Soolin summited her first mountain this week, Prospect up in Lake George. Of course dingus me forgot to bring the flash card for the camera so I whipped it out and discovered I was lugging the camera and case along for no good reason. D’oh! Anyway the hiking was excellent. There were still many feet of snow in places on the mountain and sections of the trail were seriously iced over, but it was warm and everything was coated with a thick frosting of crunchy ice froth, leaving me something to get a grip on with my boots. Highlights of the trip aside from the glorious view looking north along the lake were Soolin doing her best penguin impersonation as she discovered she could slide down the ice, running back and forth along this one ~six foot stretch of trail so she could repeatedly slide down it, and me skitching my way down like 80% of the mountain at a barely controlled pace on the way down. Great fun!