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FOOTHILLS TRAIL CLUB TALES MARCH 2018

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President, Donna Flood Program Chair, Weekend Hikes, Kathy Foote Yahoo! 5010 Salt Road, Clarence, NY 14031 349 Wimbledon Court, West Seneca 14224 759-6442 675-3989 [email protected] [email protected] Join the Foothills Yahoo Group Email List to learn of hiking and trail Vice President, Claudia Lawler Publicity Chair, Ellen Banks work opportunities. This is an email 105 Nadine Drive, Cheektowaga 14225 144 Cottonwood Drive, Williamsville 14221 group restricted to Foothills 572-8497 435-5105 members and the only emails you [email protected] [email protected] will receive will be from members of Treasurer, Jim Beardsley TALES Editor, Carol Kobrin the Foothills Yahoo Group. If you are 83 Bryant Street, Apt 9D, Buffalo 14209 6506 Amy Lane, Lockport 14094 a member of Foothills but not of the [email protected] 912-0370 Yahoo Group, it is very easy to join. [email protected] Secretary, Wendy Edson 209 Maple Avenue, Hamburg 14075 Trail Steward Coordinator, Don Bergman Send an email to foothillstrailclub- 512-0124 5383 Tonawanda Creek Road, NT 14120 [email protected]. You [email protected] 625-8746 will receive an email back with [email protected] instructions. If you have any diﬃculties, please call Sally Archivist, Kirk Doyle Trails Administrator, Mike Schlicht 5205 Glendale Avenue, Hamburg 14074 30 Temple Drive, Buffalo, 14225 Hardenburg at 716-392-3019 or 627-4199 316-4388 Jeanne Moog at 716-652-6190. [email protected] [email protected]

Circulation Manager, Barbara Morrisey Three-Year Director, Sharon Kelly 1533 Sundance Trail, Lakeview 14085 2905 Four Rod Road, East Aurora 14052 627-3878 655-5248 Disclaimers [email protected] [email protected] As a courtesy to our members, End-To-End Coordinator, Shari Senefelder Three-Year Director, Dee McCarthy w e f r e q u e n t l y p r o v i d e 27 Patricia Drive, Tonawanda 14150 [email protected] information about events 694-4346 s p o n s o r e d b y o t h e r Three-Year Director, Marty Ruszaj Membership Chair, Roy Tocha 82 Misty Lane, East Amherst 14051 organizations. Unless published 11 N. Eaglecrest Drive, Hamburg 14074 689-4177 in the Foothills Trail Club [email protected] [email protected] schedule, these events are not FTC outings. They are merely Program Chair, Tuesday Saunters, Gayle Syty One-Year Director, Lori Chiarilli items of interest and anyone 70 Pheasant Run Road, Amherst 14228 [email protected] wanting more information should 691-6750 c o n t a c t t h e a p p r o p r i a t e One-Year Director, Sally Hardenburg organization. Program Chair, Wed Mini Hikes, David Wittmann 123 Ranch Trail West, Williamsville 14221 109 Nason Parkway, Lackwanna 14218 392-3019 823-8156 [email protected]

TALES is a bi-monthly newsletter devoted to informing club members about club business, activities and hikes, as well as about environmental issues related to trails and hiking, and other items of interest to hikers.

If you have an article of interest, please send it to the TALES editor. Please keep your submissions to a reasonable length and write or type clearly. If an article cannot be included in an issue, every effort will be made to put it in the next issue. Submitted articles may be edited if necessary. Please remember to include your name and contact information with your submitted material.

Deadline for the May issue is April 1st. TALES MARCH 2018

NEWS FROM THE FOOTHILLS COUNCIL

The FTC Board of Directors met on January 29th. Meeting highlights include:

• Nominations are being accepted for open positions. President Donna Flood announced that she will step down at the end of her term. • Marty Ruszaj will present a program at the Annual Banquet on local outdoor Meetup groups and how Foothills can increase membership, hike participation, and other beneﬁts by coordinating with Meetups. • Trail Work ahead….there is much trail work to be done in Spring 2018. Check out the March/April hike schedule for trail work days, and watch for mail in Yahoo Groups for speciﬁc information.

Its Time to Renew Your Membership Remember to Respect Landowner Rights Hello Foothills, March 31st is approaching. Another membership year has nearly passed and the renewal form Stay on the trail, don’t take shortcuts, don’t is included in this TALES (page 5). If your renewal is due, walk on crops, don’t build fires or camp on please renew using the renewal form or via Paypal. Some private land, NEVER EVER enter of you have an automatic renewal with Paypal, so you do landowner buildings…..and don’t park too not need to do anything. If you would like to know if your close to driveways. m e m b e r s h i p i s l a p s i n g , c o n t a c t m e a t [email protected] .

Your membership dues supports the Conservation Trail, Wintering Away ?? multiple hikes scheduled every week all over WNY, and the TALES which is published six times a year. The dues If you are a member or landowner who is spending the also pays for insurance and supports trail maintenance winter months elsewhere, let Barb Morrissey know supplying signs, paint, tools and publicity and promotion. and she will make sure the TALES is mailed to your

Thank You and Happy Trails, Roy winter address. Contact Barb at 716-627-3878.

Thank Yo, Thank Yo, Thank Yo

Throughout the years, we have had donors who have consistently made donations to the FLTC with speciﬁc instructions that their donations go directly to Foothills Trail Club.

We would like to take this opportunity, long overdue as it may be, to thank Quinn Wright, Mary Domanski, Sue Collier, and Anonymous for continuing to promote the FTC and Conservation Trail. Their generous contributions have amounted to more than $2300 for trail work. We are so appreciative of their support.

Foothills Trail Club www.foothillstrailclub.org 2 TALES MARCH 2018

Annual Dinner Meeting Friday, April 13, 2018 Banchetti’s Banquet Facility and Grove 550 North French Road Amherst, NY 14228

Please join us for our Annual Dinner Meeting. The evening will provide a great opportunity to visit with members you’ve hiked with, meet new members and make new friends.

There will be a 50/50 raﬄe.

We are also seeking donations for door prizes. If you wish to donate a gift to be raﬄed oﬀ at the dinner, please feel free to being one that evening, or get it to anyone on the Board who you know is attending, or to Claudia Lawler who can bring it for you.

6:00 PM Social Hour and Cash Bar 7:00 PM Dinner 8:30 PM Meetup Group Presentation by Marty Ruszaj, followed by Meeting and Elections

Chef Salad, Relish Tray, Vegetable Platter, Dinner Rolls & Butter, Chef’s Seasonal Vegetable Medley, Penne Broccoli Alfredo, Roasted Baby Red & White Potatoes, Bourbon Chicken, Stuﬀed Roast Pork Loin. Coﬀee, Tea and Ice Cream.

Gluten free meals are available – please indicate if you need gluten free.

The cost is $25.00 per person. Reserve now – the deadline is Wednesday, March 22, 2017 ______

Send this form with a check payable to: Foothills Trail Club

Mail to: Claudia Lawler, 105 Nadine Drive, Cheektowaga, NY 14225

NAME: ______# ATTENDING: ______

TELEPHONE: ______GLUTEN FREE: ______

Foothills Trail Club www.foothillstrailclub.org 3 TALES MARCH 2018 You Should Be A Member of the Finger Lakes Trail Conference The letter below was written by Gary Mallow, President of the Cayuga Trails Club. A worthwhile read. Support for the FLTC and the branch trails is vitally important. Please encourage your hiking friends who have not yet joined FTC and FLTC to do so.

When I started seriously hiking in the Tompkins County work crews every summer to build bridges, lean-tos, rustic trail area, I was clueless… all right, my fans will now be snickering that I stairways, puncheons and other trail structures. The under-the-radar am STILL clueless about a lot of things. What I am specifically work is done in meetings with DEC foresters and private referring to is my lack of knowledge about trails in our area. landowners. A healthy, working relationship with the folks who own Who owned the land I was hiking on, and who cut the private land, and with our public servants who manage public land, trails? Was it some anonymous public agency that created them out is key to the future of the trail. of a sense of public service? Who kept the blazing maintained, the None of us trail maintaining and hosting clubs would have trailheads open, the brush cut back, the bridges in good repair, and anything except crude maps of our own sections without the the dead-fall cleared? Who built the huts (I would not have called extensive mapping program provided by the FLTC. And if we pay them “lean-to's,” as that was not a word in my lexicon then), and attention, our maps, both local and distant, can be up to date within kept them maintained? It never occurred to me that many of the moments! Fun things like spring and fall weekends are organized trails I hiked on were private lands that I hiked with the generous plus county hike series offer easy ways to handle the logistics of permission of landowners, but even if I did recognize it, I wouldn't transportation along the trail in counties far from home. have given it much thought. In my opinion, the most critical work the FLTC does on The fact is that I didn't care. I just wanted to get out, away behalf of hikers is securing the long term future of the FLT, and this from crowds and noise and traffic, and the cares of everyday life. A goes back to the changing nature of this and every hiking trail. few years later, a lot of miles on my boots, a lot of Tuesday night Although most hikers don't realize it, we are, in fact, competing for hikes, and I've come to the conclusion I'm not alone. Many hikers the use of the land we hike across; there is no guarantee that the don't care how the trails and the infrastructure that supports them natural areas we love to hike through will remain relatively were built, or how they're maintained. They just want to get outside. undisturbed unless they are protected in some way. Beyond that, It was a mistake for me to have this attitude back then, and it's a access to those lands has to be assured, preferably in a legally mistake now. Here's why: binding way, such as a trail easement, in order to assure the FLT will Hiking trails are not static, unchanging things. This is be routed through these lands. especially true of the primary long distance trail that snakes through We have recently read of the purchase of a key property in our area, the Finger Lakes Trail, but it is also true of the Cayuga Danby. The FLT has crossed that land for many years, but trail Trail, the recreation trails near Ithaca, the trails in the land trust access for hikers would likely have been lost had the trail preserves and in the parks. Trails change when Mother Nature conference and land trust not intervened with a major investment of forces a reroute, or when foresters decide to allow logging. Trails time, energy and money from the Ed Sidote Fund. What the close or are rerouted when private landowners sell or subdivide (as conference has already done is terrific. But I am hopeful that the is their right), and, tragically, trail sections close when hikers abuse FLTC will do more in the future to secure the trail in our area by the privilege, irritating private landowners. Trails are more like living doing what was done in Danby: purchasing vulnerable undeveloped things… they transform to adjust to the changing realities of land properties to assure the trail continues to be a quiet hike in the use in New York. I see nothing on the horizon that is likely to change woods, rather than a hot, sweaty slog on a road. that. If anything, quite the contrary. Real estate development In the end, it's your call. You can be like me when I started pressures and logging are increasing in intensity. These activities are hiking here: I was blithely unaware of the amount of work it took just drivers of our economy, but anyone with their eyes open can see to provide me with an afternoon's quiet walk in the woods. I didn't they threaten the viability of hiking trails. know and didn't care. I am a little older and, I hope, a little wiser. I For the Finger Lakes Trail, the bulwark against these know how privileged I am to have a great hiking trail so close and so pressures is the Finger Lakes Trail Conference. The FLTC, as it is accessible. known by insiders, does some of the simple but necessary work To join the FLTC, and to donate to the Ed Sidote Fund or that we all take for granted. The green-and-yellow signs at the other funds, go to: fingerlakestrail.org, go to the Members menu, trailheads come from the conference. The standards for trail and click on: “Join/Renew.” Do it to increase your awareness, and corridors – the trail is a minimum 3 x 8 feet, blazing is white for the to support the jewel we call the Finger Lakes Trail. main trail, orange for spurs and loops, blue for lean-tos and privies – was worked out by the Conference. The chainsaw training that Editor’s Note: To join the Foothills Trail Club, use the form volunteer sawyers are required to complete is provided at no cost to found on page 5 of this TALES, Or via our website at the sawyers. FLTC organizes, funds, feeds and houses volunteer http://www.foothillstrailclub.org/membership.html

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MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM

Membership in the Foothills Trail Club is from April 1st to March 31st the following year. If you have not already renewed your membership, please do so now! Membership dues is $22 per individual or $30 per family per year. $5 of each member’s dues will be set aside to be used for trail maintenance and trail construction costs. Dues can be paid in advance for subsequent years. Your yearly membership entitles you to a copy of the bi-monthly TALES/hiking schedule and the accumulation of miles hiked and/or work party hours for award of bunion badges.

Please complete and submit the form below. You may also renew (or join) online by going to www.foothillstrailclub.org and then clicking on Membership.

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Make checks payable to: Foothills Trail Club

Send this form and your check to the Membership Chair: Roy Tocha 11 N Eaglecrest Dr Hamburg, NY 14075

Foothills Trail Club www.foothillstrailclub.org 5 TALES MARCH 2018

Upcoming Events and Activities

March 26, 2018 Foothills Board Meeting, 6:30 pm Reinstein Library, Losson Road, all are welcome Cheektowaga

April 13, 2018 Foothills Annual Spring Banquet Banchetti’s by Rizzo details this TALES, page 3

April 14, 2018 Foothills Trail Stewards Meeting Holland Community Center, Legion details this TALES, page 6 Drive, Holland

April 28, 2018 FLTC Wally Wood Spring Hike Tompkins County, Map M16 http://www.ﬂtconference.org/trail/ whats-happening/hikes/wood- hike/

May 4-5-6-7, 2018 Spring Trail Clean Up Work Party Alllegany State Park details this TALES, page 6

May 12, 2018 Holland Tulip Festival We are looking for volunteers to help staﬀ our table. This is a very well attended event and provides an invaluable opportunity to talk about the Conservation Trail and Foothills Trail Club.

May 21, 2018 Foothills Board Meeting, 6:30 pm Reinstein Library, Losson Road, all are welcome Cheektowaga

June 8-10, 2018 FLTC Spring Weekend Lions Camp Badger, Spencer, NY, details are forthcoming hosted by Cayuga Trails Club

September 22, 2018 Foothills Fall Potluck and Meeting Sprague Brook Park details are forthcoming

September 28, 2018 North Country National Scenic Trail details are forthcoming Day Celebration

TRAIL WORK

Greetings to all trail workers. It has been a very topics that are a concern. Please call Jeanne Moog or changeable winter weather season. Hopefully most of Don Bergman with any thoughts you have for agenda the trails are in good shape despite the weather. All trail items. stewards should check their trails as soon as possible. The club is planning on spending May 4-5-6-7 in Work on the trails will begin as weather permits. Allegany State Park doing Spring clean up work. We are trying to set up the use of a couple of cabins as the The annual Trail Stewards Meeting will be April 14th at park has not been able to ﬁnd any available cabins for the Holland Community Center at 12:00 PM. A Foothills our use. Please let Jeanne or Don know about your hike is scheduled for that morning at 9:30 at Emery availability. Park. You may wish to participate in both. The meeting will follow the hike, and the club will supply lunch. We As always, if you have questions or need help on the will discuss areas needing trail work and any other trail call Jeanne or Don.

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Meetup Groups

Meetup is an online social networking service intended for people to organize online and join group meetings/events face-to-face. Through Meetup, you can meet people in your local community who share your interests.

Foothills is starting conversations with local hiking Meetup groups for purposes of coordinating hikes and increasing Club membership.

Come to our Annual Banquet on April 13 to learn more about Meetup and how we can beneﬁt by coordinating with Meetups.

The Annual Banquet RSVP Reservation Form is found in this TALES on page 3.

Town of Holland Bicentennial

Foothills Trail Club is sponsoring a “200 Hike Series” along the section of the Conservation Trail that runs through Holland in conjunction with the Town of Holland Bicentennial activities. There is no charge to participate in the hike series. Seven hikes are scheduled, each hike is 4-5 miles in length, and the entire series encompasses 30 miles. The schedule is as follows:

May 5th, 12:00 noon - meet at Hunters Creek Park in Wales, 3.6 miles May 19th, 9:30 am - meet at Hunters Creek Park Wales 4.3 miles June 9th, 9:30 am - meet at Humphries Road in Holland 4.3 miles June 23rd, 9:30 am - meet at Humphries Road in Holland, 5 miles July 14th, 9:30 am - meet at Holland Speedway entrance in Holland, 4.3miles July 28th, 9:30 am - meet at Holland Speedway entrance in Holland, 4.5 miles August 11th, 9:30 am - meet at Middle Road trail head in Sardinia, 4.2 miles

More details about the hikes may be found at http://www.townofhollandny.com/trail.pdf

Many volunteers are needed for the hikes, including leaders and sweeps, and drivers to help carpool participants to the start of the hikes. If you can help out, please contact Annette Brzezicki [email protected] or Mike Schlicht at [email protected].

Foothills Trail Club www.foothillstrailclub.org 7 FOOTHILLS TRAIL CLUB Hike Rating HIKING SCHEDULE 1 - Leisurely pace or Nature walk A - Flat or very gently rolling terrain Mar/Apr 2018 2 - Moderate pace B - Moderate hilly terrain 3 - Brisk, steady pace C - Steep hills, scrambles possible 4 - Fast pace

Hiker’s Corner ➢ INSURANCE NOTE: Attention members: Foothills Trail Club carries liability insurance to ﬁnancially protect all of us in case a participant in a Foothills activity is injured. As a condition of our insurance coverage, every participant in an activity needs to sign the liability waiver before the activity begins. So please make sure you sign the form!

➢ Hike Leaders and Hikers: Before you commit to lead a club hike or plan a personal hike, check the trail conditions to ensure that the trail is open. This information can be found on the FLT website: www.ﬁngerlakestrail.org. Click on “TRAIL CONDITIONS” and select the map # for your intended hike. Map numbers that appear in ORANGE have trails closures for hunting. Trail conditions are outlined for all the other maps #’s.

➢ HIKER RESPONSIBILITY: We remind you that you, and only you, are responsible for your own actions. Come to our events prepared. Do not participate if the event may present a hazard for which you or your party members are not prepared. If weather is questionable or if you have questions, please call the named hike coordinator; the hike may be canceled. When participating, please respect the coordinator and do not break away from the group without telling them. We suggest you always keep your eye on someone in front of you, and behind you if you are in the lead. Please remember that hike leaders are not guides; they are volunteers, willing to share their knowledge and experience with you. Please give them your cooperation and respect. The leader has the right to refuse anyone who is not prepared for the outing. In addition, if the hike leader does arrange carpooling, passengers are expected to contribute toward the cost of transportation. Finally, since there are RISKS INVOLVED in hiking everyone participating does so at his or her own risk.

➢ REMEMBER TO RESPECT LANDOWNER RIGHTS: Stay on the trail, don’t take shortcuts, don’t walk on crops, don’t build ﬁres or camp on private land and NEVER, EVER enter landowner buildings.

➢ There are hikes scheduled for many days in March and April. Be sure to thank those members who have volunteered to lead these activities.

➢ HIKE COORDINATORS: If you need to cancel your hike or send additional information about your hike to Foothills members via the club’s Yahoo group, please call Kathy Foote (675-3989), Jeanne Moog (652-6190) or Roy Tocha (435-9674). They will send out a group email for you.

Bring lunch on all day hikes The weather may force cancellations or changes to an outing. If in doubt, check with the hike coordinator or watch for a Yahoo email. See the TALES for joining the Foothills Yahoo Group. Always check trail conditions before you hike at: www.ﬁngerlakestrail.org A good hiker leaves NO TRACES For further details visit www.foothillstrailclub.org FOOTHILLS TRAIL CLUB Hike Rating HIKING SCHEDULE 1 - Leisurely pace or Nature walk A - Flat or very gently rolling terrain Mar/Apr 2018 2 - Moderate pace B - Moderate hilly terrain 3 - Brisk, steady pace C - Steep hills, scrambles possible 4 - Fast pace

Saturday, Mar 3 9:30am 2B Conservation Trail, Map CT7 – Hike (5 mi) or Snowshoe (3 mi) MEET: at trailhead on Old Big Tree Road. If you are coming from Route 400: after passing through Wales Center, make a left turn onto East Blood Road and then a quick right turn onto Old Big Tree Road. Call DAVID WITTMANN 823-8156

Sunday, Mar 4 10am 4-5 mi 2B Genesee County Park & Forest – Hike or Snowshoe 11095 Bethany Center Road, East Bethany MEET: enter park from Bethany Center Road, then park in the large parking lot near the Interpretive Nature Center. The park consists of 431 acres of rolling hills with nature trails winding through a nice mix of habitat. We should ﬁnish up shortly after noon at which time the Nature Center opens. Pack a lunch. Call BOB ENSMINGER 434-2969

Wednesday, Mar 7 6:30pm 3 mi 2A Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve – Hike, Snowshoe or Cross Country Ski MEET: in the parking lot on Honorine Drive, oﬀ of Como Park Boulevard. Call GUS PHILLIPS 646-5034

Saturday, Mar 10 Work Party Watch for a Yahoo email with the details on where trail work is going to take place.

Sunday, Mar 11 – Hike or Snowshoe 9am 5 mi 2B Farm Tour and Letchworth State Park MEET: at Marquart Farms, 5195 Route 19, Gainesville, NY 14066. Take Route 78 south until it meets Route 19. Turn right onto Route 19 and Marquart will be 1/4 mile down the road. We will tour the potato farm, the trucking facility and the New York Chips enterprise. Afterwards, we will drive to the Humphrey Nature Center in Letchworth for a loop hike or snowshoe. Please bring a lunch to eat in the center after the hike. Call BROCK CARMICHAEL 585-322-3830 or CHERYL LEWIS 716-826-6020

Wednesday, Mar 14 6:30pm 3 mi 2A Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve – Hike, Snowshoe or Cross Country Ski MEET: in the parking lot on Honorine Drive, oﬀ of Como Park Boulevard. Call GUS PHILLIPS 646-5034

Saturday, Mar 17 10am 4 mi 2B Beaver Meadow Audubon Center MEET: in the parking lot at the road at 1610 Welch Road, North Java. It’s Beaver Meadow’s Maple Harvest Festival. Enjoy all-you-can-eat pancakes. Call BARB MACH 1-585-457-9892

Sunday, Mar 18 9am 4 mi 2C Conservation Trail – Carpenter to Humphries – Snowshoe or Hike MEET: on Carpenter (Map CT6 – Access 7). We will hike or snowshoe from Carpenter to Humphries and back to Carpenter. This will not be a fast hike/snowshoe and will involve some deep ravines. Call SALLY HARDENBURG 716-392-3019 or [email protected]

Wednesday, Mar 21 6:30pm 3 mi 2A Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve – Hike, Snowshoe or Cross Country Ski MEET: in the parking lot on Honorine Drive, oﬀ of Como Park Boulevard. Call GUS PHILLIPS 646-5034

Saturday, Mar 24 Work Party Watch for a Yahoo email with the details on where trail work is going to take place.

Sunday, Mar 25 10am 7 mi 2B Finger Lakes Trail (M5) MEET: on Peet Hill Road, Access 2. We will hike from Huyck Road back to Peet Hill Road. This is the ﬁrst of several hikes Nick will lead this year through Cattaraugus County eliminating as much road walk as possible. Call NICK SCARANO 585-365-5807 if you plan on attending. No calls, no hike!

Monday, Mar 26 6:30pm Foothills Trail Club Board Meeting The meeting is held at the Julia Reinstein Library on Losson Road (between Borden and Union Roads). Please consider joining us. We always enjoy having members in attendance. If you do attend, please don’t hesitate to ask questions and “speak up” about the topics being discussed. We are very interested in your input.

Wednesday, Mar 28 6:30pm 3 mi 2A Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve – Hike, Snowshoe or Cross Country Ski MEET: in the parking lot on Honorine Drive, oﬀ of Como Park Boulevard. Call GUS PHILLIPS 646-5034

Saturday, Mar 31 10:30am 6 mi 2B Conservation Trail (CT6) MEET: at the Holland Willows on Savage Road in Holland. We will hike to Becker’s Pond, have lunch and then hike back to our cars. Call KATHY FOOTE 675-3989

Sunday, Apr 1 - Easter

Tuesday, Apr 3 10am 3-4 mi 2B Chestnut Ridge Park Saunter MEET: in the parking lot by the big casino. Questions, call FRANK OCCHIUTO 651-9877

Saturday, Apr 7 10am 5-6 mi 2B Chestnut Ridge Park MEET: in the parking lot by the big casino. Call FRANK OCCHIUTO 651-9877 or 868-2119

Sunday, Apr 8 4-5 mi 2B Conservation Trial (M3/CT3) MEET: at Route 20A park and ride oﬀ Route 219 at 9am or at the end of Stone Chimney Road at about 10am. Lots of uphill climbs. Bring poles, lunch and water. We will go to the picnic area, have lunch and return to our cars. Call CLAUDIA LAWLER 572-8497

Tuesday, Apr 10 10am 4 mi 2B Williamsville Escarpment to Glen Park Saunter MEET: at Wegmans, Sheridan Drive and Essjay Road, near the bottle return area. Call GAYLE SYTY 691-6750

Saturday, Apr 14 9:30am 4 mi 2B Emery Park, South Wales - Hike MEET: at the ski lodge lower parking area. Take NY-400 to the end until it becomes NY-16. Continue on NY-16 for 0.4 miles and turn right on to Emery Road. Proceed 1.2 miles and turn right at the park entrance, then right again at the fork for the ski lodge. Emery Park oﬀers waterfalls, wooded trails and scenic ravines. Wear sturdy shoes, dress for the weather and bring a snack. Call JANET or DAVID KOWALKSI 839-3114 or [email protected]

Trail Steward Meeting (immediately after hike) MEET: at the Holland Community Center. Take Route 16 to the traﬃc light in Holland. Turn left onto Vermont Street, then left onto Canada Street and then left onto Legion Drive. Lunch will be provided.

Sunday, Apr 15 10am 9.5 mi 2B Finger Lakes Trail (M5) MEET: at Fancy Tract Road and Canada Hill Road. We will hike from Bear Creek Road to Fancy Tract Road. Call NICK SCARANO 585-365-5807 if you plan on attending. No calls, no hike!

Tuesday, Apr 17 10am 3 mi 2A Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve Saunter MEET: in the parking lot on Honorine Drive oﬀ of Como Park Boulevard. Call LORI HARF 601-7535

Saturday, Apr 21 9am 4 mi 2B Conservation Trail – Getman to Clinton - Hike MEET: in Getman parking lot (Map CT7 – Access 9). We will hike from Getman to Clinton and back. Call SALLY HARDENBURG 716-392-3019 or [email protected]

Sunday, Apr 22 1:30pm 3 mi 2B Akron Falls County Park MEET: at Cummings Lodge. Call JOE CHAYA 439-0062

Tuesday, Apr 24 10am 3 mi 2A Ellicott Creek Park Saunter MEET: in large parking area in park oﬀ of Niagara Falls Blvd. (across from Paul’s Jewelers). Call KATHY LAYNOR 548-8039

Saturday, Apr 28 10am 4 mi 2B Emery Park MEET: at top of ski hill on north side of park oﬀ Emery Road. Call BLAINE BOECKEL 604-4095

Sunday, Apr 29 9am 3.2 mi 2B Conservation Trail – Savage to Warner Gulf - Hike MEET: at the Holland Willows, 177 Savage Road, Holland, NY. We will hike from Savage to Warner Gulf and back. There a couple steep hills on this hike. We follow a snowmobile trail most of the way. Call SALLY HARDENBURG 716-392-3019 or [email protected]