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From the Chair Saxon Woods Has Miniature Golf, Swimming, Hiking, ------Playgrounds, Etc SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 2017 N e w s l e tter of the Mohican Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club Serving Westchester, Putnam, and Fairfield Counties ...and Beyond Saturday, September 16, 2017 at Noon EXPLORE STATE! The state park system has wonderful Annual Picnic—FDR Park places to explore. Many offer swimming. North-South Lake in the Catskills offers moderate and strenuous hikes The annual Mohican picnic around the area, camping, and swimming in two lakes. will again be held this year at Aside from eating at Bear Mountain Inn, you can climb the Franklin D. Roosevelt State 1000 steps provided to Perkins Tower. They have a Park in Yorktown. It is easy to get to as it is right off the merry-go-round, a zoo, ice-skating (seasonal), as well as Taconic. Sign up by sending $10 payable to ADK many trails, swimming pool (seasonal), etc. Theater and Mohican to Julie DiRaimondo, 3 Old Kings Highway, concerts can be enjoyed at Jones Beach State Park. Old Greenwich, CT 06870 (203-536-2484). Please James Baird State Park is a golfing area in Pleasant indicate which of the following you will bring: appetizer, Valley with several trails. side dish, salad or dessert so the menu can be balanced. Please include your telephone number. Fee EXPLORE COUNTY! The county parks are another jewel. Playland has the amusement rides, beach, pool, covers cost of main course and beverages. boardwalk, fireworks, food, etc. It also is the neighbor to the Edith Read Sanctuary that has a bamboo forest. From the Chair Saxon Woods has miniature golf, swimming, hiking, --------------------------------------------------------- playgrounds, etc. Kensico Dam has walking paths up and FUTURE STUFF-------SOMETHING FOR over the dam and has many festivals throughout the year. EVERYONE! Pound Ridge has many trails and picnic areas. Teatown PICNIC (SEPTEMBER) in Ossining has many trails and a nature center. Lasdon HOLIDAY PARTY (DECEMBER) Park in Katonah includes a Historical Tree trail, a Veterans’ War Memorial trail, a Conservatory, a Chinese ELECTIONS (SPRING)—Inviting New Hike Garden, and music festivals in the summer. Muscoot Leaders and New Officers to Help us Grow! Farm has a wonderful trail system through the woods and Westchester and our surrounding counties are a back to the farm in Katonah. Mountain Lakes Camp in playground for all nature lovers and sports enthusiasts. North Salem has well marked trails through campsites We are surrounded by the beauty of a nearby ocean, the which lead to the highest point in Westchester County on sound, rivers, farms, trails (wooded or paved), strenuous Bailey Mountain at 982 feet. Glen Island Park in New hills, cliffs, and are close enough to upstate mountains to Rochelle, Croton Point Park in Croton, Blue Mountain enjoy on weekends and vacations. Yet do we know what Reservation in Peekskill, and many more, etc., offer so is available to us? The splendor of our state park system much. and county and local park systems is available to all of us. The Empire Passport card relieves you of the parking EXPLORE CITIES! The cities also offer spots to enjoy fees at the state parks. The County Park Pass reduces like Untermyer Park that is a scenic floral park in the City the parking fees. of Yonkers, and Hudson Park is a gorgeous sound shore park in New Rochelle. The Marshlands in Rye is a I hope you all enjoyed the heat with some water activities. shoreline jewel. Central Park is the gem of NYC. So new My hot weather hikes included swimming at some of leaders come and help us explore what is in your these state parks like the beautiful sandy beach at Lake neighborhood. Each place has its own special value with Taghkanic (Columbia County) with a five-mile loop around similar or different amenities. This is only the short list! the lake. Swimming in Canopus Lake after my But don’t forget Franklin Roosevelt State Park where our Fahnestock (Putnam County) hike on the ski trails was picnic is going to be. wonderful. My Minnewaska (Ulster County) hike also included swimming or sticking your feet in at Lake Look forward to the autumn cooling down and the Awosting and is a welcome cooling place halfway through glorious colors of the leaves until the white dust sprinkles the hike. down on us. Jean Dolen 1 SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 2017 NOTICE OF WINTER TRIP If you have questions, call Lisa Weismiller at Adirondack Loj Trip 203-246-8200 or email at [email protected]. Friday-Monday, January 12-15, 2018 DEADLINE – NOVEMBER 17, 2017 Name: ___________________________________ Join us for a fun-filled Address: __________________________________ winter weekend in the _________________________________________ heart of the high peaks region of the Adirondack Email: ____________________________________ Mountains. The ADK Loj Phone: ___________________________________ will be our base where you can enjoy hiking, Private Rooms snowshoeing, #5 - two twin beds backcountry or cross-country skiing, or just relax by the #6 - two twin beds fire in the rustic gathering room. A short drive will take #8 - King size bed you to Lake Placid for ice skating, dog sledding or Deposit of $118.50/person for the weekend tobogganing. You can tour the Olympic Center or #3 - 4-person bunkroom Olympic Ski Jump, take an exhilarating ride on a Deposit of $94.50/person for the weekend bobsled or skeleton, or cross-country ski at the nearby Mt. Van Hoevenberg center. For the downhill skiers Loft (coed bunkroom) – 2 spaces among us, Whiteface Mountain is only a short distance Deposit of $81/person for the weekend away. Accommodation # of people Rate/night Bunkroom #3 4 $ 63/person Private Room #5 (twin beds) 2 $158.10/night Private Room #6 (twin beds) 2 $158.10/night Private Room #8 (king bed) 2 $158.10/night Loft 2 $ 54/person Your 3% bed tax, dinners and trail lunches will be added at the time of check out. With a new reservation policy in place at the Loj, your deposit will be 50% of the room cost with the balance to be paid by you at checkout time. The room cost includes 3 breakfasts, but NO dinners. Dinner is $19.50 and reservations can be made upon arrival. PLEASE NOTE: Reservations must be received by 11 a.m. so if you are planning on having dinner Friday night upon arrival, YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN RESERVATIONS. Trail lunches are also available for $9.50. The private and family rooms tend to fill up quickly so send in your reservation as soon as you can, but no later than November 17. If Lisa Weismiller, Janice Miller and Jane Restani spent your choice is no longer available, I will call you to the last week in June in the Adirondacks bagging discuss alternatives. Cancellations received on or after peaks. The weather was variable but the real issue November 17 will lose the deposit unless we can fill the was the previous rain that left the trails very muddy. spot from a waiting list. There was plenty of rock hopping on the way to Mt. Marshall. Colvin and Blake were far out but nice even Please complete the form below and mail with your at 15 miles and Giant and Rocky Peak were very room preference and check made payable to slippery, but the views were outstanding. We ADK Mohican Chapter NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER regrouped at Janice's lakeside cabin. All and all a great 17, 2017 to: Lisa Weismiller, 118 Grove Street #11, week. Submitted by Jane Restani Stamford, CT 06901 2 SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 2017 I spent a week in the AMC August Camp on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge hiking, rafting the Deschutes River and enjoying the sites. Since Pat Johnston resides in Oregon, we met up to do some hiking together. Our choice was the 8-mile round-trip hike up Cooper Spur on 11,250 foot Mt. Hood through some old growth forest but mostly exposed. This is the highest point on the mountain that can be reached by trail—8,500 feet. Going any further and it becomes a mountaineering route. Lisa Weismiller and Pat Johnston on Cooper Spur ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Appalachian Trail Conservancy will be creating a Tribute Garden at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in the fall of 2017. This Garden is intended to be a permanent It was 60O at the trailhead and 94O public memorial honoring those who have walked on, in town upon our return. We got an early start to beat helped protect or been inspired by the Appalachian the heat and crowds. Soon the trail began a series of Trail. The information can be found on broad switchbacks on the increasingly steep shoulder http://www.appalachiantrail.org/TributeGarden. There of the spur, passing stunning viewpoints of the are many ways to donate, and our club will be donating awesome north face of Mount Hood and the rugged money to have a brick engraved in memory of icefalls of the Eliot Glacier. We were up close and Margaret Freifeld to read as follows: personal with that mighty mountain! We had views of Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Adams. Margaret Freifeld There was an amazing phenomenon that we 1943 - 2015 encountered on the Spur that occurs some summers in Ultimate Flipflopper the Pacific Northwest. Apparently, thousands of Finished Trail 2009 California tortoiseshell butterflies were migrating to In Loving Memory grounds above tree line where they supposedly hang From the ADK Mohicans out until September when they scatter downslope to hibernate in the foothills. It was the most amazing site—we were surrounded by butterflies—it truly was a magical day! Submitted by Lisa Weismiller 3 SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 2017 Saturday, June 24 Harriman Circuit Hike #9 June 24 turned out to be a good day for a circuit hike in Harriman.
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