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Obviously, Dave you didn't know any better, but to those of you who might be inspired to do the same, please note that the DEC, the ADK, & the Adirondack 46ers *strongly* discourage people from bushwhacking from Gray to Marcy in an effort to protect a very fragile area. As you noted, no obvious herd path/paths have been formed and the afore mentioned groups have would like that it stay that way. If that wasn't enough of a reason, the bushwhack is shorter as-the-crow-flies, it takes most people longer than if they were to descend back to Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds and ascend Marcy from Four Corners, and the trail and views up the South side of Marcy's summit cone are excellent. --Matt K. P.s. I've heard from fellow 46ers that many of McMartin's route descriptions, particularly of paths & bushwhacks are becoming or have become obsolete. On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:58 PM, David Guertin <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > > We had decided to up the interest in this trip by taking the herd path > along the ridge between Gray and Marcy instead of descending back into the > valley and climbing Marcy on the trail. As herd paths go, this is the least > obvious, most obscure, difficult-to-follow and untravelled path I've > followed to the simmit of a peak. In other words, it was great fun. The path > was pretty much totally obscured beneath the dense krumholz, but by looking > down between the branches we could mostly see where it went, and the three > or four times we lost the path, it eventually became obvious and was pretty > easy to set ourselves right. Following this path along the ridge and > emerging on the obscure west side of Marcy's summit cone was definitely the > high point of this trip, and indeed one of the high points of any of our > trips. > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html