Tag: MtWashington

By Randy Pierce It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves --Edmund Hillary Two opportunities are looming ahead: one for me and one

By Randy Pierce It was July 4, 2010 and we were sitting on boulders outside Lake of the Clouds on Mt Washington This was our first

By Randy Pierce “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of

By Randy Pierce Reflecting upon the incredible highlights of our 2012 hiking season for 2020 Vision Quest, I am overwhelmed with the

By Randy Pierce …And now, part 2 of our hike on Mt Washington, Monroe, and Eisenhower! Read Part 1 AMC Hut Life The “higher huts”

By Randy Pierce “If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from

By John Swenson My job this past weekend was to guide a blind man on his journey up Mt Washington and several other Presidential Peaks I

By Randy Pierce Independence day 2010 marked the first official 2020 Vision Quest hike We experienced an amazing sunset beside Lake of

by Randy Pierce I wanted to share a personal reflection on an article I read in the news yesterday The article talks about the tragic

by Tracy Goyette Hiking with Randy and the large 2020 team translates, understandably, to very little “couple time” for us on the

by The Mighty Quinn Well that was quite the excursion! I could probably generate quite a few pages of observations from my four-paw

by Carrie McMillen So by now you've read some of the details of our momentous weekend on various posts and blogs I wanted to offer a

by Randy Pierce Achieving the summit of Mount Washington on our Inaugural 2020 Vision Quest hike was a tremendous success Reaching the

by Randy Pierce An endeavor of this magnitude is potentially life-transforming The reality did not disappoint at all I'm home safe and

by Jenifer Tidwell Washington is a mountain of many moods You don't know how the mountain will behave on the day you show up at the

by Carrie McMillen So, as we get ready for the BIG HIKE up Mt Washington, a few of you have asked, "How are we preparing" Personally, I

by Carrie McMillen Mt Washington is a daunting hike for anyone, with sight or without When Randy asked me to lead him and a close group