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MT RAINIER

Dawn Kim on her recent trip to Mt Rainier! (Dawn is in red)
"I did summit - but more importantly, I learned a lot and had fun."
Now that's the right attitude to have!
Way to go Dawn!!
Congratulation's from The Mountaineer Team!

STAFF HIKE 2009

Every year The Mountaineer staff goes for a fall outing. Its usually either hiking or rock climbing. This year we chose to hike up the Ridge Trail on Giant Mountain. The fall foliage was just starting to pop and views were amazing up to around 3500 ft when we entered the clouds.

SKI TRAIL MAINTENANCE DAYS

Help with ski trail work! The Adirondack Ski Touring Council in conjunction with the DEC will be conducting trail maintenance on the Mt. Marcy ski trail on September 26-27 and the Wright Peak ski trail on October 3. Meet at the High Peaks Info Center (Adirondack Loj) at 8am if you are able to help.

BANDANA AT CASCADE CREST 100

On Aug 29-30, 2009 Adirondack Trail Running Club member Matt Greenberg from Wilmington Delaware finishing his first 100 Miler at The Cascade Crest 100 in Washington Sate in 29:23:13!

BANDANA IN THE TETONS

Teo Jackson, Lucas Milliken and Eliot Neal on the summit of the Middle Teton.

BANDANAS ON RAINIER

Hi Vinny,
It's Tracy Hoffman. We were just in talking to you about my Rainier climb. I wanted to send you these pics from my Rainier climb with my friend Amy Dalessandro.
We wore our bandanas all the way to the summit but it was way too windy and cold to take off our helmets. Here we were at ten thousand feet.
Thanks and be well,
Tracy

Tracy Hoffman

Amy Dalessandro

BANDANA ON MT. WASHINGTON

Hi it's Zach again. We hiked Mount Washington with the "Seek the Peak" event on July 25th. It is a hike to raise money for the weather observatory on the summit of the mountain. You will never believe what my dad and I had in Tuckerman's ravine on the way down. A SNOW BALL FIGHT! There was still snow at the bottom of the ravine by the water fall. We hiked up the Lions Head Trail and came down the Tuckerman's ravine trail.

MOUNTAINEER TRAVEL MUG IN PERU

Chuck Boyd sent us this picture of his Mountaineer travel mug on a recent trip to Peru. He is now in need of a new mug because he gifted this one away to a local!

Bandana at the Vermont 100

Jan Wellford, Drew Haas and Alison Haas at the Vermont 100 Mile Trail Run

Great Adirondack Trail Run 2009

Yesterday was the 5th Annual Great Adirondack Trail Run.

As always fun was had by all and it's a great way to kick off the summer.

Up and Over Hopkins Mountain

The finish line for some crazy 3.5 milers!

Obviously he can't read the sign!

"My dad said he would disown me if i didn't beat Nick Yardley... so I did!"


The GATR is a benefit event for the Ausable and Boquet River Associations.

Wet conditions prevailed on both courses but the racers persevered! The 11.5 mile mountain course was altered this year with a additional climb over Spread Eagle Mountain.
Mens overall 11.5 mile winner was once again George Adams
Womens overall 11.5 mile winner was Serena Wilcox
3.5 mile mens winner was Peter Muessig and the womens was Mel Frazer.

Races "rehydrating" at the post race festivities

It's a family affair... yes all six of them ran the 3.5 miler!

11.5 mile mens winner George Adams hoisting the trophy

Racers picking out prizes

RESULTS

ALONG THE AUSABLE BLOG POST

THE "GARAGE SALE" GRAND OPENING!

Today is the grand opening of "The Mountaineer Garage Sale"!
Just down the road from our retail store is a old renovated gas station across from the Valley Hardware.


We have turned "The Garage" into our own little outlet store!

We have all of our sale merchandise and more down there for sale at 30% off the regular marked price!

Come on down and shop big discounts on Patagonia, The North Face, Marmot, Outdoor Research, Mountain Hardware and much, much more...

2009 Mountainfest Water Bottle in the Sierra

SLC all around good guy "BK" sent us this picture from Rock Creek Canyon, California, in the Eastern Sierra's.

Summit Of Rainer!

Our good friend Mike "Kaz" Kazmierczak sent in some photos from
his recent trip to Mt Rainer.

Summit!

Skiing Muir Glacier

Good job Kaz!

BANDANA ON THE NPT

The picture was taken at the Duck Hole Lean-to on my last night out hiking the Northville-Placid Trail. The gear worked great, thanks!

-Ali Buchanan

Famous Quotes in Mountaineer History

In January 1995 famed climber Jeff Lowe was visiting the Adirondacks teaching ice climbing.

Jeff refers to a good ice axe placement as a "portable belay".

One of his clinic padawans was The Mountaineers Chuck Bruha...

And while on thin ice with no protection during a difficult first ascent Chuck asks Jeff...

"So tell me the truth Jeff, is every stick a belay there?"

This great quote in Mountaineer history is captured in Jeff's instructional video, "Waterfall Ice".

BANDANA IN AFGHANISTAN

Local boy US Army LT Jacob Kerr (right) on patrol in Afghanistan.

New Mountaineer Sponsored Trail Running Club

The Mountaineer has co-sponsored the recently formed "Adirondack Trail Running Club". Teamed up with other co-sponsor www.ADKTRAILRUN.com this new clubs goals are to bring trail running enthusiasts together for group runs, camaraderie at organized races, organization of trail races in the Adirondacks and good old fashion "dirty" fun.
For more information about the Adirondack Trail Running Club visit this link

11th Annual Adirondack International Mountainfest - 2007

Mountainfest 2007 brought Canadian alpine legend Barry Blanchard back to Keene Valley. If you don't know who "Bubba" is then wake up and git with it! Along with guest instructing he gave a retrospective slideshow about his life in alpinism. We also had New Hampshire hard man Freddie Wilkinson spend the weekend teaching and entertaining with a slideshow as well.

Barry and some of the Mountaineer drones

Did you take picture at 2007's Mountainfest? If so email them to The Mountaineer and we will add them to the blog.

Chuck's Party

Chuck!

This Saturday The Mountaineer's friends and family gathered for a surprise party for longtime employee Chuck Bruha. If you don't know Chuck he is the elder salesman of the team. He is recognizable by his pepper colored hair (ie. grey), moustache, eyeglass's and arms that have a mind of there own. Chuck has been at The Mountaineer for 25 years this year! Anyone who has worked in the outdoor retail business knows that that's impressive. 

We managed to trick/lure him after work down to The Trail's Inn where many people were gathered for a big "SURPRISE!" Like with any party there was plenty eatin, drinkin, and laughin.

Gray grilling, Vinny blabbering and Pelkey doing quality control!

Vinny serving up the ribs...YUM!

Matt the human garbage disposal.

Then time came for a little "Roasting" of Chuck, stories, fan mail, and photos brought many laughs. 

Vinny, George and Shirley reminiscing about Chuck.

A good sport that Chuck is...

Chuck ready for the next 25 Years!

Congrats!

12th Annual Adirondack International Mountainfest - 2008

The weather for Mountainfest 2008 was miserable to say the least. Warm temperatures and rain preceded the weekend and continued throughout the event. For the first time in the history of our humble festival we had to cancel clinics due to dangerous and lack of ice to teach on. The advanced clinics were all cancelled but the mountaineering, beginner and avalanche clinics were held. 

As always we were fortunate to have some great guest climbers for this weekend. International climbing legend Doug Scott traveled from England to give a amazing slideshow spanning his career in alpinism, amazing! The tales of his Ogre "epic", descending thousands of feet with 2 broken ankles were grizzly to say the least. Saturday night featured a Newfoundland slideshow for regional hotshot Joe Terravecchia. Making everyone "oohh" and "aahh" with picture after picture of remote big ice across the border in Northeast Canada

Doug Scott and company after his slideshow.

Mountaineering/Slide Climbing Clinic participants learning the ropes.

One happy Adirondack climber.

More Mountainfest pictures on NEICE.COM

Did you take picture at 2008's Mountainfest? If so email them to The Mountaineer and we will add them to the blog.