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Mary Krueger…..We are originally from Maryland, and moved full time to our vacation home in the Adirondacks near Jay and Whiteface Mountain in the summer of 2001, after my husband, Frank, a former Washington lawyer retired. I am a former social studies teacher and school guidance counselor. We started coming to the Adirondacks in the late 1980’s, first to ski, then also to hike in the summer and fall. We joined ADK in 1988 and have both been active in the club since then. We were members-at-large until we moved to the Adirondacks and are now members of the Northwoods chapter. I was chairperson for ADK’s Fall Outing a few years ago, and served on the Fall Outing 2008 committee. I have enjoyed volunteering at the Nature Museum at Heart Lake during the last few summers.. I have served on ADK’s Education Committee and am now a member of the Outings Committee, serving as a trip leader and as the coordinator for ADK Seasonal Outings. I got interested in leading trips when we took an ADK trip to Austria in 2003, and an ADK trip to Ireland in 2006. We have traveled throughout the U.S. and have visited and hiked in most of our National Parks. My favorites include: Glacier, Yellowstone, Yosemite, North Cascades, Grand Canyon, Zion, Olympic, Mt. Rainier, Grand Teton, Badlands, Shenandoah, Smokey Mountain, and Crater Lake. We have also hiked in the Andes of South America and in the Austrian and Swiss Alps , and have visited many of the Provincial Parks in Canada. We have hiked in the Rockies, the Sierra’s, the Cascades, the North Cascades, the Chirricahua’s in Arizona, and the Appalachians, including the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Katahdin in Maine. I love to travel and enjoy planning and making arrangements for trips. I have planned and coordinated family trips to Europe, South America, and throughout the U.S. I thought it would be fun and interesting to become a trip leader and share with others my love and enjoyment of some of the places we have traveled to over the years. I have enjoyed leading day hikes and cross country ski day trips for the hiking group I belong to. I have hiked many of the Adirondack High Peaks, some several times. I do only the ones with beautiful views, so I am not a 46er, although my husband is. My favorites are: Gothics, Algonquin, Colden, Marcy, Wright, Giant, and Cascade. I also enjoy many of the “gentler” hikes in many areas of the the Adirondacks, some of my favorites being Owl Head Lookout near Elizabethtown, the West River Trail to Lower Ausable Lake, The Crows, the Jay Range, Hurricane Mountain, Saint Regis Mountain, Cooper Kiln Pond, Marcy Dam, and Silver Lake Mountain and bog. These are places where we often take guests who are visiting. As a leader, I like to lead moderate to somewhat strenuous hikes with an educational/interpretive focus, learning about and appreciating the flora and fauna, geology, and natural and cultural history of the areas in which we are hiking. I like to keep a steady, but fairly relaxed pace that allows time for things like enjoyment of views, and photography. I led the ADK trip to Glacier NP in 2008, and will be leading trips there again in 2009 and 2010. I have been to Glacier NP 4 times. The first time was when I was a teenager, and I fell in love with it then. I always look forward to going back and to sharing this beautiful place with fellow ADK members. Some of my other interests include our children (two grown sons, one in Delaware and one in Oregon) and grand-children ( a boy, 8, and a girl, 5); Nordic and Alpine skiing, canoeing, sailing, camping, back-packing, music (piano and chorus), reading, history, environmental conservation , and travel. One of my favorite moments was when our grandson, then 4 years old, asked me, “Next time we go to your house, Grandma, can we take a hike?” KKMEK@Frontiernet.net Mary Krueger 163 Scenic Point Lane, Jay, NY 12941 518-647-8646 FKKMEK@Frontiernet.net |