Big Mountains for Little People

A view from Big Slide Mountain: the imposing peaks of the Great Range, brooding in the gloom of late autumn. While it's still balmy in D.C., autumn is in its final throes in the mountains of New England. For the long weekend, I took a new friend to hike New York's Adirondack High Peaks region, bagging five of the Adirondack 46ers and making 30 or so miles over extremely challenging terrain. I was…