Peak Experiences: Danger, Death, and Daring in the Mountains of the Northeast

Contributors

Contributors Mary Ellen BaRoss has through-hiked Vermont’s Long Trail and the Appalachian Trail. She also completed The Grid—climbing each of the forty-eight White Mountain peaks exceeding 4,000 feet in every month. Todd Bogardus is a retired conservation officer supervisor for the Law Enforcement Division of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, where he served for twenty-four years. During his tenure Lieutenant Bogardus served as the state search and rescue coordinator and the Fish and Game Department ’s specialized search and rescue team leader, as well as being a director of the New Hampshire Outdoor Council. He was instrumental in the founding and implementation of the hikeSafe program. Steve Boheim is a New England Hundred Highest member, Adirondack 46er, and Catskill 3500 Club member who organized annual pilgrimages to Baxter State Park for many years. Donna Brigley has a long list of trails hiked, water bars cleaned, and peaks climbed with family and friends, but cherishes time spent in the wilderness alone. Melinda Broman was president of the Knickerbocker Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club, now merged with the New York Chapter. Susan Campriello was a reporter for Hudson-Catskill Newspapers. Rebecca Chapin was formally trained as a geologist and, through nature, discovered an inner calling as an artist, photographer, writer, and explorer. Peter Crane is curator of the Gladys Brooks Memorial Library, Mount Washington Observatory; a member of Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue; and serves on the board of the New Hampshire Outdoor Council. Donna W. Dearborn carries on the legacy of her energetic mother and recreationdirector father, who was forever curious about what was around the next bend. Marjorie LaPan Drake completed the forty-eight White Mountain 4,000-footers in four months, then hiked all the New England Fours. She was a trip leader for the Appalachian Mountain Club. Johnathan A. Esper is a Winter 116er and pursues his outdoor passions with Wildernesscapes Photography. John C. Goding left a comfortable job to work as a Peace Corps volunteer on the Thai-Burmese border, is married to Chiraporn, and has a daughter, Julia. Leonard H. Grubbs ran the Adirondack Forty-Sixers trail maintenance programs for many years, and was an instructor at the Adirondack Mountain Club’s Winter Mountaineering School for seven years. 328 c o n t r i b u t o r s Matt Harris has been in technical theatrical and television production for more than three decades, starting with community theater in Oyster Bay in 1977. John Hartford taught piano, played the harpsichord, and recorded the Goldberg Variations, which he considered his greatest achievement. He was completing the White Mountain 48 in calendar winter—in spite of cancer surgery that required a feeding tube. John passed away in 2011. Betty Maury Heald used to think that when she was forty, she’d be “down the tubes!” She and her husband Phil were the first married couple to achieve the Winter 111, at ages fifty-seven and fifty-eight. Betty was the second woman to do so, in 1985—finishing three days after Dot Myer. Marc Howes has hiked the 115 Northeast 4,000-foot peaks in winter, the hundred highest peaks in New England in winter, all 453 New England 3,000foot peaks, all peaks with over 2,000 feet of prominence in the Northeast, and nearly every 3,000-footer in the Catskills. Douglas W. Hunt is an AMC hike leader and co-led AMC’s Presidential Range weeklong hut-to-hut traverse for several years. He has completed climbs of the forty-eight White Mountain peaks exceeding 4,000 feet in each month and the sixty-seven 4,000-footers in New England. Teddy “Cave Dog” Keizer (www.thedogteam.com) has set eight climbing records across the country.He graduated from Brown University as student-body president with degrees in geology, biology, and political science. He is married to Ann “Sugar Dog” Sulzer; they welcomed a son in 2009 and a daughter in 2012. Michael N. Kelsey is a county legislator and lawyer who teaches at a private college. He also serves as a director at a mental health nonprofit and is a guidebook editor for the Adirondack Mountain Club. Susan P . Kirk was the fifth woman to complete the 111 Northeast peaks that exceed 4,000 feet in winter. She is a registered nurse. Kimberly J. LaPorte was raised in Central New York where she lives with her fiancé, Dan, and two sons: Ethan, four...