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   ADK Leader Profiles: Mary Coffin
maryMary, a retired teacher, has been leading group trips since 1975. For many years as a teacher she led student groups on weekend trips and ten-day excursions including hiking, skiing, camping, cultural and educational sightseeing and S.C.U.B.A. diving.

She joined the ADK Extended Outings Committee in 1988 and graduated to adult groups. Her trips have both a recreational and educational focus. She is motivated to lead trips not only because she loves to travel but really enjoys sharing her travel experiences with others and seeing others enjoy a new adventure.

Recent trips have included hiking in western National Parks, canoe camping  in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters and Algonquin Park (Ontario) and a Four Corners theme (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado) involving archeology of the early Native Americans and cultures of modern Native Americans.

Mary also is a frequent leader for shorter Onondaga Chapter trips and an active trail designer and maintainer locally and in the Adirondacks.


ADK Trip Resume as leader
  • 2008   Hawaii Hiking and Nature Study
  • 2007   Missouri River Breaks Canoe, Montana
  • 2006   Rainier National Park, WA- day hiking
  • 2005, 06, 07   Algonquin Park, Ontario Canada - canoe camping   
  • 2004   Chaco Canyon, NM - Ancestral Puebloan Archeology, camping/hiking
  • 2004, 05   Olympic National Park, WA - natural history and hiking
  • 2002, 03, 04   Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness, MN- camping, canoeing
  • 2003   Canyon De Chelly, AZ.- Navajo Culture and hiking
  • 2003   Arches, Canyonlands N.P. and La Sal Mts., UT- xc skiing and hiking
  • 2002   Raft San Juan River, UT- geology, archeology and hiking/camping
  • 2001   Lake Powell Houseboat, UT.- Archeology and hiking
  • 2000   Raft San Juan River and Grand Gulch, UT - Ancestral Puebloan Archeology and backpacking/hiking/rafting
  • 1999   Bryce Canyon and Zion N.P., UT- hiking and xc skiing
  • 1993   Picos de Europa, Spain- hut to hut hiking
  • 1991   Swiss Alps- Inn to Inn hiking
  • 1989   Tanzania and Kenya Safari and Kilimanjaro Climb

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