The last time I went to get these peaks, I had driven through horrible snow and the nerves just got bad enough that my body determined that it wasn't happening that day. I hiked in to marcy dam and turned around. This attempt, I came in from upper works. It was a very wet day, and was predicted to be a wet day with on and off drizzle in the morning and warming temps in the afternoon. The drive in had a couple spots of black ice, but it wasn't a horrible drive in.
At this moment, I have 19 high peaks left to complete my winter round of 46. I went out on the first day of winter and got Colden, and found that winter hiking is what I remember, and did better than I expected on the hike. That is good because I have a bunch of long hikes ahead of me. At the moment, this is what I have left, and my concerns on each of the hikes.
My next trip will have a lot of hiking and hit 13 peaks over a week. The first 3 nights I'm saying at ADK Loj, so I'll have a soft bed and shower available each night. The next 3 nights, I'll be in the backcountry, hopefully at Lake Arnold, camping.
So my next trip is going to involve camping and forming a base camp to hit a total of 8 mountains.... well, actually, potentially forming 3 base camps. This is to hit everything that comes out of the Upper Works/Tahawas area of the park. The plan is to hike in to the flowed lands or lake Colden and set up camp.