2024 Board Results
President – David Pawlick #12803
Directors:
Brent Pierce #5959 (thru 2027)
Bob Harvey #7442v (thru 2027)
Carla Denn #12655V (thru 2026)
Brant Schneider #12786 (thru 2026)
Winn Rea #9903 (thru 2025)
Sheila Young #2994 (thru 2025)
President – David Pawlick #12803
Directors:
Brent Pierce #5959 (thru 2027)
Bob Harvey #7442v (thru 2027)
Carla Denn #12655V (thru 2026)
Brant Schneider #12786 (thru 2026)
Winn Rea #9903 (thru 2025)
Sheila Young #2994 (thru 2025)
At the Fall 2019 executive meeting, Adirondack 46er President Siobhan Carney-Nesbitt appointed a committee to investigate ways to increase volunteerism and recognize the contributions of those that did volunteer.
Historically, the 46ers had gathered information and recognized the contributions of the Trail Crew in terms of hours (at a rate of 8hrs per day worked on trail crew). Those hours were recorded by Trail Masters, collated, and many trail crew members recognized with patches (and t-shirts at one level) according to how many hours they had accumulated; 46, 146, 346, 546, 746, 1046. In subsequent years, those who were on staff at the Outdoor Leadership (now Skills) Workshop, Trailhead Stewards, Herd Path Adopters, Adopt-A-Highway volunteers, and the current Correspondents were added, with set hours assigned for participation in those projects.
The Founders Award was established prior to 2006 as another way in which, historically, other volunteers had been acknowledged. These other volunteer contributions included those serving as Directors, Committee Chairs, Correspondents (particularly in the transition from Grace herself) and other elected and appointed positions. 94 individuals were recognized with this award from 2006 to 2018 inclusive. These volunteers had never been asked to track the hours they spent/accumulated in conducting that work. They readily agreed to assist the organization with no expectation of earning any hours.
In 2021 the Recognition Committee asked the Board of Directors (BOD) to approve a new procedure that would recognize volunteer hours from that date forward (It was carried, as per the Sept 26 minutes). While contributions of elected and appointed volunteers were greatly appreciated, the hours spent in those voluntary elected and appointed positions were not “grandfathered in” as they had never been asked to track hours and they were recognized in other ways; that is, the Founders Award.
It would be a Herculean task to go back to the beginning of the organization and try to reconstruct the significant contributions of those individuals, but every effort will be made going forward to utilize the approved policy should individuals volunteer for one of our existing programs.
The new policy, adopted by the board in 2021, continues the historical one, in that elected and appointed individuals serve with no expectation of receiving hours for their time. Their time is greatly appreciated but voluntarily given to the organization. Other participants in the approved 46er volunteer programs of OSW, AAH, TSP, Trail Crew, and Correspondents are awarded volunteer time according to the newly adopted policy.
The same committee, amalgamated with members of the Founder’s Award committee, has recommended that the Founder’s Award be replaced with a more comprehensive award, namely, The President’s Award. This award would continue the spirit of the Founder’s Award in that it would be a way to acknowledge and thank those who have served in a variety of capacities, such as elected or appointed positions. It would have an updated approach that allows for nominations of people in all volunteer roles, from members, followed by a committee-based selection process.
This award has received approval from the BOD. The process of nomination/deliberation/announcement of recipients will begin in the fall of 2023, with the first recipients at the spring meeting 2024.
If you wish to nominate someone, please contact 46erpresaward@gmail.com, and you will be sent the necessary details. Remember the deadline is December 31 for awards to be presented the following year.
The 46ers trailhead steward program has completed its last training session of the 2024 year. This would not be possible without our support team.
We wish to Thank the staff at the Adirondack Educational Center for providing us with a space to conduct our training.
We thank Tate Connor NYSDEC forester for his expert training for the last seven years.
Our heartfelt thanks to NYS Forest Rangers Pete Evans and Chris DiCintio for giving up their time on a weekend to prepare our trainees.
Training would not be possible without our 46er trainers Carla Denn- Authority of the resource.
Ben Bradford, Winn Rea, and Lisa Crandall, our Master leave no trace trainers.
Our behind-the-scenes team Laurie Rankin, Brian Hoody, Heather Daley, Ben Bradford, and Joe Ryan.
Finally, we want to than the 100 volunteers who will man our trailheads this season.
The first ever President’s Award were given to Becky Swem, Phil Corell and Brian Hoody.
We have wrapped up our 2023 Trail Crew season and want to send along a huge THANK YOU to the 101 different individual volunteers who came out for our 20 different work days! That worked out to just over 2300 volunteer hours of caring for trails and lean-tos in the Adirondacks!
Remember that regardless of your size, strength, age or ability, there is always something you can do on the trail crew. At the end of each day, we want every volunteer to know that they did something useful and contributed to the improvement of the Adirondack trails and lean-tos.
Come join the crew in 2024!
Your Trailmasters; Brian Hoody, Doug Varney, Curt Snyder, Mary Lamb, Michelle McCall, Victoria Challingsworth, and Mark Simpson.
Additionally, we wish to thank our partners at Frontier Town Gateway who provide us with storage for our tools and parking for our crew!
SAVE THE DATE! Our 2025 Winter Dinner will be held on Saturday, March 29th at Common Roots Brewing in South Glens Falls! Put this date on the calendar and plan ahead for a great celebration of winter climbers! Additional details will be posted as they become available including ticket sales.
Final numbers are in and everyone likes to hear numbers. Our trailhead stewards work under an agreement with NYS DEC at 2 locations, Cascade and Meadows Lane. We work Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holiday Mondays from Victoria Weekend in May through Columbus Day weekend in October. Our stewards are all experienced 46ers and are all volunteers. They work in all kinds of weather. You are all absolutely amazing in your generosity of time and in your assistance to other hikers and the Adirondack Mountains! Thank you all for making such a huge impact out there!
Volunteer hours: 2360
Cascade 11,473 hikers in 72 days for an average of 159 hikers per day.
Meadows Lane 5,791 hikers in 39 days for an average of 148
total hikers 17,264
total dogs: 1,184
total cars: 3,377 (DEC requests we count cars daily at each location in a certain area)
Slowest day: 1 @ ML
Best day: 717 @ ML
Slowest day: 13 @ Cascade
Best Day: 620 @ Cascade
3,906 just in the month of October for both sites, only 7 days at Cascade and 5 days at ML
At the Fall 2019 executive meeting, Adirondack 46er President Siobhan Carney-Nesbitt appointed a committee to investigate ways to increase volunteerism and recognize the contributions of those that did volunteer.
Historically, the 46ers had gathered information and recognized the contributions of the Trail Crew in terms of hours (at a rate of 8hrs per day worked on trail crew). Those hours were recorded by Trail Masters, collated, and many trail crew members recognized with patches (and t-shirts at one level) according to how many hours they had accumulated; 46, 146, 346, 546, 746, 1046. In subsequent years, those who were on staff at the Outdoor Leadership (now Skills) Workshop, Trailhead Stewards, Herd Path Adopters, Adopt-A-Highway volunteers, and the current Correspondents were added, with set hours assigned for participation in those projects.
The Founders Award was established prior to 2006 as another way in which, historically, other volunteers had been acknowledged. These other volunteer contributions included those serving as Directors, Committee Chairs, Correspondents (particularly in the transition from Grace herself) and other elected and appointed positions. 94 individuals were recognized with this award from 2006 to 2018 inclusive. These volunteers had never been asked to track the hours they spent/accumulated in conducting that work. They readily agreed to assist the organization with no expectation of earning any hours.
In 2021 the Recognition Committee asked the Board of Directors (BOD) to approve a new procedure that would recognize volunteer hours from that date forward (It was carried, as per the Sept 26 minutes). While contributions of elected and appointed volunteers were greatly appreciated, the hours spent in those voluntary elected and appointed positions were not “grandfathered in” as they had never been asked to track hours and they were recognized in other ways; that is, the Founders Award.
It would be a Herculean task to go back to the beginning of the organization and try to reconstruct the significant contributions of those individuals, but every effort will be made going forward to utilize the approved policy should individuals volunteer for one of our existing programs.
The new policy, adopted by the board in 2021, continues the historical one, in that elected and appointed individuals serve with no expectation of receiving hours for their time. Their time is greatly appreciated but voluntarily given to the organization. Other participants in the approved 46er volunteer programs of OSW, AAH, TSP, Trail Crew, and Correspondents are awarded volunteer time according to the newly adopted policy.
The same committee, amalgamated with members of the Founder’s Award committee, has recommended that the Founder’s Award be replaced with a more comprehensive award, namely, The President’s Award. This award would continue the spirit of the Founder’s Award in that it would be a way to acknowledge and thank those who have served in a variety of capacities, such as elected or appointed positions. It would have an updated approach that allows for nominations of people in all volunteer roles, from members, followed by a committee-based selection process.
This award has received approval from the BOD. The process of nomination/deliberation/announcement of recipients will begin in the fall of 2023, with the first recipients at the spring meeting 2024.
If you wish to nominate someone, please contact 46erpresaward@gmail.com, and you will be sent the necessary details. Remember the deadline is December 31 for awards to be presented the following year.
The 46ers trailhead steward program has completed its last training session of the 2024 year. This would not be possible without our support team.
We wish to Thank the staff at the Adirondack Educational Center for providing us with a space to conduct our training.
We thank Tate Connor NYSDEC forester for his expert training for the last seven years.
Our heartfelt thanks to NYS Forest Rangers Pete Evans and Chris DiCintio for giving up their time on a weekend to prepare our trainees.
Training would not be possible without our 46er trainers Carla Denn- Authority of the resource.
Ben Bradford, Winn Rea, and Lisa Crandall, our Master leave no trace trainers.
Our behind-the-scenes team Laurie Rankin, Brian Hoody, Heather Daley, Ben Bradford, and Joe Ryan.
Finally, we want to than the 100 volunteers who will man our trailheads this season.
The first ever President’s Award were given to Becky Swem, Phil Corell and Brian Hoody.
We have wrapped up our 2023 Trail Crew season and want to send along a huge THANK YOU to the 101 different individual volunteers who came out for our 20 different work days! That worked out to just over 2300 volunteer hours of caring for trails and lean-tos in the Adirondacks!
Remember that regardless of your size, strength, age or ability, there is always something you can do on the trail crew. At the end of each day, we want every volunteer to know that they did something useful and contributed to the improvement of the Adirondack trails and lean-tos.
Come join the crew in 2024!
Your Trailmasters; Brian Hoody, Doug Varney, Curt Snyder, Mary Lamb, Michelle McCall, Victoria Challingsworth, and Mark Simpson.
Additionally, we wish to thank our partners at Frontier Town Gateway who provide us with storage for our tools and parking for our crew!
SAVE THE DATE! Our 2025 Winter Dinner will be held on Saturday, March 29th at Common Roots Brewing in South Glens Falls! Put this date on the calendar and plan ahead for a great celebration of winter climbers! Additional details will be posted as they become available including ticket sales.
Final numbers are in and everyone likes to hear numbers. Our trailhead stewards work under an agreement with NYS DEC at 2 locations, Cascade and Meadows Lane. We work Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holiday Mondays from Victoria Weekend in May through Columbus Day weekend in October. Our stewards are all experienced 46ers and are all volunteers. They work in all kinds of weather. You are all absolutely amazing in your generosity of time and in your assistance to other hikers and the Adirondack Mountains! Thank you all for making such a huge impact out there!
Volunteer hours: 2360
Cascade 11,473 hikers in 72 days for an average of 159 hikers per day.
Meadows Lane 5,791 hikers in 39 days for an average of 148
total hikers 17,264
total dogs: 1,184
total cars: 3,377 (DEC requests we count cars daily at each location in a certain area)
Slowest day: 1 @ ML
Best day: 717 @ ML
Slowest day: 13 @ Cascade
Best Day: 620 @ Cascade
3,906 just in the month of October for both sites, only 7 days at Cascade and 5 days at ML
At the Fall 2019 executive meeting, Adirondack 46er President Siobhan Carney-Nesbitt appointed a committee to investigate ways to increase volunteerism and recognize the contributions of those that did volunteer.
Historically, the 46ers had gathered information and recognized the contributions of the Trail Crew in terms of hours (at a rate of 8hrs per day worked on trail crew). Those hours were recorded by Trail Masters, collated, and many trail crew members recognized with patches (and t-shirts at one level) according to how many hours they had accumulated; 46, 146, 346, 546, 746, 1046. In subsequent years, those who were on staff at the Outdoor Leadership (now Skills) Workshop, Trailhead Stewards, Herd Path Adopters, Adopt-A-Highway volunteers, and the current Correspondents were added, with set hours assigned for participation in those projects.
The Founders Award was established prior to 2006 as another way in which, historically, other volunteers had been acknowledged. These other volunteer contributions included those serving as Directors, Committee Chairs, Correspondents (particularly in the transition from Grace herself) and other elected and appointed positions. 94 individuals were recognized with this award from 2006 to 2018 inclusive. These volunteers had never been asked to track the hours they spent/accumulated in conducting that work. They readily agreed to assist the organization with no expectation of earning any hours.
In 2021 the Recognition Committee asked the Board of Directors (BOD) to approve a new procedure that would recognize volunteer hours from that date forward (It was carried, as per the Sept 26 minutes). While contributions of elected and appointed volunteers were greatly appreciated, the hours spent in those voluntary elected and appointed positions were not “grandfathered in” as they had never been asked to track hours and they were recognized in other ways; that is, the Founders Award.
It would be a Herculean task to go back to the beginning of the organization and try to reconstruct the significant contributions of those individuals, but every effort will be made going forward to utilize the approved policy should individuals volunteer for one of our existing programs.
The new policy, adopted by the board in 2021, continues the historical one, in that elected and appointed individuals serve with no expectation of receiving hours for their time. Their time is greatly appreciated but voluntarily given to the organization. Other participants in the approved 46er volunteer programs of OSW, AAH, TSP, Trail Crew, and Correspondents are awarded volunteer time according to the newly adopted policy.
The same committee, amalgamated with members of the Founder’s Award committee, has recommended that the Founder’s Award be replaced with a more comprehensive award, namely, The President’s Award. This award would continue the spirit of the Founder’s Award in that it would be a way to acknowledge and thank those who have served in a variety of capacities, such as elected or appointed positions. It would have an updated approach that allows for nominations of people in all volunteer roles, from members, followed by a committee-based selection process.
This award has received approval from the BOD. The process of nomination/deliberation/announcement of recipients will begin in the fall of 2023, with the first recipients at the spring meeting 2024.
If you wish to nominate someone, please contact 46erpresaward@gmail.com, and you will be sent the necessary details. Remember the deadline is December 31 for awards to be presented the following year.
The 46ers trailhead steward program has completed its last training session of the 2024 year. This would not be possible without our support team.
We wish to Thank the staff at the Adirondack Educational Center for providing us with a space to conduct our training.
We thank Tate Connor NYSDEC forester for his expert training for the last seven years.
Our heartfelt thanks to NYS Forest Rangers Pete Evans and Chris DiCintio for giving up their time on a weekend to prepare our trainees.
Training would not be possible without our 46er trainers Carla Denn- Authority of the resource.
Ben Bradford, Winn Rea, and Lisa Crandall, our Master leave no trace trainers.
Our behind-the-scenes team Laurie Rankin, Brian Hoody, Heather Daley, Ben Bradford, and Joe Ryan.
Finally, we want to than the 100 volunteers who will man our trailheads this season.
The first ever President’s Award were given to Becky Swem, Phil Corell and Brian Hoody.
We have wrapped up our 2023 Trail Crew season and want to send along a huge THANK YOU to the 101 different individual volunteers who came out for our 20 different work days! That worked out to just over 2300 volunteer hours of caring for trails and lean-tos in the Adirondacks!
Remember that regardless of your size, strength, age or ability, there is always something you can do on the trail crew. At the end of each day, we want every volunteer to know that they did something useful and contributed to the improvement of the Adirondack trails and lean-tos.
Come join the crew in 2024!
Your Trailmasters; Brian Hoody, Doug Varney, Curt Snyder, Mary Lamb, Michelle McCall, Victoria Challingsworth, and Mark Simpson.
Additionally, we wish to thank our partners at Frontier Town Gateway who provide us with storage for our tools and parking for our crew!
SAVE THE DATE! Our 2025 Winter Dinner will be held on Saturday, March 29th at Common Roots Brewing in South Glens Falls! Put this date on the calendar and plan ahead for a great celebration of winter climbers! Additional details will be posted as they become available including ticket sales.
Final numbers are in and everyone likes to hear numbers. Our trailhead stewards work under an agreement with NYS DEC at 2 locations, Cascade and Meadows Lane. We work Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holiday Mondays from Victoria Weekend in May through Columbus Day weekend in October. Our stewards are all experienced 46ers and are all volunteers. They work in all kinds of weather. You are all absolutely amazing in your generosity of time and in your assistance to other hikers and the Adirondack Mountains! Thank you all for making such a huge impact out there!
Volunteer hours: 2360
Cascade 11,473 hikers in 72 days for an average of 159 hikers per day.
Meadows Lane 5,791 hikers in 39 days for an average of 148
total hikers 17,264
total dogs: 1,184
total cars: 3,377 (DEC requests we count cars daily at each location in a certain area)
Slowest day: 1 @ ML
Best day: 717 @ ML
Slowest day: 13 @ Cascade
Best Day: 620 @ Cascade
3,906 just in the month of October for both sites, only 7 days at Cascade and 5 days at ML
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