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Show Page E4 THE DAILY HERALD, 19, 1999 Provo, Utah, Sunday, September Highest Adirondack peak lures hikers by thousands ical urban problem parking place. By MIKE HENDRICKS Associated Press Writer finding a Finding a camping spot is often the next challenge. The KEENE VALLEY, N.Y. It two most popular camping has been a long time since someone hiking to the top of sites, around Marcy Dam and Mount Marcy could expect to the shore of Lake Colden, are congested on summer weekfind solitude on the ends and holidays. Bears can be summit. of the a particular nuisance at these The popularity crowded campsites because Adirondack High Peaks for hikers and backpackers has been they have learned the campers have food. Even the most careincreasing every year since the of food may not 1980s, stressing the fragile fully hung baghiker-sawbe safe from a bear. and environment jeopalpine A bear that loses its fear of ardizing the wilderness experihumans risks being destroyed. ence. There are some 2,500 black As the highest point in New York state and the biggest of all bears in the High Peaks and the Adirondack mountains, thousands more in the rest of t Mount Marcy is the the Adirondacks. The state has been strugdestination of choice for thouwith balancing the congling, of sands hikers. On a typical weekday, about flicting needs of preserving a hikers can be counted on forever wild area with the the summit. Saturdays are the recreational thirst of some 72 million people living less than a most crowded, typically drawday's drive away in the biggest ing more than a hundred peoin the United States and cities ple. On a recent Thursday, the Canada. summit drew hikers from New regulations will change Arizona, Connecticut, North the camping experience in the Carolina, Ohio, Washington Peaks no more roaring High and Quebec, plus scores of Boy no more campfires, big groups Scouts. tromping down the trail, fewer lean-toto sleep in and no more Hard-wo- n solace Wayne Ratowski hikes the parking on the side of the road Adirondacks at every opportu- when trailhead lots are filled. nity, often going alone deep into Hikers will be required to carry a permit. The regulations may the mountains. be tightened after five years if "It's gotten real bad. It's crowds are not thinned out. the Ratowski crazy," says. will be banned be done. to Campfires has got "Something 1 don't have the solution. I have around Mount Marcy to protect come to the conclusion that the the forest from the fire ring and mountains are there for them, protect trees from being too." stripped for firewood. The lean-thas been part Ratowski, who makes the of the Adirondack camping drive from Canton to the High Peaks many times a experience since 1919 when year, goes to great lengths to the state started building lean-toon the slopes of be alone in the Adirondack Last backcountry. year Mount Marcy to draw visitors Ratowski climbed 298 to the mountains. At its peak There Adirondack mountains, more there were 90 lean-tos- . left in the than 250 on solo trips. Not are 72 lean-toonly does Ratowski usually Adirondacks and they may be hike alone, even in winter, thinned out. but he has even hiked all 46 High Peaks in winter under a Rethinking the rules full moon, probably the ultiThe state is extending the mate way to be alone in the ban on camping above 4,000 feet to the winter. Currently, mountains. Ratowski often steps off the is camping trail at the sound of approachbanned on the higher, more fragile elevations. ing hikers. "If I don't want to be bothBill Eldridge, a lifelong ered they never see me." Adirondack hiker who makes Most of the 46 High Peaks the trip up from Staten Island that rise 4,000 feet or more several times a year, welcomes above sea level are clustered in the restrictions. "It makes sense to me," 226,435 acres of the 6 million-acrAdirondack State Park. Eldridge said. "We've all By the state count, 140.000 watched a lot of deterioration people hiked the Adirondack the last few years. Something High Peaks last year. That has to be done. Its sad, but it compares with 60,000 in 1983. can work. Most of them head for a hand"I've hiked out west in New ful of the most popular sumMexico, Colorado and Utah and mits Marcy, Algonquin, they have regulations and they Cascade and Giant on sumseem to work. It's about time it mer weekends. came out east. My only concern is that the state is going to the come crowds Fighting up with money for Ironically, on many summer enforcement. 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