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While new rock routes continued to spring up on Adirondack roadside crags, the establishment of Panther's Fang didn't seem to inspire others to explore the Gorge's unclimbed cliffs until the dry-weather summers of 2003 and 2004. Panther Gorge: Call of Ice and Stone ADVENTURE-SEEKING individuals - climbers and hikers - occasionally visit the recesses of Panther Gorge, a remote pass between Mt. Marcy and Mt. Haystack in the Adirondack High Peaks region of New York. Because of its remote setting, Panther Gorge remained beyond the edges of most climbers' consciousnesses until 1936 when Jim Goodwin guided two twelve-year-old boys up a line "about three-quarters of the way to the floor of the Gorge, to the base of the highest cliffs on the Marcy side." The first named route in the Gorge didn't appear until nearly thirty years later, when local caretakers Craig Patterson and Ronald Dubay climbed a plumb line up a vertical crack on Marcy's northernmost cliff and named it "Panther's Fang.". [Extracted from the article]