the sack.
I know this video is some 4 years old by now. But after watching you put everything together in separate Ziploc bags. To me seems like a huge waste of time money and most of all Space and Weight. As a threw hiker at least for me when I know I'll be out on the trail for a week or more at a time. One of the most important things I take into consideration is the amount of pack weight. I will need for everything that is going to go into my backpack. And as all the threw hiker butwill tell you which is very good advice is. For every pound in your backpack is like ten pounds on your feet. Guess what I am getting at is, I noticed that you put the oatmeal packets into a separate Ziploc bah for each day. Which in my opinion is not practical because of what I said before. When I start planning out my meals for my camping and hiking trips. I try to consolidate as much as I can to keep the weight down. I know what people are going to say about this. That a little Ziploc bag doesn't weigh enough to make much of a difference. But when you add up the amount of Ziploc bags used in this video. Plus all the wasted packages that were put into all these Ziploc bags. That I assume you might throw away at your nearest trail stop trash can. Think about all that plastic from all those Ziploc bags. Not including the packages that went into them at least to me. Seems like a lot of effort, time, money, space, weight, and waste. I've gone the complete opposite direction than what was done in this video. To not only prepare my own meals for my camping and hiking trips. But to also make sure I am not wasting valuable space and weight in my backpack. All it took to get me started on making my own meals is two things. One is a dehydrator, and the other is a food vacuum sealing machine. With these two items I can make all kinds of delicious meals. That end up costing a fraction of the price for even one freeze dried meal. But don't discount freeze dried fruits, vegetables, powdered milk, and other things you can find. That don't weigh a lot, but still pack a punch when it comes to nutrition and nutrients. My local REI store sells these really cool heat resistant plastic bowls that fold up into a very small piece. And they can hold up to 1.5 liters of whatever you want to put into them. The best part is actually two things, one is that they have graduation marks on them so you can see and or measure the amount you are putting into them. The other thing is that they are extremely easy to clean, fold up and reuse again and again. Taking up practically no space whatsoever, as they fold up into a small thin piece that can slip in my cooking setup. Anyway, just my two cents so take it for what it is worth. Because I've been there done that before when I first started going on camping and hiking trips. Thinking I had to bring everything but the kitchen sink. Into my backpack and the next thing I knew. My pack weight was some 35 to 40 lbs and by the end of the day. I felt just like what I was told by some more experienced hikers. Which I mentioned before about for every pound in my backpack was like ten pounds on my feet. Because by the end of the day all I wanted to do is set up my tent, sleeping bag and pad and hit the sack. While everyone else was out next to the campfire (where permitted of course) enjoying each others company. And cracking jokes about me and my pack weight and not being able to handle it. Peace out everyone and get out there and explore the great outdoors!!! I hope at least one person got something out of this big long comment. About me and my experiences and learning what not to do. Because that is what I had to do by learning the hard way the first few times I went camping and hiking.
Dudes, great vid! I've hiked Ampersand 10 or so times and it's an all-time favorite, fun hike with a beautiful view, I'm sorry yours got cut short by a storm. Between that and Cascade, there aren't that many more beautiful views you can get in the High Peaks
I might be doing 6 High Peaks in 1 hike in spring 2024 the most that I did so far in 1 hike is 4 during October 25th 2023 it was my 21 hour hike I went from the Calamity Brook Trail to the John Brooks Lodge along the way I knocked off my primary target for 2023 Redfield then did Gray Peak then Skylight and finally Haystack before heading for John Brooks
@@kenkaplan3654 I’m use to doing long hikes and walks I walked from Watertown NY to all of the townships and all the villages in both Jefferson and Lewis County NY and a number of other places in the 2 counties and even when I moved to Carthage NY I continued it to the point where I started hitting up the neighbors in 2023 I walked from Carthage NY to 1 place in all 4 neighboring counties I did Oswego County’s Redfield(township/hamlet) Oneida County’s Boonville Herkimer County’s Stillwater St Lawrence County’s Gouverneur It was the walk to the township/hamlet Redfield that put the most fuel on me to go after the mountain I decided that “I took out 1 Redfield in this state now I gotta take out the other” and it became my 1st solo mountain and my 8th High Peak out of the 15 that I had conquered(2 in 2013 and 1 in 2014) by the end of 2023 and this year I’m going to be extremely hard on the Adirondacks going after both mountains that I have and haven’t done and make Whiteface and Redfield the 2 High Peaks that I’ve done the most and every so often I might tackle their neighbors
@@JayMorrisonOutdoors this is the order of the High Peaks that I’ve done so far 1st. Whiteface 2nd. Giant 3rd. Marcy 4th. Algonquin 5th. Wrights Peak 6th. Porter 7th. Cascade 8th. Redfield 9th. Gray Peak 10th. Skylight 11th. Haystack 12th. Lower Wolfjaw 13th. Upper Wolfjaw 14th. Esther 15th. Nye
Try not to leave some lf the less desirable hikes until the end of your journey. They're all beautiful in their own ways, but some of them are tough to stay motivated when you know the trail is a slog and there isn't a view on the summit ;)
@@JayMorrisonOutdoors I’ll do Redfield again when I do Colden and then again when I do Cliff and I can go for a long time hiking in the woods in fact when I did Redfield I knocked out 3 other High Peaks in 6 hours of the 21 hour hike that I did that day
@@JayMorrisonOutdoors when I’m not hiking mountains I’m walking all over 2 counties and the edges on the neighboring counties side I’ve done 51 miles on foot in a day another time I did a 52.6 mile walk(I started at 7:30pm and continued until 2:30pm) with only 1 stop at the Oswego County’s Redfield’s gas station and now I got a 21 hour hike in the Adirondacks under my belt
I hiked Redfield October 25th 2023 alongside Gray Peak Skylight and Haystack and I did all 4 of them in 6 hours of the 21 hour hike that I did that day during a 2 day stay at the John Brooks Lodge starting at the Calamity Brook Trail Redfield I’ve now done twice
LOL not yet, but we've definitely heard strange things coming from the deep woods during the darkest part of the night on a couple of backpacking trips, so you never know ...
