‘High Peaks Hula Hiker’ puts refreshing spin on climbing Adirondack mountains

ESSEX COUNTY, N.Y. (News10) – Very last September, Nafsika Stavis of Schodack did what several Adirondack hikers have performed before, scaling Whiteface Mountain and ending her run of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks.

Compared with the many others, while, she stopped at the top in rain and wind to acquire a spin on her hula hoop.

Donning the title of “High Peaks Hula Hiker” on YouTube, Stavis has vlogged her journey across the large peaks, with elevations as substantial as more than 5,000 toes. It begun when she and her 5 siblings acquired a wake-up phone to balanced living patterns, when her two brothers both equally obtained emergency open up coronary heart surgical procedures a 7 days apart from each and every other in 2017.

Stavis, who works in healthcare treatment, took up hiking, and picked up hula hoop as a recommendation from a good friend with a little one. Mountaineering begun on the Adirondack Park’s fire tower trails, but immediately Stavis decided to up the ante.

The journey is chronicled on her YouTube channel, with close friends signing up for her. The road hasn’t all been effortless, and even bundled a park ranger coming the rescue of her and her daughter from a mountain wherever they were being slowed down by rain and caught out following darkish.

Now her journey throughout the 46 is finished, but Stavis isn’t. This wintertime, she’s been snowshoeing numerous trails in the park.