Peaked Mtn. Pond and

Peaked Mt. Pond,  located near Indian lake.  Thirteen pond trailhead.

I've made the trek north to get away from the masses and stresses of the southern state.   Had some time yesterday to hike so I got on Bing Maps and looked for my most promising pin point.  I've been dreaming about hiking Peaked Mt. pond for months now.   The rock shown on the map is very impressive.  Tons of definite huge blocks, waiting, untouched.  Peaked mtn pond is very close to Indian lake, so I was hoping by some miracle the rock was featured like snowy.   Not the case.   Hiked in one hour on a nice trail, then wandered around for five minutes and sure enough was greeted by giants abound.  Boulders ha, I mean huge, house size and overhanging on all sides.  My psyched quickly turned to disappointment,  not one of them had any resemblance of a hold.  Even if there where holds they soon ran out to sections of fifteen to twenty feet  blankness.  If one, just one, of the hundred blocks was well featured it would be worth the hour hike in it's self.  No worries, none of them are!  Sad, sad story this Adk park is,  I'm losing hope that there's still good new stuff out there.  So many days of hiking with nothing to show but choss and blank walls.  Somebody tell me I'm wrong please, better yet, show me!

The chill is in the air and I'm deeting on it!

murph

Baxter Mountain Disappointment ...

Hiked up Baxter last weekend and can say that the rocks I found are both dirty, and poorly featured. I didn't stray far from the trail to find more rock but from what I saw, the holds didn't look like they had much potential.