LONG ISLAND MOUNTAINEER ^s_. NEWSLETTER OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB, LONG ISLAND CHAPTER MAY/JUNE 1989 PRESIDENT'S PEN Al Scholl GOVERNORS REPORT June Fait I would like to take this opportunity to First of all, Herb & I want to thank Paul take care of some loose ends and acknowledge Lanzillotta for being our proxy at the last some LI-ADKers. BoG meeting. Neither of us were able to be I would like to thank Lanny Wexler for there so Paul offered to go in our place. taking over the Outings Chair. Lanny has Thanks Paul, for being there when we needed hiked in many areas that LI ADK visits you. regularly. I hope everyone helps to make Paul was able to present the club with our Lanny's job easy. Good luck Lanny. check for $550 for the rehabilitation of the Speaking of Outings, I would like to Brothers Trail. We have been maintaining thank Paul Lanzillotta for coordinating this trail for over 20 years and at present Outings. I would like to thank Herb Coles it needs some heavy duty maintenance as well for coordinating the Moderate hikes. Thanks as our annual trail clearing. It is hoped for your help, Paul and Herb. If anyone is that the DEC will match these funds so the still interested in coordinating the Moderate work can proceed. This work will be done by hikes, please call me at 541-8163. a paid trail crew but we still need As you know by now, Larry Braun is volunteers for our trail clearing in May. spearheading a Camp O'Brien fund drive. I The Albany Chapter presented the club with hope everyone contributed. Larry's efforts, $11,000 in gifts and pledges for Camp Peggy along with our $550 donation to the Trails O'Brien. As you know we are also in the Committee, will make our presence stronger middle of a drive to raise money for the new in the Adirondacks. Camp. This issue of the Adirondac features The current schedule has our annual Trail a story on Camp Peggy O'Brien in which both Maintenance and Litter Day Trips. These our chapters are mentioned. After a lot of trips go to Harriman, Schunemunk Mountain and hard work, a dream is becoming a reality. The Brothers Trail in the Adirondacks. More work still needs to be done, both fund Please lend your support for these trips. raising and construction. And volunteers are If anyone plans to move, please drop a always needed. line to ADK-LI, P0 Box 172, Yaphank, NY The closing on our new headquarters was 11980. Your change of address will be uneventful and staff is scheduled to move in forwarded to the Main Club. This will help April 1. The HQ Committee is now a standing prevent any interruption or delays of any committee and will function as the LOJ & JBL mailings, including the Long Island Committees do for their respective buildings. Mountaineer. We now have a lot more responsibility but now If anyone has any problems or questions, we have more flexibility and room for growth. please give me a call and we can discuss. ' • "—' •- +0 page 2) have sent in $1,921. Your donations together GOVERNORS REPORT with the one-for-one matching funds -continued from page 1 "appropriated by LI-ADK's Board of Directors Bob Linck, our first Conservation will help replace Winter Camp. Director, resigned. The Adirondac mentions If you have not yet made a contribution, that Neil Woodworth, our Conservation Chair, your $20 or $50 will work like $40 or $100 will fill that job. Neil will be available when you send your check payable to: LI-ADK to speak to the chapters on conservation Camp O'Brien Fund, to Larry Braun, 79 Locust issues. Good luck to Neil in his new job. St., Floral Park, NY 11001. The next BoG meeting is June 3 at the LOJ. Both Herb and I plan to attend. Volunteer Opportunities...All meals, tools and lodging art? on ADK. You bring old clothes, gloves, bug dope and a willing spirit. GETTING OUT Larry Braun May 6-7, 13-14, 20-21 Many people will be needed to dig foundation holes and set Mountaineers often attempt, but almost posts. always fail, to satisfactorily explain the June 3- 4, 9-10, 16-17 Floor framing and attraction mountains have for them. decking will be done. A friend shared a poem with me recently that uncovered, and clarified for me, at At least 4 days before the weekend(s) you least, some latent feelings I'd been chose contact Rob Bond at (518) 523-3441. harboring. Also send written notification to Rob at PO I want to share the poem with you, hoping Box 867, Lake Placid, NY 12946 to ensure it may illustrate yet another reason ample groceries for you. mountaineers climb. THE STONES DON'T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT Tell the other side of it, how longing galloped beside terror in your chest For those traveling to the Adirondacks this when trees stopped and fog reached between the mountains year, a reminder that the Main Club has and hid the painted stripes that marked the path. available a number of maps and guides to help It started to get dark and cold and nothing plan your trip. Check the April issue of you could see would burn to warm a night, Adirondac for a complete listing of their and inside, next to fear, over the borders publications. you'd drawn for safety, leaped a wild wish -- to stay where there was no sign of the human, forget your bootprints in a gash of snow, leave the red trail blazes and the cairns ONE OF A KIND pointing to the cramped shelter below For Sale: Nishiki 12-speed mens bicycle w/21" for forms you couldn't make resemble faces: frame. Very good condition. Paul endless streambeds paved with shifting scree, clouds of insects, gentians pushed through fissures, Lanzillotta (746-3932) evenings 8-10. butterflies, rills broken over stones, For Sale: DP 1000 rowing machine. Excellent the stones themselves. How could they be persuaded condition. Can no longer use because of to accept you as an integer, like them: taught the measurement of time in eras, cartilage problem in knee. Asking only $60 infinite, no longer lost or small? (original price $160). Arlene Scholer (354- 0231). Language was as useless as your eyes until the fog blew higher and withdrew, and the ancient pools left by the glaciers For Free: Bicycle Wind Trainer. Received looked like postcards again as you climbed down. from Joan Gossner with the understanding that -Suzanne Gardinier LB pass it on to someone else if no longer (The New Yorker, 13 Feb 89) needed. (Larry has a new one now.) Same conditions apply to next trustee. If your Camp Peggy O'Brien Fund Raising Wildly word is your bond, contact Larry Braun (354- Successful...Thanks to the 79 members who 8507). 2 ' outing that took her over Balsam Cap and PEOPLE AND PERSPECTIVES -Ariene schoier Rocky. When beginner snowshoe hikes are offered next year, plan to challenge yourself IMPRESSIONS FROM ANOTHER TIME ZONE...WALTER with a winter outing regardless of the snow CARSTONS and EDITH MITCHELL will qualify as conditions. "See America First" tour guides by the time they return home to Tupper Lake in early May. Whooping cranes, redwoods, friends, and the fantastic scenery of the American Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast have made their two and half month adventure a memorable one...HELEN and GEORGE ELIAS, my roof antenna has not picked up signals from you in your mobile home. Are you wandering or staying put??? THE WINNING NUMBERS ARE 647, 658, AND 195W... They're not lottery numbers but 3500 Club numbers for RICH EHLI, MARION DICKEY, and BILL CRUMP (for winter credit) who completed the 38 Catskill climbs. CARRIE EHLI, GEORGE FORM, and myself attended the annual dinner with Marion and Rich to applaud their efforts. By 1990 the climbs will number 39 to include SW Hunter which has been added to the new tally sheets. The dinner next year will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the WILL SNOW BE A MEMORY?...Will you be telling 3500 Club as well as the accomplishments of your grandchildren that you can remember more hikers such as JOELLEN ELSENER, LANNY winters when it snowed? To handle the ice WEXLER, and ROGER CHUNG who are close to that was so prevalent this year, full gaining winter and general membership status. crampons were a worthwhile investment. Plan ahead and set aside the last Saturday in Hiking without them was impossible; hiking March, 1990 to join the LI caravan. West with instep crampons was an improvement but Point is a possible location for next year's you could be more relaxed about the ice annual dinner meeting. underfoot with full crampons. If you celebrate a birthday between now and next INDEPENDENTLY EMPLOYED...JUNE FAIT has winter, perhaps you could enlist family and retired from being an employee and is friends to outfit you with a pair of starting a new career as a massage therapist. crampons. A catalog, Climb High, features 8- June has been studying for several years to point crampons that are suitable for become certified. Congratulations, June, and flexible-soled boots. Crampons with 10 and may the road of self-employment be a smooth 12 points are sold for a rigid boot. If you one. would like a copy of the crampon page in Climb High, please send me a SASE: 17 Willow CHALLENGE YOURSELF...In a normal winter, I Rd., New Hyde Park, NY 11040.