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Big Slide was sweet, a lot of steep bare rock to scramble up.

The view from Big Slide: Gothics and The Range.
 How do you get over THERE?

Colden, finally

I finally got Colden. It would have been easier two months ago. There was rain, rotten snow and mud... but no black flies, yet. It was an intense, wet, foggy, cold trip. It made me really happy.

And this one advanced my standing with the Adirondack 46ers... http://www.adk46r.org/

...I am now ONE peak past the halfway point :D

Big Slide, next, I think.

The Mouth of a Stranger

Your love

Should never be offered to the mouth of a

Stranger,

Only to someone

Who has the valor and daring

To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife

Then weave them into a blanket

To protect you.

Hafiz (c. 1320-1389, Persia)

Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

from The Gift