AMC Four Thousand Footer Club

The Committee of the AMC Four Thousand Footer Club is comprised of volunteers who share your passion for hiking and the mountains.

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AMC Four Thousand Footer Committee
PO Box 444
Exeter, New Hampshire 03833-0444

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	Keith serves as the Committee Chair and has been a member for 18 years. His list completions include the WM4, NH100, NH3K, NH200, and other New England hiking lists.
	Brian has completed the WM4, WM4W, VT4, NH100, NH3K, NH200, NH300, YMCA Alpine Club 100, 52WAV, and the NH Firetower list and has hiked many peaks throughout New England. Currently, he's working on the WMNF redlining. He is the trail adopter for the Stony Brook trail with the US Forest Service. He is a longtime steering committee member for Flags On The 48 and he joined the AMC 4000 footer Committee in 2018.
	Deane has served on the Committee since 1982. He held the position of Chair for 8 years and has served as the Treasurer since 2007. He also serves as the NE111 Corresponding Secretary. His list completions in New England include the WM4K, WM4K Winter, NE4K, NE4W, NEH, NEHW, NE111, NE111W, NE3K, NH100, and the Catskill 3500. He was the first person to climb the VT3K Winter and the NH3K Winter. Outside New England he has hiked the Appalachian Trail and completed the US Continental Highpoints, the US Continental 14,000 Footers and the US Northwest Volcanoes. Internationally, he has climbed Mt. Aconcagua, Mt. Logan, Mt. Edith Cavell, Mt. Columbia, Popocatépetl, Pico de Orizaba and Iztaccihuatl. He has trekked to Everest Base Camp twice climbing Kala Patar each time. He currently is retired and lives in Concord, NH.
	Eric has completed the WM4, WM4W, NE4 and NEH, and has created additional lists, including the NHT3000. Having done a second round of the NEH with his daughter, he's back to working on the NH100, ADK46 and more winter lists. When he can't get away for a whole day in the big mountains, he explores, maps and measures local town forests. He is an AMC NH Chapter trip leader and a past Chapter Chair. Eric joined the committee in 2002, served as Chair for 13 years, and has been the Corresponding Secretary since 2004.
	Steve is co-editor of the AMC White Mountain Guide and is co-author (with former Committee member Mike Dickerman) of The 4000-Footers of the White Mountains. Steve is the proprietor of The Mountain Wanderer Map and Book Store in Lincoln, New Hampshire. He is a trail adopter with the WMNF (Kettles Path in Waterville Valley) and oversees maintenance on Passaconaway Cutoff, the Committee’s adopted trail. Steve has completed the WM4, WM4W, NE4, NEH, and 52WAV, and has also red-lined all the trails in the White Mountain Guide. He has climbed the Catskill 3500 peaks all-season and needs only 2 of the 4 required winter peaks to complete that list, and has climbed 28 of the ADK 46. Steve joined the Committee in the early 1990s.
	Gary has been a member of the AMC for more than 20 years. He has hiked various trails and peaks in Big Bend, Yosemite, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon, and Rocky Mountain National Parks. Gary completed the WM4 in 2005, the NE4 in 2007, the WM4W in 2010, the NH GRID (a.k.a. 576 or 48x12) in 2013, and the Four Season 4000-Footer award (WM4S) in 2015. He helped lead biannual Trail Maintenance Workshops in Skinner State Park and Mount Holyoke Range State Park for The Friends of the Mount Holyoke Range from 1999 to 2004. Since 2012, he has been a WMNF trail adopter for the portion of the Bondcliff Trail from Franconia Brook to Camp 16.
	New committee member as of 2025, Morgan serves as the Club’s webmaster. She completed the WM4 in August 2022, and since discovering the other lists at the Annual Awards Dinner, has been actively working towards completing each, as well as exploring other beautiful areas of the White Mountain region. She is an AMC member, who enjoys spending as much time as possible in the mountains, including volunteer trail maintenance. Morgan also loves trail running, endurance running competitions, swimming (and teaching swimming), photography, and editing videos. She spends her summer leading hiking trips in the White Mountains for campers ages 8-16. Morgan is extremely passionate about the White Mountains, and she thoroughly enjoys educating those interested in exploring New England about trail approaches, mountain facts/stats, and hiking tips while sharing photos/videos of her adventures.
	Michelle has been on the committee since May of 2021. She completed the WM4 in August of 2020, and completed the NE4 in January of 2024. She is a member of the AMC and enjoys spending her free time running, hiking, and traveling around the northeast. Michelle is also a charcoal artist whose works focus primarily on wildlife and nature.
	Fred joined the committee in 2025. He has completed the WM4, WM4W, NE4, and NEH. In the winters you will find him working on his NE4W, and NEHW lists and other times he is working on his WM4 four seasons list. Fred is an AMC member and avid hiker/backpacker with experience hiking and climbing in the Northeast and the Pacific Northwest. He has also run 16 marathons, including the Boston Marathon and the New York City Marathon, and enjoys outdoor adventures any time of the year.
	Joanna completed the WM4 at age 11, led by her father, Bruce O. Brown who was a local peakbagging legend and a former AMC 4000 Footer Club committee member. Thus, making her a second generation WM4 finisher and AMC 4000 Footer Club committee member. Fascinatingly enough, she remembers receiving her WM4 scroll in April, 1987 from current committee member, Deane Morrison. She is now three peaks away from completing the NE4 and is deep in the throes of the WM4W list. This fall, she completed another round of the WM4 with her two older children, making them third generation finishers of the WM4, fashioning the grit and determination, beauty and wonder of hiking the beloved White Mountains into a family tradition and legacy, started by, and dedicated to their grandfather, Bruce O. Brown. She continues to work on several lists including the NEH, ADK46, NE111 and the WM4S. She enjoys the trail work aspect associated with the Four Seasons patch. She joined the committee in April of 2022, and enjoys being the Program Coordinator for the Annual Awards event every year in April.
	Corey joined the committee in 2022 and serves as the vendor coordinator. He has completed the WM4, NE4, NE111, WM4W, wrapping up his winter NE4, and is over halfway through the grid. He has thru hiked the LT, CT, OCT & the TCT twice and holds several FKTs.
	Kimberly may be a newer addition to the committee, but she is not new to hiking. She has completed the WM4 Peak list, including winter (WM4W), and finished the 12x48 Grid list in August 2023. Her hiking adventures have taken her far beyond New England—she’s trekked the West Highland Way and Kelvin Way in Scotland, explored sections of the Southwest Coast Path in Cornwall, summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, and hiked in Switzerland and Iceland. When she’s not on the trail, Kimberly enjoys mountain biking, skiing, and ice climbing. While she’s not currently working on any specific hiking lists, she enjoys placing her focus on volunteering as a trailhead steward, doing trail work, promoting trail safety, and giving back to the outdoor community that has shaped so much of her journey.
	Amy joined the committee in 2024, she has completed the WM4 and is currently working on other lists including the WM4W, NE4, and the last 10% of redlining. She is a SOLO Wilderness First Aid certified member of the Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue team, as well as a trail adopter with the USFS maintaining the wilderness portion of the Highwater Trail. She also coordinates volunteer trail maintenance days with the USFS, if you would like information on upcoming trails days you can drop her an email at aslaferte@gmail.com.

History of the Four Thousand Footer Committee

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