Adirondack Peeks Winter 2023

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President's Report | Laurie Rankin #5525WV

4 Editors' Ramble | Kim Morse #11497 with Sherry Roulston #12512 5 TALKING POINTS A Conversation with Suzanne Lance | Sherry Roulston #12512 with Suzanne Lance #1802WV 16 POEM Forty-Six—But Who’s Counting? | Bill McKibben 17 With Your Help | Bill McKibben 18 A Recount with Bill McKibben | Sherry Rouston #12512 19 FROM THE VAULT First Trip | William H. Lance 22 "Hitch-up, Matilda!" | S. R. Stoddard 26 MOUNTAIN VIGNETTES MacNaughton #47 | Chris Martin #12391W #47—Sat. July 20, 1985 | Ralph J. Ferrusi #2023 46er for Life | Brian D’Amour #3292

Then and Now | Marcia Wentworth #2231 The Mountain of God | Jim Coyne #3815V Five Decades and the New England 111 | Dan Ladue #2694 No Title | Corinn Julow #14073 First Mountain | Christopher S. Hughes #2791 The Trees by the Trail | John Swanson III #14369 Mt. Marcy | Maria Aldrich ff fi Almost Cli and Red eld: June 17. 2023 | Ron Kirschbaum #14955 ff and Redfield: June 17. 2023 | Ron Kirschbaum #14955 The American Dream Hike | Ray O’Conor #6909

Mom Triumphant | Ben Christenson #11223 Unlikely Occurance | Jim Cooper #1605

48 CLUB NEWS 59 IN THE PACK 60 IN MEMORIAM 61 POEM

At the Split of Street and Nye | Tim Hoppey #ASP26342

62 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS