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ADK May-July2006b MAY-JULY 2006 No. 0603 chepontuc — “Hard place to cross”, Iroquois reference to Glens Falls hepontuc ootnotes C THE NEWSLETTER OF THE GLENS FALLS-SARATOGAF CHAPTER OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB GLENS FALLS-SARATOGA CHAPTER ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB Membership Picnic Moreau Lake State Park (on the beach by the volleyball court) Exit 17S of the Northway Saturday, June 17, 2006 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Registrations must be received $5/person • $20/family maximum by June 7! (5 years and younger FREE) You are invited to join your fellow Glens Falls-Saratoga Chapter members at Moreau Lake State Park for a day of fun and relaxation. There will be opportuni- ties to participate in easy and moderate level hikes. Bring your own canoe/kayak for a group led paddle on the lake or Hudson River or simply come and enjoy the beach and maybe a pick-up game of volleyball.This is the perfect opportunity to bring a friend or relative and introduce them to the ADK and our Chapter. YMore details and registration form, page 2. Glens Falls-Saratoga Chapter ADK Membership Picnic The Cost: $5.00/person Maximum $20.00/family for the picnic (5 yrs. and younger free) Regretfully, no refunds can be given. Reservations are required and must be received NO LATER than June 7, 2006. *PLEASE NOTE: A $7.00/car parking fee will be collected by Moreau Lake State Park personnel upon entering the park — carpooling and early arrival is encouraged — once the daily parking quota has been reached, no further vehicles will be allowed to enter the park eveneven if yyouou havehave alralreadyeady made rreservationseservations forfor the picnic.picnic. Menu for the day: To enhance seating, Coldcut platters with rolls and bread if you have lawn chairs, Cold salads, PotatoPotato Chips, Pickles, OlivOlives,es, Cookie TTrayray please bring them! Soda will be prprovidedovided — if yyouou desirdesiree other bebeverages,verages, youyou areare invitedinvited to bring youryour oownwn in non-glass containers Tentative Schedule of Chapter-led Activities: 10:15 a.m. Around Mud Pond Nature Hike (approximately 1.5 hr. easy hike) 10:15 a.m. Moreau Lake Paddle (bring your own vessel — easy around the lake paddle) 12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:30 p.m. Ridge Overlook Hike (Moderate) 2:30 p.m. Hudson River Paddle (bring your own vessel) — easy/moderate flat water paddle RESERVATION FORM GF-S Chapter Membership Picnic • Saturday, June 17, 2006 • Moreau Lake State Park • 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Name: Telephone Number: Total Number Attending: _________at $5.00/person — $20.00/family maximum (5 yrs. of age and younger free) (SORRY NO REFUNDS CAN BE GIVEN FOR ANY REASON) Make checks payable to: Glens Falls-Saratoga Chapter ADK Return reservation form with payment to arrive no later than June 7, 2006, to: Pat Desbiens, 16A Rovanten Park, Ballston Lake, NY 12019 For questions, please call: 518-899-9688 or e-mail: [email protected] Work, relaxation hepontuc ootnotes C PublishedF Bimonthly Glens Falls-Saratoga Chapter ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB P.O. Box 2314 Glens Falls, NY 12801 mark spring www.adk-gfs.org EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers: BY JIM SCHNEIDER Chair Jim Schneider 30 Elizabeth Lane, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phone: 581-9367 • E-mail: [email protected] First Vice Chair Lisa Bowdey his is an exciting time of Bring your family and friends. Weʼll Phone: NA • E-mail: [email protected] Second Vice Chair Patrick McCullough year as the woods come have paddling and hiking activities, 13 Triphammer Road, Queensbury, NY 12804 Phone: 798-3186 • E-mail: [email protected] alive. Trillium and trout lil- but you can just sit around and relax if Third Vice Chair Heidi teReile 25 Black Point Road, Ticonderoga, NY 12883 Ties may surprise you you prefer. I hope to see Phone: NA CHAPTER CHAIR Secretary Anne Paolano around the next bend in you there. 11 Brookshire Trace, Queensbury, NY 12804 Phone: 798-3055 • E-mail: [email protected] the trail. You might spot Your chapter execu- Treasurer John Schneider 6 Nonchalant Dr., Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 clintonia also known as Report tive committee has Phone: 584-8527 • E-mail: [email protected] Directors blue bead lily. You are been working hard on Maureen Coutant 22 Pinion Pine Lane., Queensbury, NY 12804 Come out and enjoy likely to have a delicious a number of projects. Phone: 745-7834 • E-mail: [email protected] John Schneider combination of hot sun the warmer weather We have our spring See Treasurer contact information above Past Chapter Chair Barbara Bave 77 East High St., Ballston Spa, NY 12020 and a cool breeze. You at our Membership trail work menu set. Phone: 885-3604 • E-mail: [email protected] can look deep into the Picnic, or lend a hand Weʼll be out working woods at land forms on the Northville-Placid Committee Chairs: with trail work. Annual Dinner Susan Hamlin and vistas that will soon trail and the Tongue 44 Wright Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phone: 587-5456 • E-mail: [email protected] disappear when the trees Mountain trails. We are Conservation Jacki Bave 14 Round Table Rd., Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 leaf out. Around the middle of May as sponsoring a number of young people Phone: 587-3754 • E-mail: [email protected] Education Linda Ranado you look down and across the wood- to participate in ADKʼs teen trail work 18 Pine Ridge Road, Hadley, NY 12835 E-mail: [email protected] lands from Sleeping Beauty; notice the projects this summer. As well, we Hospitality Gretchen Steen 2217 County Route 46, Fort Edward, NY 12828 swath of chartreuse. Itʼs the only time are once again, sponsoring students Phone: 638-6139 • E-mail: [email protected] Membership Pat Desbiens of year you will see this soft soothing attending New York Department of 16A Rovanten Park, Ballston Lake, NY 12019 Phone: 899-9688 • E-mail: [email protected] shade of green which represents newly Environmental Conservationʼs youth Newsletter/Editor Jim Schneider 30 Elizabeth Lane, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 emerging tree buds. This is a magical environmental camps. Phone: 581-9367 • E-mail: [email protected] Outings Patti Schwankert time in the woods when winter has A huge thank you goes to Eric 2A Woodcliff Dr., Clifton Park, NY 12065 Phone: 371-5510 • E-mail: [email protected] past and the black flies and mosqui- Freeman, the keeper of our website, Program Jean Holcomb 30 Schuyler Dr., Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 toes still have not hatched. Get out and which is rapidly becoming the main Phone: 583-0658 • E-mail: [email protected] Publicity John Caffry 25 Wing St., Glens Falls, NY 12801 enjoy it. information source for our chapter Phone: 798-0624 • E-mail: [email protected] Trails Tom Ellis Iʼm looking forward to our chapter members. Eric has done a fabulous 2217 County Route 46, Fort Edward, NY 12828 Phone: 638-6139 • E-mail: [email protected] gathering on Saturday, June 17, at job designing and updating. Go Web site Eric Freeman 7 Fairmount Drive, Gansevoort, NY 12831 Moreau Lake State Park. It will be a ahead and bookmark http://www.adk- Phone: 581-9279 • E-mail: [email protected] Wilderness Dan DʼAngelico day to relax with friends old and new. gfs.org/ or better yet, set it as you 3258 State Route 4, Hudson Falls, NY 12839 Phone: 747-0700 • E-mail: [email protected] Good food and drink will be on hand. homepage. Big Water! RAFTING THE COLORADO RIVER The Colorado River starts in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and flows southwest for 1,470 miles to the Gulf of California (the Sea of Cortez) in Mexico. The 1,360 miles of its route in the United States makes it the nationʼs fifth longest river. It drains a large portion of the North American continent cov- Tering 242,000 square miles in the U.S. and 3,000 square miles in Mexico. For more than 1000 miles, the upper and middle portions of this magnificent river and its tributaries — the Virgin, Kanab, Paria, Escalante, Dirty Devil and Green rivers from the west; the Little Program Colorado, San Juan, Dolores and Gunnison form the east — cut a ‘BIG WATER: spectacular labyrinth of RAFTING THE COLORADO’ deep gorges. The longest WHEN: 7 P.M. and most spectacular THURSDAY, MAY 18 of these canyons is the WHAT: TALK, Grand Canyon, extend- SLIDE SHOW ing from the mouth of the Paria to Grand Wash WHERE: Stream. SARATOGA SPRINGS Screaming through PUBLIC LIBRARY the Grand Canyon like a COMMUNTIY ROOM horizontal waterfall on drugs the Colorado River is one of the wildest rides on the planet. Find out how three Glens Falls/Saratoga Chapter Forty-Sixers and a forty-sixerʼs son: Dan DʼAngelico, Al Ferte, Pat McCullough and Shamus McCullough, fared on their trip down the mother of all big waters. The Adirondackers, as they came to be known, started at the South Rim of the canyon, hiked down to the Phantom Ranch, and then spent the next eight Back row, from left: Pat McCullough, Dan D’Angelico. Middle row: unknown. days and seven nights rafting over one hundred miles Front row, from left: Al Fertel, Shamus McCullough. of the big C. At Whitmore Wash where the trip ended they were helicoptered back to civilization. The cating to New Jersey with her husband. guides, with four passenger boats and two supply boats, start- Enjoy the huge rapids, the tranquil flat water, side hikes into ed at Leeʼs Ferry seven days earlier and when they reached the canyon, camps and interesting stories.
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