CLIMBING THE SUMMITS THE ADIRONDACK FORTY-SIXERS
CLIMBING THE SUMMITS
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FOR ALL OF THE ASPIRING AND ACCOMPLISHED 46ERS
ADK46ERS: A HISTORY 03
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THE 46 HIGH PEAKS
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HIKING THE PEAKS
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ADK46ERS: A HISTORY
Dedicated to protecting and reserving the wilderness character of the High Peaks region
wilderness character of the High Peaks region Dedicated to protecting and reserving the
IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS THE ADIRONDACK FORTY-SIXERS
he Adirondack Forty-Sixers, Inc. is a hiking and service club whose members have climbed the summits of the 46 peaks over 4,000 feet in elevation in the Adirondack mountains of northern New York state. The organization is dedicated to protecting and reserving the wilderness character of the High Peaks region and sponsors a variety of programs on the conservation principles of “If you carry it in, carry it out,” and “leave no trace.” In coordination with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the club supports an active all-volunteer trail maintenance and trail adoption program. The Forty-Sixers maintain a long-standing tradition of corresponding with those hikers who are seeking membership. Hikers are assigned a correspondent who serves as a mentor throughout their quest to become a 46er. Information on how to become a member is available on the How To Join page.
THE FIRST THREE 46ERS The history of the club dates back to the 1920's, when only twelve of the 46 peaks had trails (but no trail markers and few signboards to guide hikers), when large expanses of forest that had been denuded by the timber industry and scarred by logging slash and ravages of fires, and when one could spend all day hiking, and not see another person. A key inspiration for many of the first recreational climbers was the work of Adirondack explorer and surveyor Verplanck Colvin, whose annual reports, composed in thrilling, occasionally purple prose, offered a compelling account of adventure and transcendent immersion in the wilderness. Brothers Robert (Bob) and George Marshall and their friend and guide Herbert Clark were the first to climb the 46 high peaks in this environment that would seem unfamiliar to today’s hikers. They began their quest with a climb of Whiteface Mt. on August 1, 1918, and finished on the summit of Emmons on June 10, 1925. Since then over 7,000 people have followed in their footsteps and have registered their climbs to become Adirondack 46ers. Among those smitten with Colvin’s hyperbolic narratives were two teenage brothers whose family spent their summers at Knollwood, a compound of family camps on Lower Saranac Lake. In 1918, George and Robert Marshall, along with Herbert Clark, a local man employed by the Marshall family as a guide, climbed Whiteface; this was the first major peak for all three, followed by a few more ascents that summer. In 1920, Robert and George
decided to climb all the four-thousand-footers (forty-two, according to their calculations) and invited Clark to join them. By end of 1921, these three had climbed them all, with several first ascents (they reclimbed Mount Emmons in 1925 after discovering they never made it to the summit the first time). This was an era of minimal trails and sketchy maps, and the Marshall family did not own a car. The Marshalls and Clark often would row from Knollwood to the foot of Lower Saranac Lake, walk to the train station to catch a ride to Lake Placid, and then hike to South Meadow on a dirt road to reach the High Peaks. In 1922, the recently established Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) published a descriptive pamphlet by Robert Marshall, The High Peaks of the Adirondacks. Russell M. L. Carson, a Glens Falls businessman and Adirondack enthusiast, then spent a few years researching the fortytwo peaks described by Marshall and along the way added four peaks that had escaped the Marshalls’ count (these four were quickly climbed by the Marshalls and Clark). All forty-six were discussed, with histories, details of trails and shelters, and other information in Carson’s Peaks and People of the Adirondacks (1927; reprinted in 1972 and 1986).
EXPANDING THE CLUB The lure of the Adirondack High Peaks spread to hikers throughout the Northeast. In order to include hikers beyond the greater Troy, NY area, it became apparent that the Troy group needed to expand their reach. With the blessing of the Forty-Sixers of Troy, the inaugural meeting of a new club named the Adirondack Forty-Sixers took place at Adirondack Loj on May 30, 1948. Twenty people attended that first organizational meeting. The group elected Grace Hudowalski as President, Kay Flickinger as Secretary, and Adolph “Ditt” Dittmar as Treasurer. The rest, as they say, is history. The organization grew from being a social club whose members hiked for fun and adventure, to an enterprise that is integral to the care and preservation of the region. Today’s Forty-Sixers play the dual role of “hiking partners, mountain stewards.” The club continues to mentor hikers and register their climbs. In addition it coordinates and supports a number of educational and conservation projects aimed at maintaining the wild character of the High Peaks region for future generations of hikers to enjoy.
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ADK46ER TIMELINE HISTORY OF THE 46ERS 1830-2000
1874
1872
State Legislature authorizes expenditure of $1000 to Colvin “to aid in completing a survey of the Adirondack wilderness of New York
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1830 1836
Whiteface first ascended by Professor Emmons
1840 1837
Marcy and Algonquin first ascended under leadership of Professor Emmons
1850
1860
Colvin reported: “Unless the region be preserved essentially in its present wilderness condition, the ruthless burning and destruction of the forest will slowly, year after year, creep onward... and vast areas of naked rock, arid sand, and gravel will alone remain to receive the bounty of the clouds and be unable to retain it”
1880
1870 1873
1877
Skylight first ascended by Colvin, Peck, Phelps, and McKenzie
Basin first ascended by Colvin and Phelps
1875
Gothics first ascended by Colvin, McKenzie, and Phelps
1885
The legislature adopted legislation establishing the Forest Preserve (FP) stating that the land “shall be forever kept as wild forest lands” This was the start of protecting the Adirondack wilderness
1890
1900
1910 1918
Robert and George Marshall and Herbert Clark climb Whiteface [First ADK46ers climbing their first High Peak]
1972
Forty-Sixer volunteers participate in summit seeding projects on the summits of Algonquin, Wright, and Colden organized by Dr. Edwin Ketchledge (#507), a botanist who studied trail erosion and the degradation of the alpine summits due to recreational use and developed methods to correct ecological damage
1937
Grace Hudowalski becomes the first woman to complete the 46 peaks The hiking club, the Forty-Sixers of Troy, is formed. It is mainly comprised of Ed Hudowalski's Sunday school class
1958
The club publishes their first book The Adirondack Forty-Sixers
1940/41
The Forty-Sixers of Troy submit petitions to the State Board of Geographic Names for the official and permanent naming of Blake’s Peak, Couchsachraga, Mt. Marshall, Mt. Phelps, Mt. Emmons, Gray Peak, Mt. Wright, Mt. Algonquin, and Mt. Boundary
1932
Ed Hudowalski leads his Sunday school class on their first hike, a backpacking trip to climb Marcy, Basin, and Saddleback
1920
1940
1930 1925
1935
The Wilderness Society is founded by Robert Marshall
1971
First official canister and register log is placed on the summit of Mt. Emmons
1950
Ed Hudowalski and Rev. Ryder complete the 46 peaks on Dix
1960 1949
The Forty-Sixers host the Esther Centennial, a two-day celebration commemorating the first recorded ascent of Mt. Esther and place a palque on Esther’s summit rock
1936
Grace Hudowalski and Glenn Fish meet with representatives of the State Department of Environmental Conservation to discuss the club’s proposals for conservation and education projects
1950
1939
Robert and George Marshall and Herbert Clark finish the 46 peaks with Mt. Emmons
The first Forty-Sixer Wilderness Leadership Workshop held at Marcy Dam to provide youth group leaders with information on planning successful and environmentally responsible hiking and camping trips
The Forty-Sixers host a Haystack Centennial hike to commemorate 100th anniversary of the first ascent on the peak by Orson Phelps, Almeron Oliver, and George Estey
1948
The inaugural meeting of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers is held at Adirondack Loj
1970
1989
The Summit Steward Program is created by Dr. Edwin Ketchledge
1980
1963/64
1978
The club begins to publish its newsletter "Adirondack Peaks," which is mailed to its members Robert Marshall helps to make the Wildeness Act into law
1996
1973
Plastic litter bags designed and purchased by the Forty-Sixers are distributed at select trailheads for the first time to alleviate litter issues in the High Peaks
Club's volunteer trail maintenance program is formalized and Jim Goodwin is appointed Trailmaster of the Forty-Sixers to coordinate the club's trail improvement project
Forty-Sixer trail maintenance program joins with ADK and DEC to establish the Trailless Peaks Committee and develop a plan to establish enivronmentally suitable paths on the trailless peaks and provide minimal maintenance to prevent further environmental damage
1990
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2000 1990
Club recognizes hikers who climb all 46 High Peaks in the winter with a "W" after their climbing number and a specially designed winter patch
2014
US Board of Geographic Names approved a petition to rename East Dix to Grace Peak in honor of Grace Hudowalski
THE ADIRONDACK PARK IS THE LARGEST PARK IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, BUT IT IS NOT AN ISOLATED WILDERNESS. SINCE ITS CREATION IN 1892, THE ADIRONDACK PARK HAS BEEN A “PEOPLED” WILDERNESS: CURRENTLY 130,000 RESIDENTS OF 102 TOWNS AND VILLAGES LIVE WITHIN THE PARK’S BOUNDARIES.
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ROBERT MARSHALL
LIKE MOZART IN MUSIC AND KEATS IN POETRY, BOB MARSHALL PACKED AN ASTONISHING QUANTITY OF EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENT INTO A SHORT LIFE AND HAS BEEN ELEVATED TO NEAR MYTHIC STATUS BY GENERATIONS OF FOLLOWERS.
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Born into a prominent New York City Jewish family (his father, Louis Marshall, was a distinguished lawyer who played a key role in the passage of the milestone “forever wild” amendment to the state constitution in 1895), Bob would endure anti-Semitism off and on throughout his life. He first encountered the Adirondacks in 1901 at the age of 6 months, when he was brought to Knollwood, the family summer camp on Lower Saranac Lake. The Adirondacks would become a magnet for the rest of his life. When he was 17, Bob, George and their ever-congenial guide, Herb Clark, began climbing all the Adirondack peaks over 4,000 feet high (some turned out, by later measurements, to be less than that elevation), often on marathon hikes. Unwittingly or not, they inspired the creation of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers and the legions of hikers who have followed in their footsteps. Bob enrolled in the New York College of Forestry in Syracuse (today’s SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry) and later earned a master’s degree in forestry from Harvard and a Ph.D. in plant physiology from Johns Hopkins. He took a job with the U.S. Forest Service, eventually rising to head forester for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and chief of recreation for the Forest Service. Meanwhile, beginning in 1929, he spent considerable time north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska. His 1933 book Arctic Village is considered one of the best of its type despite its descents into romanticism.
DEFINING ASPECTS In 1935, he organized the Wilderness Society, still a leading advocate for preservation. Part of the impetus may have come from a chance meeting on top of Mount Marcy with Paul Schaefer while Marshall was in the midst of a one-day stroll over 14 summits. Despite his remarkable stamina, Marshall died in 1939 while riding an overnight train from Washington, D.C., to New York City; he was only 38. The cause of death, while never determined for a certainty, was presumed to be heart failure.
“I love the woods and solitude. I should hate to spend the greater part of my lifetime in a stuffy office or in a crowded city.”
THROUGH FRIENDSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS MARSHALL HELPED TO MAKE
THE WILDERNESS ACT IN 1935 COFOUNDED THE
WILDERNESS SOCIETY
Writing in Smithsonian magazine some years go, Donald Dale Jackson proposed that “only Thoreau, who was one of [Marshall’s] heroes, and Aldo Leopold, a friend and fellow founder of the Wilderness Society, belong on the same eminence with him (as a writer)—and neither had his talent for politics.” Marshall was both a lyrical portrayer of nature’s wonders and a champion for laws safeguarding them. While disagreements about the best views could enliven campfires into eternity, Haystack takes first place, “primarily because in the whole vast panorama visible from the mountain there is virtually not a sign of civilization.” This was another defining aspect of Bob Marshall— the less civilization,the better. Here was a man who, after being cornered by a grizzly in Montana, expressed dismay that the bear didn’t find him fit enough to eat.
INTO LAW IN 1964
CONGRESS SET ASIDE OVER 1 MILLION ACRES IN MONTANA, ONE OF THE MOST PRESERVED MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS AND NAMED IT
THE BOB MARSHALL WILDERNESS
As a preservationist, Marshall spoke out for roadless areas long before that phrase entered the political lexicon. No one was spared the force of his convictions, especially as he grew older and more sophisticated in his thinking, and his writings on wilderness preservation are among the most influential ever crafted. He takes on foresters who wanted to open the Adirondack Forest Preserve to timber cutting (elsewhere it has been said of him that he respected everybody except loggers); advocates of building cabins in the Preserve; and the state conservation commissioner over the construction of truck trails that allow what Marshall called “mechanical” access to the backcountry. If the truck trails were permitted, he wrote in 1932, “the Adirondack wilderness is in the utmost danger of extermination.” One wonders what he would have to say about ATVs and snowmobiles were he alive today. As with Mozart and Keats, and all who blaze brightly and then flicker out too soon for us, we can only guess what Marshall would have accomplished—what shorelines might still be wilderness, for example —had he lived out a more typical lifespan. But perhaps, like the others, he did twice as much in half the time as average people, and was done.
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GRACE HUDOWALSKI
GRACE HUDOWALSKI (1906-2004) IS REMEMBERED BY MANY FORTY-SIXERS AS THE LONG-TIME HISTORIAN OF THE ORGANIZATION AND FOR THOUSANDS OF INSPIRING
PERSONAL
LETTERS SHE WROTE TO CLIMBERS DURING THEIR QUESTS. SHE PLAYED MANY ROLES OVER A LONG LIFETIME WHOSE CONSTANT THEME WAS ENJOYMENT, PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS. Grace was born in Ticonderoga, New York and raised in the foothills of the Adirondacks. She began climbing the High Peaks in 1922 at age fifteen when she ascended Mt. Marcy. By 1937, she had become the first woman, and ninth person, to complete all forty-six High Peaks. Outdoor recreation was generally viewed as a masculine pursuit in the 1930’s and 40’s, but Grace helped dispel this by setting an example and by encouraging other women to climb the mountains. Grace was a founding member of the Forty-Sixers of Troy, a hiking club that started in 1937 at the Grace United Methodist Church in Troy New York. The pastor, Ernest Ryder, was inspired by the hiking exploits of Grace and her husband, Ed. Ernest encouraged the newly-fledged club and gave it its name, "Forty-Sixers". Members were expected to hike up at least one High Peak per year and, at Grace’s urging, they set the unique objective of recording their experiences in the mountains as an historical record.
“THE MOUNTAINS MEAN SOMETHING
DIFFERENT AND SPECIAL TO EACH
WORLD WAR II During World War II, Grace took a war-relatead clerical job in Albany, and concurrently assumed the role of editor of the Cloud-Splitter, the journal of the Albany Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK). The latter role allowed her to advance an agenda of increasing importance: preservation of wilderness values. Some of the threats at the time included destructive lumbering practices, industrial pollution and excessive development including proposed ski centers. If hiking was considered a masculine domain at the time, fighting for wilderness values was even more so. It took all of Grace’s energy and tenacity in combination with her credibility attained through hiking, to prevail. She became embroiled in some of the earliest defenses of Article XIV, the famous “forever wild” clause of the New York State constitution. Various interest groups lobbied for amendment of the clause to allow developments to their economic advantage, but Grace, armed with knowledge of the implications acquired first-hand through backcountry hiking, debated leaders seeking such amendments and succeeded in maintaining the Article and the Forest Preserve that it protected.
After the War, Grace did not return to being a housewife as was customary among women of that time, but accepted a posting with the Commerce Department of the State of New York to promote tourism in the region. She continued this role from 1948 until her retirement in 1961, with such success as to be honored for her contributions by the New York State Legislature in 1986. Grace was instrumental in expanding the initial Forty-Sixer club’s membership beyond Troy and formalizing the club. She was a founding member of the Adirondack Forty-Sixer Club, Inc. and served as the club’s first president from 1948 to 1951. Following her term as president, she became the club’s secretary and historian, a position she held until her death. Grace had three great loves: the mountains; good writing; and young people. One of her memorable initiatives was an essay contest, under which she awarded prizes for the best essays written on an Adirondack theme by Schroon Lake High School students from 1957 to 1974. This contest has recently been revived in memory of Grace. Grace’s legacy lives on thanks to the Adirondack Forty-Sixers Conservation Trust, which she endowed upon her death. The Trust funds initiatives showing the spirit of conservation of the Adirondacks that Grace espoused during her lifetime.
PERSON. THEY ARE WHAT
CONNECT US AS A GROUP. BUT THE
JOURNEY IS AN INWARD ONE, LEARNING
ABOUT YOURSELF” IN HER HONOR, EAST DIX WAS
RENAMED GRACE PEAK
FIRST WOMAN TO CLIMB ALL 46 PEAKS
SIXTY YEARS AS THE CLUB'S HISTORIAN
77%
GRACE'S TIME AS CLUB HISTORIAN
COFOUNDER OF THE TROY 46ERS
MENTOR TO THOUSANDS
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JIM GOODWIN
Jim Goodwin saw himself principally as a guide, a status he treasured not for the money but for the shared joy. Good thing his career began before the AMGA policies manual: Jimmy tacked a notice on the bulletin board at the Interbrook Lodge when he was eleven years old. At fifty cents a day for trips to Porter ledges and a dollar for Giant Mountain, he had lots of takers. Of course, his rates would jump when he began guiding Mount Marcy. In 1922 it would cost a full two dollars to hire a seasoned twelve-year old for a trip up the state's highest peak. With somewhere around two hundred ascents, Goodwin wrote that Marcy had become "a Holy symbol" for him. In 1995, he joined the extended Goodwin clan up there, children and grandchildren, for a commemorative hike.
GOODWIN IN THE WAR 19 HIST.
GUIDING
BEGAN HIKERS UP THE HIGH PEAKS
AGE ELEVEN
AT FOR FIFTY CENTS PER PERSON
Goodwin made several trips west to the American and Canadian Rockies, and as the nation entered the war years, he signed up for "the ski troops," later formalized as the 10th Mountain Division. Goodwin recollected that, up to that point, he'd "rappelled three or four times...and driven three pitons." But his growing mountain resume and his membership in the America Alpine Club earned him an invitation to be an instructor for the mountain troops. Jim began his Army teaching career in the Army at Camp Hale in Colorado before moving with his wife Jane into a little cottage at Seneca Rocks, West Virginia, where the cliffs would swarm with recruits and the Face of a Thousand Pitons would earn its name. Shortly after he was finally called into battle as a medic, the 10th stormed Riva Ridge and took Mount Belvedere in Italy. The campaign was costly to the Allies and the Germans alike, and Goodwin would look back with satisfaction that he didn't pay much attention to the color of the uniform when attending to a wounded man.
TO THE MODERN ROCK AND ICE CLIMBING COMMUNITY, HE WAS A LEGENDARY PIONEER. BUT TO THE HUNDREDS WHO JOINED HIM AS CHILDREN TO HIKE THE ADIRONDACK TRAILS, JIMMY GOODWIN WAS SO MUCH MORE.
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A GROWING INFLUENCE After the war, Jim Goodwin resumed his career as teacher at Connecticut's Kingswood School (now Kingswood-Oxford), summering in the Adirondacks, where his influence would grow for decades. IN 1978 APPOINTED
TRAILMASTER OF
THE FORTY-SIXERS TO COORDINATE THE CLUB’S TRAIL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
PRESIDENT OF
THE ADIRONDACK TRAIL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY FROM 1875-1987
Goodwin brought people together by quietly stepping into the background. He'd happily carry two packs if that would make a little boy's day easier. If a youngster left a mitten at the last lean-to, Jimmy would run back a mile to pick it up without the troop noticing that he'd dropped out of sight. Jim Goodwin found more meaning in designing and cutting a trail than in putting up some high-end rock route. In fact, he'd often qualify a climb with apologies, such as "it was a damned-fool thing to do" or "those boys would have been killed if I had fallen... Thanks to God's grace, I didn't take anyone with me into the next world." Jimmy Goodwin, after 101 years in this world, has gone to the next. But he's very much alive in the eyes of generations of Adirondack mountaineers who know that singing makes a trail shorter and that fried Spam makes a life richer. They know that their hiking boots will eventually dry (even after a rainy week in the Sewards) and that there's more joy in sharing a skill than in flashing it.
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DR. EDWIN H. KETCHLEDGE
IN AUGUST OF 1968, DR. EDWIN KETCHLEDGE FINISHED CLIMBING THE 46 HIGH PEAKS OF THE ADIRONDACKS AND RECEIVED HIS 46ER NUMBER, #507. DR. KETCHLEDGE (“KETCH”) WAS NO ORDINARY PEAK-BAGGER. He was a professor of botany at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) in Syracuse, an active member of the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK), later a President of the 46ers, and a researcher very much interested in the fragile ecosystem found on the Adirondack High Peaks. He was veteran of the 10th Mountain Division’s Italy campaign. Surviving that experience inspired Ketch to live a meaningful life. He dedicated himself to Adirondack conservation, botany and teaching. 21 HIST.
ALPINE ECOSYSTEM Dr. Ketchledge began experimenting ways to help the alpine ecosystem recover from trampling caused by hikers in 1967. His research began on the summits of Dix Mt. and Mt. Colden. He began by transplanting Deer’s hair sedge, one of the rare alpine species, to see if it could successfully colonize impacted areas. It could not. His next work involved test plots with fertilizer, non-native grass seed, such as Kentucky bluegrass and Red fescue, and plots with both the fertilizer and the grass seed. Fertilized alpine soils did little, unfertilized non-native grasses sprouted and died, but fertilizer plus grass seed yielded success. These non-native sod patches were able to stabilize the soil, preventing further erosion, and allowing the alpine plants an opportunity to grow back. Non-native grass species were unable to survive the harsh alpine environment, and, over time the alpine species began to recover.
IN 1967 WROTE AN ADIRONDACK FIELDGUIDE, FORESTS & TREES OF THE ADIRONDACK HIGH PEAKS REGION
LEAD THE MOVEMENT TO
RESTORE THE ALIPINE ECOSYSTEM TO ITS NATURAL STATE
IN 1989 CREATED THE
SUMMIT STEWARD PROGRAM
He authored one of the essential Adirondack field guides, Forests & Trees of the Adirondack High Peaks Region, first published by Adirondack Mountain Club in 1967. He understood the Adirondack landscape in both paleo and poetic terms. “The forests we see around us now are unique; they have no analogs in the past. Interglacial conditions have been here for only 40 tree generations of time,” he wrote. “The outwardly stable forests we see in our human lifetime are more correctly understood as dynamic populations of competing species, adjusting as necessary over centuries of time to variations in the proverbial balance of nature: that so-called ‘balance’ is more truthfully an episodic teeter-totter!”
SUMMIT STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM In 1989, he gathered a group of individuals from ADK, the Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy (ANC), the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the Adirondack Forty-Sixers, and other interested parties to talk about creating an educational presence on the summits. Out of this meeting, the Adirondack High Peaks Summit Stewardship Program was born. The Summit Steward Program today is a partnership of ADK, the Adirondack Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. Its mission is to protect New York’s alpine habitat through education, trail work, and research. Ketch inspired many with his message of stewardship for the alpine summits. He introduced students, stewards, volunteers, and many hikers to the beauty and fragility of the alpine zone. Some got involved by carrying grass and fertilizer to the summits during his restoration efforts. Some became Summit Stewards, volunteers, or alpine researchers. Others simply chose to heed his message while above treeline and share it with others.
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CUMMULATIVE ADK46ERS 1925-TODAY
= 250 46ERS
1925
1935
3 ADK46ERS
5 ADK46ERS
1975 1,294 ADK46ERS
1985 2,206 ADK46ERS
634
TOTAL WINTER 46ERS TODAY
WINTER CHECK THE DEC'S SITE (DEC.NY.GOV) TO FIND OUT ABOUT AVALANCHE OR STORM WARNINGS BEFORE STARTING. KNOW THE SYMPTOMS FOR FROSTBITE AND HYPOTHERMIA
1945
31 ADK46ERS
1995 3,854 ADK46ERS
1955 103 ADK46ERS
1965 343 ADK46ERS
2005 5,743 ADK46ERS
640% GROWTH FROM 1975 AND 2014
2014
8,288 ADK46ERS
FALL THE FOLIAGE PROVIDES A SPECTACULAR BACKDROP FOR HIKING. PANTHER MOUNTAIN IS A RECOMMENDED HIKE SPRING TRAILS ARE WET AND MUDDY, BE CAREFUL. TRAILS WILL HARDEN MID-JUNE SUMMER THE MOST POPULAR SEASON TO HIKE IN THE ADIRONDACKS. EXPECT TRAILS TO BE CROWDED
“A 46ER is not something you can buy or join, its something you become”
-JIM WEEKS