A quick recap.  I am working on hiking every mile of every trail within the High Peaks Wilderness of the Adirondacks.  This is going to the Red-line challenge, but I am going beyond what that challenge requires.  I am adding in all the herd paths, and all the trails that are on the easements.  Basically, everything that is numbered on the ADK map and in the ADK High Peaks Wilderness guidebook.  This adds about 50 to 100 more miles than the official challenge includes.

This coming holiday weekend, I'm going to be doing an ambitious hike to red-line a few more trails.  First, I am going to hike in to Panther Gorge from Elk Lake on the afternoon/evening of July 3.  Right now the weather looks like thundershowers, but nothing too bad.  This is going to be the first time I have ever hiked this trail, and the 8.75 miles will be interesting as it is going through Marcy Swamp, that supposedly has a lot of boards and low bridges that sometimes are out.  I'll be doing this with a full pack, twice.