2008 TRIP REPORTS
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2008 TRIP REPORTS |
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POKOLOAF By, Anthony Rizzo The hike, Pokoloaf, was fantastic! Joey and Johnny Mac were the best counselors for the trip. We first hiked Pok-O, which was fun, but tiring. Then from there, we went through a swamp in which we kept falling and got muddy. Then we went to Sugarloaf, which was much easier. Finally, we got back to camp. The trip was over.
BOQUET RIVER CANOE By, Malte Schmidt We were canoeing. We were swimming. We played Frisbee. And we had a lot of fun. My favorite game is Frisbee. I’m not so good in Frisbee, but I can swim good. We had fun playing.
CANOE/ROW/KAYAK/FISHING LONG POND By, Riley Hollis On July 1st, everybody in camp did either a hike or a fishing and boating trip. I went on the fishing trip. I caught a fish on my first cast. We fished for awhile and then went to Indian Rock and ate. Then we kept fishing until the end. It was fun.
PORTER and CASCADE By, Matthew Hepworth On July 1st 15 of us arrived to the trail and we began to go on the trail to Porter and Cascade. It was a long, steep and muddy trail. It seemed like the hardest part of the trail. The after an hour, we chose to do Cascade first. It was very rocky up and steep at the top but has a beautiful view. After that, we headed down and began up Porter. It was very muddy and there we managed to avoid most of it. After a nice rest, we began our descent down. The whole way up and down took four and a half hours, but it was a fun trip.
ADV Skylight, Redfield, Cliff By, James Schott We started from ADK and packed in 6.3 miles to the Feldspar lean-to. The next morning we woke up at 4:44 AM and got out by 6:22. We made out way up Skylight and got to the top at 7:33. From there we bushwhacked through the thick pines for about 3 hours. Sometimes it got so thick that we couldn’t see our feet let alone the ground. Eventually we got to the top of Redfield, and then we took the herd path down the mountain. After that we pushed to the top of Cliff and had a 1:00 lunch. We got back to the lean-to by 3:11 and rested there till dinner. The next morning we woke up at 4:11 and packed out and got back to the van at 8:33.
Tabletop By, Andrew Gonzalez When we did Tabletop and Phelps, we were all excited. The excitement died because of a 12 minute van delay. We got to ADK lodge and started the pack-in. We stopped at Marcy dam and ate gorp! We made our way up the Van Hoevenburg trail to the herd path. We reached the summit at about 1:30pm with lunch there too. We didn’t have time to do Phelps so we packed on out to the van.
Sugarloaf By, Nathan Blum and Dominick Rizzo For our trip we hiked “Sugar shine” otherwise known as sugar-loaf and Poko-Moonshine. First we walked from our home at camp, past roads, through unknown woods, and to the base of Sugarloaf Mountain. Next, at the top of Sugarloaf we snacked on some homemade trail-mix overlooking the fantastic view. We hiked down and then walked on a long road to the base of Poko-Moonshine. We then ate a lunch of Bagels and then, finally, hiked up the long, steep terrain of the mountain up there, the view was amazing. We could see Lake Champlain, Sugarloaf, and other peaks. Then we hiked down, and had a relaxing ride in a big van back to camp.
Boquet River Canoeing By, Hannah Farrell.CIT We started down the River around eleven. After a hard-core hour of canoeing, we arrived at our “beach” where the temperature was in the 90’s and the sand hurt to step on without sandals. Wading also took place, in addition to the life jackets and giggles from witnesses. After 3.5 hours in the excruciating heat we faced yet another hour canoeing back to where we deployed. A special thanks to Meaghan and Rebecca Ryba.
Wilderness Adventure By, Matt Hepworth At 5:00 pm we all gathered at the bog and dock house near the canoes. We were to be leaving to embark across the lake but not to the famous Indian rock…we went to grusse(?) Notch after 5-10 minutes…[of canoeing]…we arrived ..[?]…most of our canoes…[?]...tied the others together to the shore. We hiked about 1 mile [?] ..to our campsite then set up our tents at ..[?]..we waited an hour and dinner was ready, it consisted of Mac and cheese and spam, after this we roasted marshmallows on a fire after much relaxation we went to bed. Unrealized by us one of the tents of ours set up on a slope so it rolled over in the middle of the night. We woke up at 7:30 and had oatmeal and chocolate scrambled pancakes. We then packed up our tents and packed our bags and canoed back to Poko.
Hurricane By, Peter First the pioneers had to get a rowboat. Once they got a rowboat they rowed to Indian rock. Once they got there they stood on the rock. Then the counselors put up tents. Then we had games. Next was the best part…DINNER! We had Mac and cheese and spam. Then we had s’mores. Next was bed. The next morning was crazy. I slept in. Then we had breakfast. It was oatmeal. Then we went back to camp.
The Santanonis By, unknown The sky was blue and the sun was shining when we embarked on our journey. Though our packs were heavy we got to our campsites in a few hours. We immediately began unpacking and preparing dinner. After a good night sleep our group: James, Caitlin, Annaka, Madeline, Eva, Kevin, Matt, and Rachel departed from the lean-to towards duck hole. At last, once the boys had encountered many bees, we realized we had turned the wrong way and had to retrace our steps. The herd path we were supposed to take was eventually found, but the dissent was very steep and difficult. Time square, the junction, came into view and we had to make the decision to do just Santanoni and Panther. We sped to the tops and enjoyed the fabulous view while we ate our pepperoni tortillas. The trek down was muddy and rocky. But after a long day it was an amazing feeling to sit in the van and slip off our boots.
Big Slide Day 1: It was a beautiful Wednesday afternoon for a hike and we were pumped. Only problem was, we weren’t about to climb Big Slide. It was about 4.00pm when our group of campers met up with the counselors, Mike and Antonio. After we got everything together we got into a van and drove off to our destination. It was about an hour drive to the parking lot at the start of the trail. We got our things together and started walking down an opposite trail that led to the leantoos. When we reached our lean-too we started thinking about food. We got out the stove and turned it on. It didn’t work. So we tried again and the same thing happened. We were about to give up when a hiker came around. We asked him if he might have a stove we could use. He gladly let us use his and we had a wonderful dinner of kuscoo, chicken and flavoring.
Day 2:we woke up bright and early at 6.30am, made a fire, cooked, and ate oatmeal and SPAM. After this we packed up and left for the parking lot. When we got there we dropped off our full packs and put on our day packs. It took about 5mins to un-pack and then we started on the trail. It was an easy and beautiful hike that took about 3hours and 30mins. On the way we found some wild blueberries, which (of course) we didn’t eat. When we got through the 3 Big Brothers and to the top of Big Slide we ate lunch and rested. After 45mins we started the trek back down, which (by the way) seemed much quicker. Actually, because we went so fast we got back to the parking lot 30mins early. So In the meantime we played cards. When the van came, we were so relieved that we could get off this mountain. It was a great hike and I think we could all agree that we had a lot of fun. – Alex Strauss
ADV Whiteface/Esther We arrived at the trail at 9.50am. We saw a Lincoln van where we parked. We then hike up Marble Mountain. When we got to the junction we went up Esther. We took a short break on Esther and made our way over to Whiteface. On the way we met the Lincoln hikers. We got to the top and ate a short lunch. We got back to Marble Mountain and then ran down to the van. We got back to the van and the Lincoln van was still there so at least we beat the Lincoln in hiking. – Ted Gertner
Rock Climb The first Poko Rock expedition went off without a hitch. Leaving camp @ around 5.30pm we headed for Livseyland. 30 beautiful acres complete with a pine stove and a secluded campsite right on the Boquet River. After a dinner of Tuna Macs and a Smores dessert the group went to bed early to rest up for an early start and a full day of rock climbing. The morning brought bluebird skies and the group was ready for an adventurous day. We hiked up to Owls Hedd, a rock peak that sits above the Town of Keene and below Cascade Pass. We had beautiful views of Porter and Cascade and climbed Splitter Ohorthosite on the summit of a peak. The route required crack climbing technique that was developed over the day. We finished the day with a rappel and a lovely walk back down to the van.
Rock Climbing After arriving @ the Phillips Spring Wall we found a group of 30 people occupying just about every route. Rather than try and set a rote in where we could. The Poko Mac group pioneer routes up a seldomly climbed if climbed at all wall. We had the slab to ourselves and climb 3 distinct routes with several variations all of which held good quality friction climbing on solid rock. We finished the day with everyone rappelling from the top of the crag, a good time was had by all.
Sewards Day 1: Departed camp and arrived at parking lot without incident. Encountered cannibals but escaped with our lives. Arrived at camp in early evening, treated our wounds, ate dinner, and went to sleep in the blueberry lean to.
Day 2: Awoke 4.20am and ate a hearty breakfast. Got moving around 6.00, hit the top of Seward before 8.00 or something like that. Hiked to Emarrons and back, getting Donaldson on the way and fighting off a heard of giant cathirarong bats. Went back to the road, ate, then proceeded up Seymour. Returned to camp by 6.00, tended our wounds, buried our deads and ate a hearty meal of bat before going to sleep.
Day 3: Woke up late, ate slow, and set out by 9.45. On the way I encountered Indiana Jones and The Fellowship of the Ring, fought off several thousand orcs and made it back in time for water trampoline wrestling.
Giant/Rocky, via Hopkins Raining, not a good omen but that didn’t effect the ADV. We had a pretty long, steep pack-in over Hopking mountain to get to our lean-to at the base of Giant we made dinner as soon as we settled into the lean-to. Wake up, 4.11am, we got out by 6.00am and started the backside of Giant. We made the top, WHAT A VIEW. Rocky was just the same. While returning to camp fatigue set in, but we trucked on. 5.7 mile pack out to a much needed van ride.
ADV DNCBS
Six men, five mountains, two days, of course the presumptuous ADV. First day was a short 2.5 mile pack-in to our camp site at Gill Brook. Macaroni and tuna then a nice sleep. Morning came and by 4:30 Maxx and Schott decided to get all 5 mountains by dinner. While we cruised down to Elk Pass after cruising Dial and Nippletop. We couldn’t wait for lunch on Colvin. We started for Flake after a much needed 45 minutes lunch. We were all feeling fatigued as we neared sawteeth, the back of it. Steep and VERY painful we finally made it. Going back to camp, one more painful assent over Indian head. Camp won’t Camp, it was nirvana. A long sleep in and a short pack out. Another score for the ADV!!!
ADV Range Trail
On Monday our elite squad of 6 ADV members and 2 very experienced and intelligent counselors (Alex C. and Billy R. ) hiked in a tranquil 3 miles to our camp site where we set up tents and ate some delicious Mac and cheese. Alex had a brilliant idea to watch the sun rise on top of haystack so we woke up at 12:30 and then hike the beginning of the range. The sunrise was beautiful and we were flabbergasted by the view. We hiked the rest of the range and by the end of the day we had reached our 7th summit. It was one of the best trips ever mostly because Alex and Billy are some of the coolest counselors this camp has ever seen and our wilderness experience we gained was so magnificent. ADV ’08.
Mystery Swack II—Callen Fullerton
This mystery swack started off with 3 ADV’s, 2 CIT’s, Kenny, Greg, Joe, and I (intermediate) waking up at 5:15 and driving to a herd path by the side of the road. After hiking on the herd path for a couple miles we bushwhacked up …[??] the ridge. From there we bushwhacked Spotted and ate lunch at the top. Next we made our way from rock to rock up to the top of East Dix. We took pictures and just as we started down the steep slide it started to rain. All of us slipped a couple times but soon it stopped raining and we found the herd path. We hiked down past a swamp with the biggest beaver dam I have ever seen. Finally we reached the van and drove back to camp. It was the hardest hike I’ve been on but it still was lots of fun.
The Ode to Julia Backus-A mystery shwack
We went on a mystery shwack-us Up lower Wolfjaw-us. The sky was clear as we climbed up the slide We continued up to the trails side Stormy the sky started to look-us So we all had to move our tuck-us We had some lunch on the top And left when the rain clouds started to pop We hit a lean-to and took a nap-us Finally we got to cuddle with Julia Backus Out we hiked and Cal got stung We hit a waterfall and has some fun We solved our Mystery The rest is history!
A2 + W (Allen, Algonquin, Wright) Hiked to Allen, dropped our packs up to “A prime” so we could relax. Back to our campsite so we could eat. That couscous was Shiefer-fine. Thought of playing a game of cops and “Roberts.” When we slept we heard Ginty snores. Upon awaking, Ryba yelled “Gitler bags together!” started full packing Algonquin, but suffered from Bergmania. At the top we got a Sprague of water down to the junction an ascended Wright. Ranger reported , “Ya’ll are sick.” Got so hot, we ran into some shade. Finally got down to make history oh what a trip, oh what a journey.
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