ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT
B Section
THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016
MATT DICKERSON
Coming home
My older brother Ted just visited me from Alaska. All three of my brothers enjoy outdoor activities. They have all done some camping, hiking and fishing. But Ted is my brother who enjoys outdoor recreation the most. Perhaps even more than I do. Like me he grew up in small town New England and was raised on fishing and camping trips with our father in northern Maine. During our youth and young adult years, we had a lot of outdoor adventures together tromping and splashing around the woods and rivers of Maine. Getting lost and breaking paddles on canoe trips. Camping and fishing through day after day of torrential rain. Being eaten alive by mosquitoes and black flies. All those sorts of memorable and enjoyable and nostalgic adventures that two teenage brothers have together. And, as it turned out, brothers in their mid20s also have together. But at some point Ted went off to college in Boulder, Colo., and fell in love with big majestic mountains. He also fell in love with, and eventually married, Susie, another university student whose family was from Colorado. Although Ted and Susie came for a time to live in rural Massachusetts and Maine with their two young sons, they eventually ended up back in Colorado on the edge of the Rockies for several years. I made a point of visiting them as often as I could, and caught a few Colorado trout. After Ted attended graduate school for architecture, he and his family moved to the mountains of western North Carolina, not far from the (See Dickerson, Page 2B)
Tiger skaters get postseason nods MIDDLEBURY — Three members of the Middlebury Union High School boys’ hockey team earned postseason honors from the Division II coaches. Junior defender Andrew Gleason earned the highest honor among the trio with a first-team nod. Senior forward Colton Leno, an Otter Valley student playing with the Tigers on a member-to-member basis, was named to the second team. The coaches also picked an AllFreshman team, and the coaches picked Tiger forward Henry Hodde for that squad. Stowe’s Chad Haggerty was named the player of the year, and John Chamberlin of Woodstock, which earned the playoff top seed but was upset in the quarterfinal round, earned coach of the year honors.
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All in a day’s work as Howe conquers Vermont peaks Student runs up, bikes to and from five top summits By DAVID FUCHS MIDDLEBURY — With the sleet coming down hard on an early spring day, Peter Howe glances out the window, laces up his running shoes and heads for Chipman Hill. His stride is light, easy and relaxed as he climbs through the muddy, slushy slop. On a day when some athletes choose to stay indoors, the 19-year-old Middlebury College sophomore of Gilmanton Ironworks, N.H., is on his second outdoor run of the afternoon. Howe is training for the upcoming ultra-marathon season, looking to push himself harder than ever before. Considering his endeavors this past fall, he’s setting the bar pretty high. On Oct. 11, 2015, at 2:30 in the morning, Howe was at the base of Mt. Mansfield, Vermont’s tallest mountain, locking his road bike to a tree. He waved goodbye to his friend Nick Underwood, who had dropped him off, punched “start” on his watch and took off up the mountain with that “I was just same easy flowing with stride. Prethe trail, cisely 15 hours, 49 which felt really good.” minutes, 48 — Peter Howe seconds and 126 miles later, he was taking in the sunset from the summit of Killington Mountain — having run up and down Vermont’s five tallest peaks and biked the 100 miles between them. By the numbers, Howe’s day consisted of 26 miles of running and 100 miles of biking with 11,000 feet of elevation gain by foot and 5,000 feet of elevation gain on the bike — a cumulative height taller than any point in the continental United States. While the numbers alone are impressive, they weren’t Howe’s motivation; his goals were much more personal. “I was out there to have fun. The goal was not to do it as fast as I could; it was just to go out there for the adventure of it,” Howe said. And what an adventure he had. Running by headlamp, Howe made a quick 47-minute ascent to the summit of Mt. Mansfield, skimming along the Long Trail south from his starting point on Route 108. The night was cool and clear and the stars were phenomenal, Howe said. As it was his first time on top of the 4,393-foot peak, he paused a beat at the summit to take in the night views of Burlington, Stowe and Waterbury. With the rest of the
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SOPHOMORE Peter Howe, shown traversing a ridge in the Colorado Rockies, excels at mountain running. This past fall he ran to the peaks of Vermont’s five highest mountains — in one day.
PETER HOWE CONSIDERS running in the mountains more of an art than a sport. Nevertheless, the Middlebury College sophomore from New Hampshire accomplished quite an athletic feat when he ran up and down the five highest peaks in Vermont in one day. Independent photo/Trent Campbell
day ahead of him, though, he knew he couldn’t linger and made an easy descent to the base. At the parking lot, he threw on his bike kit, took a swig of water, scarfed down a banana and was ready to roll. He switched on the headlamp duct-taped to his helmet, passed his friend who was still asleep in his car
and eased into the 25-mile stretch on Route 100 to Camel’s Hump in Duxbury. For Howe, who’s much more at home on his feet than in the saddle, it was a long time to be on the bike. So, when he pulled up to the trailhead an hour and 45 minutes later, he was already itching to run.
Changing back into his running gear at the base of mountain, Howe sensed he had an opportunity to make it to the 4,083-foot summit before sunrise — an idea that was so exciting that he ran up faster than was sensible, he later admitted. In this case, however, the risk was (See Howe, Page 3B)
IN SCALING VERMONT’S highest peaks in one day last fall, a Middlebury College sophomore ran a total of 26 miles with 11,000 feet of elevation, plus he rode a bike 100 miles between the peaks, which added another 5,000 feet of climbing.
ScoreBOARD Men’s lacrosse picks up pair of hard-fought victories COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse 3/22 Midd. vs. Plattsburgh .....................10-8
Schedule
COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Lacrosse 3/26 Bowdoin at Midd. ......................... Noon 3/29 Midd. at Dickinson ......................4 p.m. 3/30 Midd. at Stevenson ................4:30 p.m. 4/2 Midd. at Amherst............................ Noon Men’s Lacrosse 3/26 Midd. at Bowdoin ........................1 p.m. 3/30 Midd. vs. RIT at Syracuse ..........7 p.m. 4/2 Amherst at Midd............................2 p.m. Baseball 3/26 Midd vs. Oberlin in AZ (2) ...........2 p.m. 3/27 Midd. vs. Carthage in AZ (2) .......3 p.m. 3/28 Midd. vs. Westminster in AZ .......2 p.m. 3/28 Midd. vs. G. Adolphus in AZ ..5:30 p.m. 3/29 Midd. vs. Westminster in AZ .......2 p.m. 3/30 Midd. vs. G. Adolphus in AZ ..4:30 p.m. 4/1 Midd. vs. Williams in AZ...........1:30 p.m. 4/2 Midd. vs. Williams in AZ (2) ..........2 p.m. Softball 3/25 Midd. vs. Chicago in FLA............3 p.m. 3/25 Midd. vs. WVU Tech in FLA ........5 p.m. 3/25 Midd. vs. S. Maine in FLA...........7 p.m. 3/26 Midd. vs. Oberlin in FLA ...........11 a.m. 3/26 Midd. vs. Thomas in FLA ............1 p.m. 3/26 Midd. vs. WVU Tech in FLA ........3 p.m. 3/27 Midd. vs. Buffalo St. in FLA .....11 a.m.. 3/27 Midd. vs. Thomas in FLA ............1 p.m. 3/27 Midd. vs. Thomas in FLA ............3 p.m. 4/2 Midd. at Amherst (2) ...................... Noon 4/3 Midd. at Amherst............................ Noon Spectators are advised to consult school websites for the latest schedule updates.
PLATTSBURGH — The Middlebury College men’s lacrosse team picked up a pair of road wins in recent action, an overtime decision in a Saturday NESCAC contest, and a non-league victory at Plattsburgh on
Tuesday. Middlebury improved to 4-2 heading into a game at NESCAC foe Bowdoin on Saturday and are now ranked No. 9 in NCAA Division III. On this past Saturday, Panther Jack Gould scored a man-up goal 50 sec-
onds into overtime as Middlebury earned a 9-8 win at Wesleyan (3-2, 1-2 NESCAC). Middlebury took a 3-0 lead after one period, on goals by Cedric Rhodes, Sean Carroll and Gould. Jon Broome
assisted the first two markers. The teams exchanged goals in the second quarter, and Middlebury maintained its three-goal edge at the half, 6-3. Joey Zelkowitz, Jack Cleary and Henry Riehl (13 seconds before
intermission) scored for the Panthers. Wesleyan cut the lead to 6-5 in the third, but late goals by Riehl and Gould made it 8-5 entering the fourth quarter. (See Lacrosse, Page 2B)
Panther tennis rallies by Wesleyan MIDDLEBURY — The No. 3 Middlebury College men’s tennis team rallied for a 5-4 victory on Saturday against visiting No. 9 Wesleyan in a match between two NESCAC teams ranked in the top 10 in NCAA Division III. The Panthers (3-0) return to action with six matches out in California beginning with a contest on Saturday at Concordia. In doubles this past Saturday, the Panther No. 1 team of Ari Smolyar and Noah Farrell were the
first off the court with an 8-5 win over Zachary Brint and Greg Lyon. Wesleyan’s Michael Liu and Steven Chen tied the match at 1-1 with an 8-6 win at No. 2 against Palmer Campbell and Hamid Derbani. The Cardinals took a 2-1 lead headed to singles with an 8-6 triumph at No. 3 by Joachim Samson and Sam Ruovsky over William de Quant and Timo van der Geest. In singles, Campbell squared the match at 2-2 with a 6-1, 6-2 victory at No. 3 over Tiago Eusebio,
while Farrell improved his season record to 18-2 via a 6-4, 6-1 win against Liu in the top flight to put the Panthers up, 3-2. The Cardinals won the next two matches: Samson defeated de Quant at No. 4 (6-0, 7-5), and Chen edged Smolyar in the second spot (4-6, 6-4, 6-1). Derbani tied the match by cruising past Jake Roberts at No. 5, 6-2, 6-2, and Middlebury’s van der Geest clinched the match with a 6-2, 7-5 triumph at No. 6.
Local girls named basketball standouts All-stars on skates MUHS SENIORS TAJAH Marsden, left, and Lauren Bartlett played on the winning Austin team in Saturday’s Rotary All-Star Classic at the Essex Skating Facility, pitting mixed teams of senior Division I and II boys’ and girls’ hockey all-stars against one another. Their team defeated the Harris All-Stars, 3-2. Tiger boys’ seniors Ryan Crowningshield, Colton Leno and Sawyer Ryan played in the day’s second game, and their Harris squad defeated the Austin All-Stars, also by 3-2.
ADDISON COUNTY — Six members of the four local high school girls’ basketball teams earned postseason recognition from either the Lake Division or Marble Valley League B Division coaches, including Middlebury Union High School sophomore Keagan Dunbar, who was named the Lake Division Player of the Year.
Joining Dunbar as a Lake Division First-Team All-Star was Mount Abraham sophomore Emma Carter. Otter Valley senior Amy Jones earned recognition as an MVL B Division First Team All-Star, and OV sophomore Gabby Poalino was chosen as an MVL B Division Second Team All-Star.
Named as Lake Division Second Team All-Stars were Vergennes senior Nikki Salley and Mount Abe sophomore Emma LaRose. In addition, Orwell resident Lexi Quenneville, who this winter helped her Fair Haven team win its first Division II title, was for the second time named to the MVL B Division First Team.