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Saturday Jun 28, 2014 #
Hiking 8:00:00 [4] 18.0 km (26:40 / km) +1340m 19:26 / km
Algonquin - Iroquois - Wright from Adirondack Loj
Sunny and mid 70's again. This turned out to be the big climb of the weekend
Left HPIC at 0710 heading toward Marcy Dam, took the Macintyre Range trail towards Wright, past the Whale Tail Trail and Macintyre Falls, climbing pretty consistently. About a half-mile after Whale Tail the climb started getting steep, and by the time I passed the Macintyre creek cliffs it was pretty much rock scrambling the rest of the way. Took the Wright Peak trail and climbed mostly bare rock to the summit at 0950. After breakfast and a bunch of picture-taking around the summit and B-47 crash debris, headed back down the rock slides to the trail, took a left and headed to the even-steeper Algonquin trail. Hit the Algonquin summit at 1120. Spent a half-hour drinking coffee, chit-chatting with the Summit Steward (Kayla), and having a light snack before heading down to the Boundary/Iroquois herd path.
Iroquois is another "trail less" peak, but the herd path is not only unmistakable, but once you're on it it's so narrow it would be almost impossible to get off of it even if you wanted to walk around the Alpine Bog. Went over Boundary Peak and hit the Iroquois summit at 1230
Had the Iroquois summit to myself for a while, but couldn't locate the summit marker. Dave said there was a USGS marker but didn't see it. The one on Algonquin was pretty easy but eroded. Headed back to Algonquin then retraced the main trail back to HPIC at 1635
Sunny and mid 70's again. This turned out to be the big climb of the weekend
Left HPIC at 0710 heading toward Marcy Dam, took the Macintyre Range trail towards Wright, past the Whale Tail Trail and Macintyre Falls, climbing pretty consistently. About a half-mile after Whale Tail the climb started getting steep, and by the time I passed the Macintyre creek cliffs it was pretty much rock scrambling the rest of the way. Took the Wright Peak trail and climbed mostly bare rock to the summit at 0950. After breakfast and a bunch of picture-taking around the summit and B-47 crash debris, headed back down the rock slides to the trail, took a left and headed to the even-steeper Algonquin trail. Hit the Algonquin summit at 1120. Spent a half-hour drinking coffee, chit-chatting with the Summit Steward (Kayla), and having a light snack before heading down to the Boundary/Iroquois herd path.
Iroquois is another "trail less" peak, but the herd path is not only unmistakable, but once you're on it it's so narrow it would be almost impossible to get off of it even if you wanted to walk around the Alpine Bog. Went over Boundary Peak and hit the Iroquois summit at 1230
Had the Iroquois summit to myself for a while, but couldn't locate the summit marker. Dave said there was a USGS marker but didn't see it. The one on Algonquin was pretty easy but eroded. Headed back to Algonquin then retraced the main trail back to HPIC at 1635