Tag: blind hiker

By Randy Pierce “While the optimist, pessimist and realist were debating the fullness of the glass, the opportunist snuck in and drank

By Randy Pierce No blind man had ever done the NH 48! As such, doing it in winter--or more dramatically, a single winter--was a tremendous

By Randy Pierce “You made it seem easy!” I heard this sentiment from a few folks in celebration of our accomplishment of climbing the

By Randy Pierce Just as many thought we were flying to the finish, our winter quest seemed stalled at 41 of 48 peaks Wind and weather held

By Randy Pierce The quest Quinn and I have undertaken this winter is simple in concept We are attempting to join a very elite group of

By Randy Pierce Our winter hikes on the “NH 48” have begun in earnest and have been very successful so far We have already

By Randy Pierce The holiday season is upon us--with all the joy, excitement, and yes, potential pressures of the times I very much wanted

By Randy Pierce This winter, Quinn and I plan to undertake some hikes of the 48 4,000-footers in New Hampshire Hiking them in the winter

By Randy Pierce “Tiny” Tecumseh seemingly defeated us when we had to cancel our final hike of the season for a variety of reasons

By Geri Hayes I’m trying to remember my expectations of this hike in the weeks prior to the actual event Randy and my husband Bob had

by Randy Pierce A mostly new group of Outdoor Education students with the University of New Hampshire signed up for a backpacking trip

The actual quote is, “It would be humiliating to lose to a blind guy!” and it comes from a commercial for the series Expedition

By Randy Pierce "Why do you hike" is one of the most common questions asked of many hikers The answers are as diverse as the people being

By Randy Pierce We met just beyond the infamous hairpin turn of the Kancamagus Highway in the Hancock parking area For many 6:45 am cannot

In planning our August 13 hike of the Hancocks, we intended to undertake a considerable distance in a single day, and it seemed likely

by Randy Pierce When I first thought to undertake the "48” back in 2010, it was intended as a leisurely ten-year goal This was, in part,

by Randy Pierce Our July New Hampshire heat wave is not untypical, nor is the choice to seek some solace from the heat by hiking amidst

by Randy Pierce There are many reasons this was the most daunting hike to date The weather forecast did not help much, as thunderstorm

by Randy Pierce Prior to this year's hiking schedule, my collective knowledge of Whiteface and Passaconaway could fit into a single

by Tracy Pierce Our hike of Mounts Whiteface and Passaconaway on June 18 & 19 was a fantastic success We completed the