Recent content by BigJax

Thank you Thank you everyone for the replies, they have been a huge help in choosing the route. We are now leaning towards starting at the other end of the Burroughs trail and hiking first up Wittenberg, and then on to Cornell. If we still have enough legs (taking into account the return trip)...

beautiful Thanks Daniel for the specifics, all that's left is to choose the route! Much appreciated.

So the Palisades p'way hits 87 after the GW then rejoins it up north more? What is the road number of palisades? Or would signs actually say 'palisades parkway'?

Vandalay industries? Latex ;) "You're my latex salesman? I don't think so."

I don't have my trail maps on hand so I'll have to talk from memory (unless someone can point me to an online map of the slide/wittenberg area). Our plan was to do Phoenicia-East to Curtiss-Ormsbee to Wittenberg-Slide to the summit of slide, then back via Wittenberg-Slide to Phoenicia-East to...

Ok great, that'll be my route then. Anyone have any comments on the trail that I posted above? Especially the one-day-hikeability and off-trail things-to-see parts?

Rush hour shouldn't be much of a factor since we will be leaving Brooklyn on Saturday morning around 6:30 am. 278 runs up from Brooklyn right to 87 in the Bronx...I figure I'll just take that route and then follow 87 up to 28 west. Is 28 west exit 19 on 87? It seems that after being on 87 for...

Hey all- My girlfriend and I are taking a trip up to the 'skills this saturday to hike slide mountain. Does anybody have any tips on driving directions from new york city? Mapquest tells us to get on 87 north and exit to 28 west, but it seems to be a different way to get on 87 than I'm used...

Thanks for all the replies, they were very helpful. Rick- my only concern for going immediately to a top-end pack is that I'm not POSITIVE that I'll be using it for the next decade. The fact is that we are excited as heck to get out on the trail, but....it'll essentially be our first hike. If I...

Thanks for the info Bob, I'm going to an EMS store after work today. It seems that the consensus on the topic is to just try on as many as you can until one feels comfortable. I'm a tall guy, 6'3"-6'4"ish; I wonder if that will limit the options available to me. I have been wondering if I...

Hello, This is my first post here. I've recently become interested in hiking, and my girlfriend and I are taking our first trip next weekend: a day hike in the catskills, probably Slide Mountain. I would like to pick up a mid-sized and inexpensive pack for the first trip, and if we decide to...