www.PeteWilk.comSince moving down to West Virginia in 2009, Paul and Lauren haven’t been back to do any climbing in their old stomping grounds of the Gunks. When I heard that they were planning a autumn visit to New Paltz I was very interested. Since Paul left I haven’t been able to climb with anyone at […]
For a while I’ve been wanting to do a challenging hike a bit longer than the usual 10-12 milers. I recruited a few of my friends and we decided to do a late season Presidential Traverse. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, we weren’t able to make that happen. So instead we did a 23 mile, two […]
I haven’t had too much time to post recently, though that doesn’t mean I’ve been all work and no play. In the weeks since I posted last I’ve done some hiking and lots of climbing. Usually it has been Friday night after work trips to the Gunks to camp. Saturday we start the day early […]
Many of my friends know that I collect beer bottles. I’ve got quite a few. Not sure how many but probably in the 300-400 range. I started taking pictures of them so I could share them here and to preserve them in case I need to get rid of them. Thus far I’ve photographed about 200. […]
The weekend of July 10-11 I was supposed to travel to the Gunks with Chrystal for some climbing. Unfortunately weather didn’t look good and Chrystal had some work stuff pop up late Friday afternoon. We rescheduled for the next weekend, July 17-18. Another friend from Sikorsky, Andrew Brookhart, also committed to the trip for that weekend. Chrystal’s […]