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10 years ago a wonderful event was organized in celebration of Grace's completion of her 46. I was hoping that it would be repeated.

On the summit of Cornell Mountain. Not expensive, but I would like to have then back. This was on Sat. Aug. 29, around 3:45 PM.

OK- I just don't get this thing about leaving your used toilet paper lying around. I guess it is a good warning to let people know that that spot has been soiled ;-p, but seriously it is not only ugly, but unclean to do this. I was really offended by the sight of a large lump of toilet paper...

I recently visited the Burroughs Range and found the conditions were pretty dry up there. This may be true for the rest of the higher elevations. BUT, the two springs on many maps (the one high up on Slide Mountain and the one in the Cornell/Slide col) were both running. I thought I'd mention it...

on your travels. Last year I saw quite alot in the areas where they are known to brood. Especially in Harriman State Park, NYS. This year I heard some vocalizations there. I am interested in your photos and observations. Here is a beauty shot of one (m. Septendecim) photographed in Rockland...

Chewing up my tent.:eek: I am beginning to feel like I somehow contracted bad karma with the rodents. :confused: I have had two separate incidents in two widely spaced areas where while I was asleep a rodent of some kind came and chewed up the netting of my tent. One was in Harriman in 2011 and...

WALLFACE MOUNTAIN “DIVIDE” BUSHWHACK OCTOBER 19,2013 ROUTE; A” circular” bushwhack and trail hike; starting and finishing at Scott Pond, travelling over the summit of Wallface Mountain from one watershed (St. Lawerance Seaway) to another (Hudson River) and up the Brook that drains from the...

The trail to this summit appears to be unmaintained or maintained in very poor shape, but that does not stop Woodstrider from giving it the old school try. I saw the trail on the USGS map and it starts right at Long Lake and follows the south side of a lively stream for about half the trail...

SO- this year is leap year and we get an extra day to play- one that comes around only once every 4 years. Someone decided it would be an extra winter day- that makes it only more special. HOW WILL YOU SPEND IT? I am considering either Mount Marcy (and what ever other peaks I can do before I...

Does anyone know the condition of this trail.

So- I am relaxing at home this afternoon when all of a sudden things just started to shake rattle and roll. Every mirror and every framed picture, even the book shelves all started to sway back and forth and flop around and knock against the walls. I grabbed one tall book shelf that I thought...

Now the hiking public has to contend with west point cadets doing exercises in Harriman State Park! :p:mad::eek: Two weeks ago I was tucked away in an off the beaten path spot in the Park when, all day, wave after wave of camo'ed atired face painted cadets came crashing thru the laurels and...

If sometimes happens once in a blue moon, how often will it occur? Well, loosely speaking, it is approximately every two-three years. and quess what...this month is a "Blue Moon" month- there will be two full moons within one month. One full moon already occured, but there is one to go. I'm...

Aug. 26-29, 2009 This is one of my favorite "local" hiking and backpacking areas. In fact my first backpack was to this range and I sorta fell in love with the area. A year later I would become a volunteer trail maintainer, maintaining a section of the Wittenberb/Slide Trail, AKA Burroughs...

I am planning a trip to Ox Hollow, Town of Chichester, in order to access Westkill form the east. Does any of you Catskills mavins know if there is any parking near there?

I have a question concerning the Adirondack 100 highest- do any of them have canisters or summit registers on them? Or benchmarks to find? Thanks to all the experts out there.

After a long and splendid career my trusty Garuda single wall tent has a fatal illness- "delaminitis". On a recent and rather wet backpacking trip over the New Year's weekend I was alarmed to find that my tent had gone from leaky boat to sinking ship. I found that the single wall material, which...

So, as I am walking along today I was thinking on a series of hikes that I have made over the years to Pikes Peak, CO. IT got me thinking about an incident on one of those trips that I think about and wish that I had "gone the other way". I have relatives that live in Mantiou Springs, Co and...

What is the most interesting thing that you have carried in your pack as a good luck charm. Personally I don't seem to have anything in my bag that is really a good luck charm, as everything is really of importance.

I was recently hiking in HSP and found a new burn area of several acres between Lk Wanoksink and Pime Meadow Lk. Any one know more about this event? I noticed that along Wanoksink, the burn did not jump the trail and so there is a fringe of live plants between the trail and the lake...