Adirondack Peeks Winter 2024

IN MEMORIAM We remember those Forty-Sixers who are now climbing the Celestial Hills.

James Severino #3761 Alton W. Smith #3055 Jon F. Stevens #288 Herbert "Hal" Wise #13518 Ralph Worthington #9904 Sandy Yellen #6314

Mary Austin #6524 Robert B. Cave #2025 Robert F. Clements #1258 Caroline Dawson #889 Nancy Desormeaux #14437 Edward C. Dewar #3274

John J. Eastlake #2085 Joan E. Hasselwander #3247 Thomas M. Hayhurst #6122 Irene McCarty #5516 Richard Nicholas #515 Marilyn M. Schust #3644

Things Best Shared (and where I will find you) Tracey B. Laszlo, #7281

Sauntering Being Curious Comfortable chair and Happy Hour in the woods Plant Identification In Memory of Mary M. Austin, #6524

Well hung Hammocks A paddle in a Hornbeck Brookside Lodge last updated in 1970 Peeper sightings Sunrise chorus of birds Searching for the perfect backpack

Northern Lights Naming Things Finding bugs and creatures Noonmark Turnovers Cedar Run frozen Meals and Scones Discovering new words that describe a love for the woods Revisiting Favorite places Winters bluest sky after a fresh snowfall Freshest spring green Falls blazing colors, the rustle of leaves underfoot and the smell of returning to the earth Baileys Watching sports (preferable women’s) Colors of a Sunset View from a Mountain Peak

The smell of ADK air (arriving home) Call of a loon in the early morning mist Thrill of an FOS Dew on a field of spider webs Random Facts Stars in the night sky over water miles from just about everything Owls in the night or day A bench with just the right height, seat room and angle for reclining Trust Complete and utter silence

Your Stardust will be with us always until we meet for adventures we have not yet imagined And I will add….. I’ll be the first white throated sparrow you hear in spring….. the thrush that welcomes you to the woods……. The winter wren daring you to find me

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