Adirondack Peeks Winter 2023

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS When I read the recent issue of PEEKS (which I very much enjoyed), I was reminded of my son, Lincoln “Mac,” #6064, and my finishing on Whiteface. I had left Whiteface for our last climb because I thought my then 95-year old mother might enjoy being driven up when we did. She didn’t drive up, but, I believe, we had a unique experi ence. In another life, I was the on the top of Whiteface, they had two additional members in their party—a Virginia state trooper and Tim Kaine, then Virginia’s governor. I have always suspected, but do not know, that the seven of us had a distinction, namely, being the only 46ers to be greeted by two governors on our final mountain. Am I wrong?

The picture is of the seven of us on Whiteface. I do NOT have a picture of the 10 of us—seven new 46ers, two governors, and one state trooper—because it was only over time I realized we had had an “un usual” occurrence in being joined by not only one, but two, governors. Dr. Roger Hull, #6065

lawyer for the Governor of Virginia. Each year, he would take the train to Schenectady, and I would drive him to Manlius, NY, to visit and have din ner with his daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren (Tayloe, John, Davy, Elizabeth, and Carter). During one of our dinners, we discovered the Loftus family and my son and I were climbing the 46. One year we were all in the 20s; the next year, we were in the 30s; and then we were all four short, with Whiteface on both lists, so we decided we would finish together on Whiteface. While my mother didn’t drive up, my former boss, Lin Holton, did. And, when the Loftus family joined us (Mac and I had to do Esther first)

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