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If you're camping out, or even if you're home and have to set the alarm, this will be worth seeing. The viewing conditions should be good. Half a degree of separation is really close. If conditions are excellent Mars (near the horizon) and Mercury should also be visible. Space Weather News...

Starting at 7:23 pm here in the mid-Hudson Valley. Rising in the WNW with an altitude of 33 degrees, will traverse to the S. This is rare, so hopefully conditions will be good. There will also be two flyovers tomorrow evening, the first at 6:14 pm.

http://www.thedailymail.org/articles/2010/07/10/news/doc4c38079d7eb50819175404.txt This is going to be great. A new 350 foot bridge is going to be transported from Coeymans, just south of Albany, to NJ on Tuesday. They are using two barges and this thing is so big that it is going to restrict...

Did trail maintenance Sunday, an Easter tradition. The trail is clear and dry, only the usual wet spots. The snow is gone. Met a section hiker from Virginia, an overnight backpacker and many day hikers. All reported conditions on the AT further down the Riga Plateau to be "excellent." FYI...

This short overnight got off to a late start. I pulled into the trailhead parking lot for Colgate Lake around 7 pm. At the trail register I signed in for Beaver Meadow, about a 2.5 mile hike. My object was to camp under clear skies and watch for meteors. Just a few steps past the register, a...

4/12/09 Conditions: All cleared. Dry. Comments: I finished clearing this section on Easter. There is still some tangle if you're approaching the AT from Race Brook Falls Trail, but it is passable. Thanks to all the hikers passing through who took time to throw blowdown off the trail.

I caught the space station from my campsite at Gay's Point on the Hudson River Tuesday night. It came into view in the southwest at 7:41 and made a six minute transit to the northeast. Very impressive - as bright as Venus, fast and silent. The Discovery had docked to it a few hours before...

Two friends of mine would like the experience of staying overnight in a lean-to. They would need to bring their car-camping air mattresses, which are inflated with a small battery-operated pump. I'm not sure of the dimensions, but they are quite a bit larger than the standard self-inflating...

4/1/08 After reading Jay's post, I think my trip was actually sillier. The dilemma: It had been puzzling me for some time: how could I get across to Roger's Island in the Hudson River from my house? Roger's Island is an untrammeled paradise, a long slice of island north of Catskill and south...

Race Brook Falls Trail from Rt. 41 to Mt. Everett (on AT) 3/24/08 Trail conditions: Bare ground, dry with leaves all the way to the upper falls. Then mostly bare with some sections of ice. There is ice in the ravine as far as Race Brook Falls campsite. From the campsite on, there is 1-2...

I just spent eight nights camping in Everglades National Park, my first-ever visit to the main park. The Everglades sustained major damage in 2005 from hurricanes Katrina and then a month later Wilma. It took a lot of work to re-open the marked water trails. It's a great winter destination for...

Like everyone else in the Hudson Valley, I woke up this morning to a fairyland of white - a sticky seven inches of snow fell overnight near Hudson, and it clung to everything, transforming the landscape. Adding to the surreal effect, a fog hung over the river. I could barely wait to get out...

One last summer-like overnight on the river: that's what I was thinking when it was so balmy and humid on Monday. It was late when I launched from the Hudson boat launch, 5:45 pm. I worked my way north along the east shore of Middle Ground Flats. By the time I reached the northern tip of the...

I checked out this new park for the first time this week. Due to the excessive rain, High Falls was roaring. If you're driving to the Berkshires this would be a good destination to incorprate. It's only a half mile walk to the falls, but at 150 feet high they are quite spectacular. Until...

I'm new to snowshoeing and have some questions: 1. What is the difference between snowshoes that are oval at both ends and those that come to a point in the back? 2. For general conditions - not for breaking trail, but general broken-out conditions - are those spring-loaded snowshoes that...