"What a day! Arrived at trailhead 80 minutes before sunrise: first few miles hiked by moonlight. Foggy early morning gave way to a cloud inversion, visible from the summits of Santanoni and Panther, but dissipated by Couch summit. Absolutely perfect weather for hiking, and the leaves were just starting to change. Arguably one of the best hikes so far!" — hunterjfrost • Sep 25, 2021

"Began at 6:30 and headed up Santanoni express. Very mudddy at top but good climb. Headed over to Couch. The bog wasn’t as bad as expected and a lot smaller. Took time to get out there and back, then went up Panther. Didn’t expect the “little” bog going up to Panther. Came down the backside. This took some time but overall not a bad hike…just long. Returned to parking lot just before 6." — bbergman • Sep 11, 2021

"Santononi Range, Adirondack High Peaks #26, 27 and 28. Hiked with Meenu, Mark & Kellie. This hike clocked in at just under 14 hours and just over 20 miles, though my Garmin battery died about 12.5 hours in and I had to record the rest via Strava on my phone (lest anything go undocumented!). It is arguably one of the hardest hikes of the 46 high peaks, and I would say that was true for me. It felt grueling and mentally exhausting as well as physically tough. We started at 5:45 am and ended about 7:40 pm. We had to hike out about 4 miles to a junction, then did a loop of 3 peaks and back to that junction to hike back out. The first peak, Santanoni, was the highest and had the steepest climb. We got to that summit in about 4 hours. We didn't stay long because the bugs were out in force and there wasn't much of a view on the summit. Great views at lookouts along the way though. The next peak, Couchsachraga was the lowest but the most grueling part of the hike, and is actually under 4000 ft so shouldn't even be in the high peaks. It is an offshoot from the loop that you have to hike out about 2.5 miles to get to the summit. It goes down in elevation a ton and then back up again, a..." — kvander • Jun 13, 2021

"Out on the first day of winter doing what we love ending with one of the best sunsets I have ever seen in the ADK hiking these two of three mountains that make up the Santanoni range, although we had to abort Santanoni because of pure exhaustion and light of day concidering the shortest day of the year, we did manage to climb w46er Couchsachraga, a grueling long hike then a quick hike up w46er Panther peak then back out, a four hour slog to the car. What an amazing day spent with like minded individuals, so many memories," — ramjet1963 • Dec 21, 2019

"17 miles in 12 hours. Hiked with Rylan and Tijan. Awesome day! Went up the express which wasn’t bad, over to Couch which was my favorite part of the hike. The view from Panther was incredible but the trek from Panther to Bradley pond sucked. What an awesome day!!" — Amanda46 • Aug 11, 2019

"Extreme weather - we climb these mountains during a heat advisory. We took every opportunity to refresh ourselves in Panther brook on the way. Couchsachraga and Panther were incredibly muddy. " — hiking-Brigitte • Jul 19, 2019

"Tom and I left Tawhus lot at 5:45 @ 59 degrees with calm and humid air. Hiked to "Time Square " and on to summit of Panther at 9 am. Left summit and back down to TS and off to Couchsachraga. Returned to car at 3:35. Black did not attend due to foot wound. " — garyogden • Jul 14, 2019

"Crazy day in the mountains with inspired 46ers Bill Houmiel 43/46 and Laurie Sargent 35/46 and my 26/46, Todays climb was to hike and concur the Santanoni Range, Panther ,Couch and Santanoni Peaks. Beautiful day out, not to hot and not to cold, very few bugs with a nice breeze to make every step enjoyable except the mud, I hate mud lol. Not really, I know its all apart of the activity of hiking in mountainous settings, Just over 19 miles,11 1/2hrs back to the car. Just wanted to encourage all my friends to get out and do what you love!" — ramjet1963 • Jun 15, 2019

"A wet Saturday, a great Marine Corp day to march through the slop of the Santanoni Range. We took off around 6:30am headed out to Bradley Pond and up the herd path to Herald Square and out to Panther 1st. No views, rain and mud was the theme of the hole trip. After descending Panther we hit Time Square had a snack and went on to Couch. By the time we hit the Couch summit there was hints of sun and views above the clouds. Left Couch, went back up to Time Square and out to Santanoni! Finally some sun and the skies were clear for pictures. Views North, South and East were great, unfortunately low clouds West killed those views. Spent some time at the summit then exited via the Santanoni Express trail." — hbotc • Aug 19, 2017

"Solo-ish. Santanoni (33), Couchsachraga (34), Panther (35), clockwise. Started out my day with an interesting encounter in the dark as I pulled into the parking area around 0500 & roused Arran Duncan, who was sleeping in his van. I later spent about half of the hike out in his company, though we started out separately. After leaving the summit of Couchsachraga with Arran leading the way, we passed about 5 other hikers. I successfully navigated the bog this time, and we made short work of arriving at Times Square again. We hung a left into the small clearing, and sat and took a break for a few minutes. After passing through the clearing we were in "Herald Square", and I knew that taking a right would lead us back down to Bradley Pond, and continuing straight/left would take us out to Panther. There are a lot of scribbly directions marked on trees and rocks in this area. We scooted out to the summit in about ten minutes. Lots of mud! Like. A lot of mud. Wow! As we topped out at the viewpoint rocks, we realized the true summit was in the trees just beyond a huge open mud pit (how does it stay so wet when it is in direct sunlight?). We navigated through that mostly successfully and to..." — kellieirene • Oct 7, 2016