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2019/07/14
Volcano Quest III - Glacier Peak
Volcano Quest III: the detailed report of our third (and hopefully final) attempt on Glacier Peak. Come and read if Rosty and Brian and I finally make it to the top....

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2019/08/24
The Dixes and Hough - An Enjoyable Horseshoe
An enjoyable big horseshoe around and over four of the five 46R peaks of the Dix Range. Highlights included many excellent lookouts peppered all over the ridgeline of the Dixes, and also the fun climb up the East Dix slide.

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2019/07/15
Yellow Aster Butte Trail - Mt Baker Snoqualmie NF
Brian and Andrew undertake a half-day hike up a great little (well, little for the North Cascades) peak in Northwest Washington State: Yellow Aster Butte.

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2019/08/18
Algonquin Loop via Avalanche Pass - Above the Clouds Hike
Another above-the-clouds work outing, this time a harder hike over Algonquin Peak and back through scenic Avalanche Pass. Rough trail in spots and a longer length than promised made this one an unexpectedly tiring adventure!

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2019/05/05
Incontra i Parenti 2019 - Italy, Avellino, and the Perugini Family
My 95 year-old mom accepts a sibling offer to chaperone her over to Italy for a family visit.

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2019/07/07
Jay Mountain
A beautiful summer day on the wonderful open ridgeline of Jay Mountain.

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2019/06/23
Skylight From Elk Lake
A deliberately long-way climb of Skylight, one of the Adirondacks' highest and remote peaks. All in the service of training Brian and I for an upcoming out-west trip.

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2019/04/13
UtaHatkotastica 2019
Join us on a desert sojourn in the desert southwest with the Hatko family - A Utahatkotastic adventure!

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2019/06/09
Catamount Mountain - Above the Clouds Hike
Another intro "above the clouds" outing with work colleagues, featuring more new Adirondack hiker recruits. Destination: the excellent intro peaklet that is Catamount Mountain.

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2019/03/17
Brian's Saint Patty's Phelps Climb
A surprisingly nice late winter day helping Brian bag Phelps Mountain as a winter 46R peak before the arrival of spring.

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2019/03/01
PUP Hike - Ampersand Mountain
A PUP-themed team-building outing to reliable, short and scenic Ampersand Mountain - the premiere close-to-Ottawa mountain hike!

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2019/02/23
Prep Hike 1 - Katie climbs King Mountain
A simple hike to give Chris' daughter Katie a bit of experience ahead of our upcoming spring Utah trip.

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2019/02/14
RSS Feed Now Available
A simple RSS feed is now available for this site. You'll now be able to get notified via feed readers or notifiers when new content is added to this web site. The feed is available at https://alavigne.net/rss_feed

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2019/02/10
Cascade Mountain
Another weekend, another work intro hike - this time up somewhat icy trails to the top of Cascade Mountain - one of the Adirondacks' premiere short climbs.

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2019/01/26
Hurricane Mountain - The New Route
An exploration of the new 2014 route up the south side of Hurricane Mountain.

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2018/05/31
Destination GerM2ny: The Pickup
Luke and Andrew's fantastic trip to Germany to receive a new car via 'European Delivery'. Motorsports heaven then ensues...

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2018/10/14
Bald Peak - A Leaf-Peeper Hike
A beautiful but slightly beyond-peak visit during fall foliage season to Bald Peak, a lower but excellent summit on the extreme eastern fringes of the High Peaks Region.

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2018/09/25
Tornado Outage
Damage and an extended power outage in the Ottawa area due to severe weather resulted in a disruption of the availability of alavigne.net over the last four days. Really sorry about the inconvenience. Back up and running now!

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2018/08/26
Mt Lafayette - Greenleaf-Skookumchuck Loop
A less-frequented loop up a much-frequented mountain: beautiful Mt Lafayette - the prominent General of the western White Mountains of New Hampshire. Beautiful weather, scenic lookouts and vantage points -- as well as an extended walk above treeline -- were the highlights of this great hike.

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2018/08/11
Catamount Mountain - Perseids Overnight
The Perseid Meteor Shower - a classic of the dog days of summer. Everything lined up for another one of my on-a-mountaintop overnighters, this time on Catamount. Successful?

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