ADK Fire Tower Challenge

The Glens Falls-Saratoga Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club awards a patch to finishers of the ADK Fire Tower Challenge.  To complete this challenge, hikers must climb and document ascents of at least 23 from a menu of 32 eligible fire towers.  This total must include at least 18 of the 27 Adirondack fire towers, plus all five Catskill fire towers.  Climbing the actual fire tower is not required, and in some cases is not allowed, but where permissible, is ever so much fun.  Trip reports from my hikes of these trails are linked in the table below.

Adirondack Fire Towers	Date(s) Completed
Mount Adams
Mount Arab	2018-09-03
Azure Mountain	2021-06-13
Bald (Rondaxe) Mountain	2010-05-01, 2014-05-14, 2017-06-11, 2018-09-29
Belfry Mountain	2016-09-04
Black Mountain
Blue Mountain	2015-10-11
Buck Mountain
Cathedral Rock	2017-01-15
Goodnow Mountain	2019-07-24
Gore Mountain
Hadley Mountain	2021-05-31
Hurricane Mountain	2021-01-15
Kane Mountain	2015-09-26, 2018-10-20
Loon Lake Mountain
Lyon Mountain	2023-08-27
Owls Head Mountain
Pillsbury Mountain
Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain	2017-08-31
Snowy Mountain
Spruce Mountain	2016-04-30
St. Regis Mountain	2009-07-25
Stillwater Mountain	2017-08-05
Swede Mountain	2023-09-03
Vanderwhacker Mountain
Wakely Mountain
Woodhull Mountain
Catskill Fire Towers	Date(s) Completed
Balsam Lake Mountain	2021-10-02
Hunter Mountain
Overlook Mountain
Red Hill	2023-07-30
Tremper Mountain

Read more about the ADK Fire Tower Challenge here.