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This blog is an extension of a journal I started documenting my hikes. The journal is just a blank book that I've filled with my thoughts while hiking. It was started to have proof that we, Kendall my finance and I, actually started (and hopefully will finish) the Glens Falls Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club's Firetower Challenge.
Most Adirondack hikers go for the big goal, aiming to become a 46'er by summiting the highest mountains in the massive ADK park.
The challenge was to get people off the eroded/over used paths of the high peaks and onto lesser, but just as beautiful mountains. Firetowers, as their name hints at, were perches from where spotters would spy fires and report them before they consumed too much of the forest or surrounding towns. The airplane replaced them and they started rotting. Now groups have sprung up around the state to preserve these towers and restore them to their original beauty. The great thing is that there is a veiw from everypeak, and they are often short day hikes.
I was a journalist for a couple of years, and I took one of my journal excerpts and intertwined it with an interview with an author of a book about the towers and some history for a large section cover of the "Out and About" section of the Press Republican in Plattsburgh NY.
My most recent hike was with a buddy and his friend (now my friend) up Lyon Mountain, just outside of the town with the same name. Since then, the mountain and surrounding land have been bought by the state. I did a search for groups who might be springing up to save the firetower, which is in pretty rough shape, but I couldn't find any. (photos above) That made me think of writing this blog. Maybe someone out there who wants to work on this tower will do a search and find me. If enough do, maybe we can save that tower and the beautiful view. If not, I still can include this address with my application to get my patch for the firetower challenge instead of mailing out my journal, which I've grown fond of.
Cheers.
Most Adirondack hikers go for the big goal, aiming to become a 46'er by summiting the highest mountains in the massive ADK park.
The challenge was to get people off the eroded/over used paths of the high peaks and onto lesser, but just as beautiful mountains. Firetowers, as their name hints at, were perches from where spotters would spy fires and report them before they consumed too much of the forest or surrounding towns. The airplane replaced them and they started rotting. Now groups have sprung up around the state to preserve these towers and restore them to their original beauty. The great thing is that there is a veiw from everypeak, and they are often short day hikes.
I was a journalist for a couple of years, and I took one of my journal excerpts and intertwined it with an interview with an author of a book about the towers and some history for a large section cover of the "Out and About" section of the Press Republican in Plattsburgh NY.
My most recent hike was with a buddy and his friend (now my friend) up Lyon Mountain, just outside of the town with the same name. Since then, the mountain and surrounding land have been bought by the state. I did a search for groups who might be springing up to save the firetower, which is in pretty rough shape, but I couldn't find any. (photos above) That made me think of writing this blog. Maybe someone out there who wants to work on this tower will do a search and find me. If enough do, maybe we can save that tower and the beautiful view. If not, I still can include this address with my application to get my patch for the firetower challenge instead of mailing out my journal, which I've grown fond of.
Cheers.
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