Adirondack Peeks Summer 2025

SR: How did your writing career start?

TG: My father encouraged me to write a piece for the Adirondac after I and five others from Williams College had skied from Long Lake to Adirondak Loj over the course of four days. After I came back from the army, Adirondack Life magazine contacted my father and asked him to look for people around the park who could write a ski tour article. So, I wrote up a route that could theoretically be skied. That was the first time I wrote for a commercial magazine and was paid for it, so I was inspired to write more for them and that was the start of my writing career. I expanded from there to the ski touring guide and then ultimately the High Peaks Guide. SR: In 2011, You wrote the Introduction to the 46ers book, Heaven Up-h’isted-ness! The History of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers and the High Peaks of the Adirondacks. The book was dedicated to your father as well as to Ed Ketchledge, #507, and Glenn Fish, #536. I would imagine the book must feel like a family heirloom to the generation of family members who have contributed to trail building and the preservation of the Adirondacks. Was your father honored by this dedication? TG: I don’t know whether he was informed in advance that the book was going to be dedicated to him or whether it

Climbing in Switzerland in 1965 on a trip with Trudy Healy (46er #148). Her two youngest children were along, and Tony acted as a sort-of babysitter.

Tony and his brother Peter (6) on Basin in 1958 on their first traverse of the Great Range. Tony is pictured on the left. The dog was named Pluto.

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