The Beast and the Boys

The subject of The Beast And The Boys all started in 1978 with a challenge I gave myself. The mountain names come back to me as friends: Marcy, Katahdin, Washington, Clingmans Dome, Rogers and Mitchell. This was the order in which I first climbed to each of there summits between 1978 and 1986. Back then I set my self a goal to climb to every high point in the states east of the Mississippi that had one at least over five thousand feet. Between 1978 and 1986 summited them all for the first time. Some would earn return trips with family, friends and especially, starting in 2017, with two of my grandchildren, Tyler and Justin. The Beast And The Boys is the story of these adventures.