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Winter Frolic Saturday February 13, 2010 a Short STC Business Meeting Will Follow the Dinner NNeewwsslleetttteerr “On Foot in Potter County…God’s Country” Susquehannock Trail Club PO Box 643 www.stc-hike.org Coudersport, PA 16915 Winter 2010 [email protected] The purposes of the STC are to build and maintain trails, aid in the conservation of wetlands and wildlife, and promote good fellowship through the medium of hiking and nature study. Winter Frolic Saturday February 13, 2010 A short STC business meeting will follow the dinner. Curt Weinhold will wrap up the evening with his Outdoor Photography Adventures. These photos were taken on his adventures in Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, California, and here in the PA Wilds. He will treat us to views from the peak of Mt. Whitney at 14,505 feet, to the depths of Badwater Basin at 282 feet below sea level in Death Valley. Dinner Reservations RSVP: Saturday February 5, 2010 STS Ridge Trail Price: $10.50 per person on Denton Hill Where: St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Parish Hall Photo by Curt Weinhold Allegany Ave Coudersport, PA The Susquehannock Trail Club’s annual Winter Frolic will When: 6:00 PM be held Saturday, February 13, 2010. It’s Valentine’s Day Menu: Stuffed Chicken Breast weekend! Bring your sweetheart and enjoy a weekend of Baked Ham winter romance in Northcentral PA. All the trimmings Guided events are still being planned. Stay tuned to our Dessert website for detailed information. Possible activities we’re thinking about include: cross country skiing, snowshoeing, winter hiking, or animal tracking. If you have other ideas, please include them on your reservation from. All activities are subject to reservations. In the evening, the club will gather together at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Parish Hall at 6:00 PM for a dinner catered by Bernie Lefever, Potter County’s own master chef! Oops! 1 Newsletter printed by the Welfare Hollow Publishing Group, New Florence, PA 15944 beaver dams were frozen over, but you could see air holes ALONG THE TRAIL and beaver tracks along the pond edges. To come up out of Splash Dam Hollow to the Sunken Branch Road and STC’s FIRST SNOWSHOE HIKE avoid the steep trail climb we used a set of old railroad By Wil Ahn switchbacks to climb to The year was 1970 and the road, then used some of the club mem- another set of old railroad bers wanted to take ad- switchbacks to maneuver vantage of a very snowy our way through the head- winter and do some water springs of the snowshoeing. The STC branch. Today those had its infancy in l967 and switchbacks on the West we had a few organized Branch side of the hikes in fair weather on mountain after you cross sections of the STS. With the Captain Shelton 2 feet of snow around in pipeline are part of the January some of us de- Bureau of Forestry cided to take a snowshoe maintained snowmobile hike from Route 6 at and/or ATV Trail. Denton Hill over the Photo by Tom Fitzgerald Needless to say, it was a Ridge Trail, White Line tough snowshoe hike climbing up the Plantation Trail to Trail, Splash Dam Trail to Patterson State Park and Route 44. A few years later, after Photo by Bob Knowles the Sunken Branch Road I took up Cross Country skiing, I made that same trip with and then into the headwaters of the West Branch of Pine other STC members; the Kerrs, Magars, Paul Kurtz, Peg Cr. and up the Plantation Trail to Patterson State Forest Scott, and Rose Schaub. This time around was not nearly Picnic Area on Rt. 44, a distance of about 8 miles. as rough as the snowshoe hike. That snowshoe hike was I suppose we wanted the public to know we were an all- an experience I will always remember; as I am sure the year club regardless of weather conditions. The partici- other snowshoers will too. pants were Bob Knowles, Bob “Butch” Davey, John Miller, Tom Fitzgerald, Don Klahr, and Wil Ahn. It was a very cold day when we started out but by the time we hit the White Line Trail we were sweating. In those days Woolrich Clothing was popular with many hunters. We didn’t have the lightweight but warm clothing sold today for skiers and hikers from L.L. Bean, REI, and Cabela’s. End of hike: Still standing—but barely Photo by Wil Ahn Beginning of hike: Our group used a variety of snowshoe styles – Bearpaws, Rested, Frisky, and rarin’ to go Maine, Michigan, and the long Ojibway, Alaskan, or Photo by Wil Ahn Pickerel type with rawhide webbing and wooden frames. Going down the narrow White Line Trail with snowshoes Today most recreational snowshoers use the lightweight was a challenge but there was an old tote road paralleling aluminum frame models, much lighter, shorter and easier the trail that made it easier. In Splash Dam Hollow the to maneuver. 2 Newsletter printed by the Welfare Hollow Publishing Group, New Florence, PA 15944 HARVEST DINNER James C. Finley, Ph.D. By Wil Ahn & Tom Fitzgerald The annual Wild Game/Harvest Dinner was held on October 10, 2009 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Parish Hall in Coudersport, PA. Every year, STC members are encouraged to bring dishes to this dinner from wild game they have killed themselves or wild plants they have picked and prepared themselves. Foods from home gardens are also acceptable, as are store-bought foods as a last resort. This year the main-course delicacies were pheasant & grouse meat pie, Tyrolean Alps venison, scalloped potatoes, artichokes fresh and pickled, cucumber in vinegar and sugar, cabbage slaw, baked ham, potato salad, carrot & raisin salad, mushroom pie, baked beans, tomato pie, fresh tomatoes, rainbow trout chowder, fiddlehead Photo By Tom Fitzgerald ferns, and scalloped oysters. of those trees to the present time. A fast-growing, short- Desserts included grasshopper bars, apple pie, German lived aspen had risen up, broken off, and died. Medium- apple cake, raisin pie, blackberry cobbler, bread pudding, lived black cherries were steadily getting bigger and taking and more. over the site, while long-lived sugar maples were slowly Forty-one members marking time as they waited their turn after the cherries and guests attended. were gone. After the dinner, Accompanying Dr. Finley was his lovely and gracious wife, door prizes were Linda, who had just completed her second term as the awarded, followed by a short business Linda L. Finley meeting followed. The highlight of the meeting was the presentation of the new Wil & Betty Ahn Trail sign in recog- nition of their many years of service to Photo By Tom Fitzgerald the STC. Once again, special thanks to Nancy Klahr, daughter Becky Monger, and granddaughter, Sarah Monger, for kitchen preparation and clean-up. The featured program was a special appearance by James Photo By Tom Fitzgerald C. Finley, Ph.D., Professor of Forest Resources at president of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, the Pennsylvania State University College of Agriculture nation’s oldest public forestry organization in the United School of Forest Resources. Dr. Finley presented a States. Mrs. Finley described the mission of PFA and PowerPoint program which discussed the effect that man’s invited interested STC members to join that organization activity has had on the forests of Pennsylvania from the At the end, Dr. Finley explained the Forest Stewardship days of pioneer European settlement, through the big Program in Pennsylvania, with special emphasis on the lumbering era at the end of the Nineteenth Century, to the annual training for selected forest landowners in the basics present. Of special interest was a series of photographs of caring for their private forest land. Bill Boyd expressed taken periodically at a permanent camera point on the interest in taking the 40-hour training course when it is Allegheny National Forest over a period of eight decades. offered next year. He was subsequently nominated as a The series showed the response of the same several trees prospective trainee by retired service forester Tom to a clearcut harvest that had occurred in the mid 1920’s Fitzgerald, who is also an STC member. shortly before the first photo in the series, and the growth 3 Newsletter printed by the Welfare Hollow Publishing Group, New Florence, PA 15944 this perspective. With the leaves off and snow on the A DAY HIKE ground, I could just make out this trail as it winds its way By Chris Bell north. Lots of hikes have come and gone, and I just have not had Mid State Trail – Natural Area the urge to bother you all with the details. So I thought I would provide a bit of verbiage about my last outing. Hiking this time of year is not as bad as one might think. As long as you are moving, you might actually stay warm! On December 22, 2009, I took my wife’s car to the dealer in Mansfield PA for a recall issue and a new remote starter. Now she can get into a warm car. That yields at least a hug and kiss for me for year 2009. Yahooooo! While the repairs were underway, I got a free loaner car and drove it 40 minutes to Blackwell, PA. You might find it on the map. Blackwell is at the southern end of the so-called PA Grand Canyon. The Mid-State Trail, which runs from Maryland to New York, crosses through this li’l hamlet on its way north. Photo by Chris Bell On the way over it was really snowing hard. I hoped that Getting back down to Blackwell was fun but as I say, using at least once the weatherman would be right.
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