Two years ago, four of my friends and I attempted the Presidential Traverse: a formidable hike that links together eight peaks in the White Mountains of New Hampshire: Mounts Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Monroe, Eisenhower, and Pierce (and sometimes Jackson). The hike didn’t go well. We were thwarted by gastroenteritis, impenetrable fog, and a thunderstorm that forced us to bail halfway. I vowed to return. Continue reading The Traverse Traversed
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The Treacherous Traverse
Hiking things that are difficult:
- Completing miles 11-12 of a long hike
- Carrying a 20- or 30-lb backpack
- Teetering on jagged edges of unstable rocks
- Downclimbing a steep rockslide, -2000 ft over 1 mile
- Finding trail markings in dense night fog with <10 ft visibility
Hiking that is downright treacherous: Doing all of those things simultaneously. Continue reading The Treacherous Traverse
Belize Spring Break? more like Spring Ache!
Five of my med school buddies and I set off to Belize during spring break. We were determined to make it as EXTREME as possible. For eight days, in eight different ways, we pushed ourselves to the physical limit and placed ourselves in mortal danger. In fact, I was so busy trying not to die that I couldn’t actually take photos properly. Let’s see how that happened. (I may be exaggerating a little) Continue reading Belize Spring Break? more like Spring Ache!
The Infamous Snowshoe Hike
Were you here at Weill Cornell med school, you’d probably be hearing rumors flying around about the snowshoe hike that went down this weekend. As one of the nine hikers, let me tell you our story. Continue reading The Infamous Snowshoe Hike
The Midnight Hike
What better way to celebrate the end of the Brain and Mind unit than to exercise our bodies by returning to the wilderness? Well, that’s what a group of second years thought (I didn’t finish BAM, just tagged along), and so out we headed to Breakneck Ridge in the Hudson Highlands State Park for a midnight hike culminating in watching sunrise at the summit. Continue reading The Midnight Hike