Adirondack Peeks Summer 2023

CONTENTS 2

President's Report | Laurie Rankin #5525WV

4 Editors' Ramble | Sherry Roulston #12512, Kim Morse #11497 5 TALKING POINTS A Conversation with New York State Guide Mary Glynn on Her NPT Winter Finish | Sherry Roulston #12512 with Mary Glynn #9576 14 FROM THE VAULT Reflections on a 50-Year-Old PEEKS Article | Tony Goodwin #211 17 POEM Untitled | Victoria Challingsworth #8789 18 Romance Map 20 Climbing White Face | W. H. H. Murray 24 MOUNTAIN VIGNETTES Grandmother and Grandson Complete the Forty-Six High Peaks Together Our Personal Trail Angel | Joe Cascio #13893 One Man’s Fifty-Four Year Journey to Becoming an Adirondack Forty-Sixer | Bob Hartheimer #14140 Becoming a Forty-Sixer | Maija Igbo #14795

Between the Mountains | Megan (Betteridge) Soja #14692 I'll Pick the Trail Less Traveled | Rob Van Avery #10248W Never Too Late | Carson Sorrell #14098

34 2022 Finishing Class & Sketches 56 BOULDER REPORT | John Sasso #7130WV

57 DEC NEWS 58 CLUB NEWS 62 IN MEMORIAM 63 IN THE PACK 64 POEM

Cry for the Land | Andy Caruso #5822

64 LETTER TO THE EDITORS