Adirondack Peeks Winter 2025

CLUB NEWS PEOPLE & PEAKS 2025 - A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE ORIGINAL 46 Bob & George Marshall and Herb Clark Adirondack History Museum, Elizabethtown, N.Y. F orty-sixers came together to celebrate the centennial of the first three hikers to climb all 46 high peaks and to discuss the hikers’ impact on the preservation and

conservation of the Adirondacks, as well as their bearings on the ultimate formation of the Adirondack 46er organization in 1948. The list of speakers and titles of each talk were as follows: Grace Tells the Story — Ron Konowitz, #487V SKI Russ Carson: 4 More Summits — Doug Arnold, #4693W Bob Marshall: Wilderness Icon — Peter Slocum, #3368 Herb Clark: Champion Adirondack Guide — Sharp Swan, #566WV Meeting George Marshall — Suzanne Lance, #1802WV P. Fay Loope, Herb (Burt) Malcolm & the 46ers of Troy: What Happened Next — L. John Van Norden, #2110W 2025 ADK 46ER TRAIL MASTER REPORT Mark Simpson, #6038V W e need to start out with a huge thanks to those who came out and made 2025 a very successful season! A total of 94 individuals (an increase of four from 2024) will have worked about 2,200 hours (less than 2024 due to the lean-to build we did in spring of 2024) on 26 work days. On the herd paths, volunteers logged additional hours. In May, we started with our blowdown sweeps and drainage clearing of our regular trails in the Dix Range and on Giant and Whiteface mountains. Due to weather conditions in May, we could not sweep the trails in full as planned but we were able to get volunteers back up there in June and July to finish our work. The last weekend of May this year we started a new event at Elk Lake Resort as part of a cooperative work weekend. Fourteen volunteer names were picked from a hat and were treated to full accommodation and meals over the weekend. These volunteers were joined by the rest of the crew over the two days and we swept blowdown, drainage and side cutting around the perimeter of Elk Lake, Clear Pond, Lightning and Grandpa Pete’s Hillstrails. We hope to expand this experience in 2026. As a side note, we worked every weekend in May — and every weekend it rained. The Saturday of the Elk Lake

Barbara Smorgans Marshall, Suzanne Lance, Roger Marshall

A segment of the half mile of new trail build done by this crew on Cascade Mountain -Credit - Justine Mosher

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