Here's a link to an interesting and fun story in the New York Times about the Adirondack Winter Forty-Sixers, an elite group of mountaineers who climb all 46 of the 4,000-foot peaks in the Adirondack mountains in upstate New York. Only 449 climbers have done all the peaks during calendar winter from December 21 to March 21 since 1962. After completing the peaks, each climber receives a special patch commemorating their achievement.
Read the story:
Conquering 46-Part Goal, Peak by Icy Peak by Liz Leyden
Photograph above: The summit of Whiteface Mountain, one of the highest mountains in New York's Adirondack Mountains. Photograph © Blue Line Pictures/Getty Images
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Actually, what a Winter 46er gets for accomplishing that feat is personal satisfaction, recognition by his or her peers, a mention at the Winter dinner and, their name added to the Winter section of the 46er’s web site. The Winter rocker patch must be purchased, but sometimes friends of the climber buy that patch and give it to the climber on the 46th summit.
I agree Bob. I know a few folks out here in Colorado that are working on doing all the Fourteeners during calender winter and after completing the list they get nothing…except the time of their lives and all those spectacular views and cold hands and feet and…well, you get the picture! Much better than a patch on the pack.