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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
I’m sorry, okay?
The Trouble with Vandalism
How Was I Supposed to Know
I Made a New Headline for That Newspaper Article
Why I Skipped Those Gym Classes
Introductory Poem for the Stupid Poetry Project
Photograph
Pointless
Hero
Endowed
Seven More Haiku for the Stupid Poetry Project
The Verdict
Reparations
What the Scarf Said
She’ll Drop All the Charges
Traitor
Are You Freaking Kidding Me?
Mom’s Voice Is Tired When She Finally Talks
Rules for Reparations
His Name Is Seymour
The Last Time Somebody Stuffed a Bag So Full
Dead Old Lady Boots
There’s a Space for My Name
Mountains to Climb
George Cheney and the Very Bad Hikes
Choose Your Own Disaster
What About the Bears?
Going Big
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On the Way to the Trailhead We Stop at Kelly’s House
How Hiking Mount Marcy Is Supposed to Go
Trail Nanny
Mom
How Hiking Mount Marcy Actually Goes
Cow Nanny Talks and I Nod Like I’m Listening
I’d Like to See Less of Seymour
When Mom Picks Me Up at the Trailhead
At First When the World Shut Down
When the Phone Rang That Day in May
When the World Started Turning Again
Every Once in a While
46er Practice
Indian Head
On the Dirt Road
The Thing About Brooks
The Question of the Hour
Just Uphill from the Brook
Black Flies
Poem for a Snack Break
In Honor of the Dude Who Wrote the Poem About Being Sorry for Eating the Plums
Starting Over
This Time
Mom
On the Drive Home Mom Stops at Bluebird BBQ
Father’s Day
Abracadabra
Finals Week
What Minh and Jesse Write in My Yearbook
Another Nanny
Adirondack Hiking Is Nothing like Running the Hundred-Yard Dash
Don’t Look Down
Someone Should Have Told Me
Not My Dog
Mom
Conversation at the Summit
Before We Head Down
Burned
Lake Placid Middle School—Make-Up Work Report
Lake Placid Middle School—Make-Up Work Report
Hero
Admired
The Coach
Street and Nye
I Lied—I Do Have More to Say
Mom
Droolface Ate My Sandwich
Artifacts
The Museum of My Parents
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
After the Towers
Do You Believe in Miracles?
Another Story Gram Likes to Tell
The Trouble with Plans
The Last Half Mile
Street and Nye Cookies
When We Stop to Pick Up Seymour
Mom
Conversation with Nerd Nanny Back at the Parking Lot
Sam Asks If I Want to Invite a Friend
Going Big (Take Two!)
Awesome
Not Awesome
Choose Your Own Disaster at Calamity Pond
Calamity
In Case You’re Wondering
Choose Your Own Disaster in the Santanonis
Finally
What Do You Remember About My Dad?
What Do You Remember About Your Dad?
Wright, Algonquin, and Iroquois
DogTrails: Seymour’s Review of Wright, Algonquin, and Iroquois
Don’t Tell Kelly
Lunch Break
I’ve Seen that Card Before
Dad Always Worried
Mom
In the Parking Lot
The Trouble with Heroes
Dad’s obituary from the Adirondack Daily News
Unexpectedly: Erasure Poem for the Poetry Project
What the Obituary Left Out
Grounding Exercise
I’ve Been Thinking About Coach and That Card
The Other Thing I’ve Been Thinking
The Other Other Thing I’ve Been Thinking
Scenic vs. Easy
Mom
Climbing Down from Colvin and Blake
Too Much Time to Think
Two Weeks Before Dad Died
Distractions
Somebody’s Missing
When You Accidentally Start Noticing Things, It’s Kinda Hard to Stop
When You Meet Two People Hiking Together
Mom
You Learn a Lot About a Person Hiking Together
Empty House
Box #1
Photograph
Box #2
One of Those Times
Return of the Nerd Nanny
Allen Mountain: Beware the Red Slime!
Mom
The Phone Rings After Dinner
The Giant’s Washbowl
Mom
Ribbons
The Giant’s Other Stuff
I Didn’t Forget About the Boxes
Edna
So Was Dad a 46er?
You Can’t Cry in the Middle of a Pandemic
Edna’s Advice
Mountains of Bills
Parody Poem for the Heroes Project
The Trouble with Found Poems
False Summit
The Trouble with Cloud Shadows
Climbing with Coach
Mom
On the Way Down
The Plan
I Explain the Whole Plan
CliffNotes
Mom
Studying Up While the Energy Bites Chill
Sacrifice
How Dad Was Supposed to Die
Back to the Boxes
CERTIFICATE OF CREMATION
Not Sand
The Weight of Everything
How Did These Ashes End Up in Mom’s Closet?
Four Miserable Mountains
Mom
Trail Ghosts
Maybe You Don’t Believe in Ghosts but Hear Me Out
After the Seward Range
#CookiesTasteBetterOnMountains
Mountain Math
As Long as the Weather Cooperates
It Pours for Five Days Straight
Staring Up at the Saddleback Cliffs
Why Coach Didn’t See Me Cry
Coaching the Coach
Mom
The Hard Parts
Choosing
Ashes
And Marcy, Too
On the Summit of Marcy
The Mountains Were Waiting
An Old 46ers Tale
On the Summit of Mount Skylight
On the Way to Gray Peak
On the Summit of Gray Peak
Choose Your Own Disaster on Gray Peak
On the Ledge Near the Summit of Gray Peak
The Mountains Must Get Tired
Mom
The Floating Bridges and Other Lies
Swimming Hole Confessions
Mountain Memory
Tough Times
Advanced Mountain Math
Good Thing Seymour’s Getting Better at Ladders
Misery Mile
On the Summit of Mount Colden
Mom
Somehow
Forecast for Failure
Answers and Mud
Negative
God Grant Me the Serenity
Can You Be Addicted to Being a Hero?
Finding a Window
No Good Path
A Lot Can Happen in a Mile
On the Way to Esther Mountain
Lost and Found in the Adirondacks
On the Summit of Esther Mountain
Lost
Lost Has One More Meaning
One Mountain Left
Mom
Mom
Mom
Labor Day
Everything
Seymour
The Weight of Everything
The Truth
Another Visitor
Seeing Seymour
It’s Okay
Seymour
Ashes and Jell-O
The Summit Crew
Minh and Jesse Visit, Too
September 11
Visitor
Letters
Survivors
Photograph
Dad’s Letters
The Trouble with Heroes II
Author’s Note
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