A Birds Eye View After Irene

August 31, 2011

I Managed to get up in a plane today for a tour of the high peaks. Wow…

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Lower Wolfjaw

Lower Wolfjaw/Upper Wolfjaw

Upper Wolfjaw

Saddleback

Basin

Wright

Colden

Many people have been effected by this storms damage to there homes/business.

For those that are looking for a organization to donate money to consider:

Adirondack Community Trust / Keene Community Trust

Contributions can be made by check to: ACT/Keene Flood Recovery Fund.

Mail them to: Adirondack Community Trust, PO Box 288, Lake Placid, NY 12946.

For information about the fund contact Melissa Eisinger at 518-576-9904 or mel@generousact.org

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15 Responses to A Birds Eye View After Irene

A.J. on August 31, 2011 at 6:05 pm

Tremendous. Irene tracked right in path blazed by Floyd but delivered almost 50% more rain to the Adirondacks and the summer was already much wetter than ’99.

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dennis d on August 31, 2011 at 7:05 pm

Absolutely awesome pictures, Drew!! Totally fantastic. I lived at the loj when Floyd rolled through and I’ve been wondering what came down with Irene; this is unreal. I thought that Basin pic was actually Pyramid until I looked at Basin in your guidebook and realized what a huge part of that face slid with Irene. Unbelievable how long those slides ran in the Great Range and on Wright. Thanks for sharing, and good luck to your greater community in rebuilding your towns and their infrastructure!!

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ron kon on August 31, 2011 at 8:39 pm

impressive…………..mother natures selective ski trail process at its finest…………let it snow!

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- Keith on August 31, 2011 at 9:54 pm
  
  The Gov didn’t notice the pee marks but he was impressed my brother!
  
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Keith on August 31, 2011 at 9:53 pm

Thanks for the BETA. Right now my tips are going to those most effected. But I do appreciate your effort.

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JHaas on August 31, 2011 at 9:57 pm

Good to see that a few classics (trap dike, bennies brook) got a make over!

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Jeff Farbaniec on August 31, 2011 at 10:49 pm

Wow, thanks for posting those photos Drew. I was just looking at the Nippletop slide from Colvin on Sat, wonder what that looks like now…

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- adkbcski on September 1, 2011 at 6:53 am
  
  I didn’t fly by Nippletop but I don’t think it changed seeing from afar.
  
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AJ on September 1, 2011 at 5:40 am

I’ve been studying that Trap Dike picture for a while…it looks like it has filled in quite a bit. Am I crazy?

And that slide on basin…any sense of how high that its? I don’t have a sense of scale. The bottom half looks like an amazing cliff.

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adkbcski on September 1, 2011 at 8:57 am

Thanks everyone for chipping in to cover the plane cost.

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Seth C. Burgess on September 1, 2011 at 12:26 pm

nice photos!

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A.J. on September 1, 2011 at 2:36 pm

In checking out the East facing slope of Giant from across the lake it looks changed as well. Any word on whether that’s true?

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- adkbcski on September 1, 2011 at 2:47 pm
  
  I heard that Giant / RPR had some action on the east side but haven’t seen pictures yet.
  
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Kevin Normile on September 2, 2011 at 7:44 pm

Wow! Glad I made it up the trap dike in 2010, who knows what it’s like now. It does look filled in… incredible pictures!

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Philip Maynard on September 3, 2011 at 11:11 am

It looks to me like the Trap Dike has had basically all vegetation stripped. There’s quite a lot of dirt, and maybe choss and branches as well. But, I bet this winter will take care of that. It usually slides to some extent, and nothing scrubs like an avalanche. By the time the spring runoff has subsided, it might be the best climbing any of us have seen in the Dike.

Not to mention the directissima to the summit we’ve got this winter!

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