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LONGISLANDMOUNTAINEER Newsletter of The LONG ISLAND MOUNTAINEER Newsletter Of The Adirondack Mountain Club, Long Island Chapter JULI - AUGUST 193a &teiident'& 9*en Al Scholl Nth Annual Fall Loi Trip j As you may know, LI-ADK does not Beautiful autumn colors. Breathy f have a formal August meeting. This taking views of the surrounding /vf year Ed and Michelle Slaughter have mountains and valleys. Who knows, *. graciously offered their home for maybe the first snow of the winter i our informal gathering and barbecue season? Where? In the Adirondack©,,. I on Saturday August 6. of courseI The Slaughters live in Patchogue, It's the 11th annual Columbus iBtf, near ferry service to Fire Island. Weekend Trip to the Adirondacks, . "1 One can spend the day at the beach October 7-1Q. Activities include a before the afternoon barbecue. There diversified hike schedule, social are two bike trips and one hike activties, a wine and nosh party, scheduled on eastern Long Island and evening programs. Stay in the that day. Or just show up at the Loj (bunkrooms and private rooms), afternoon festivities. It is a good tents or lean-tos, or plan your own way to meft your fellow LI-ADKers backpacking excursion in the High and get to know them. Peaks. Fall foliage will enhance the Ed and Michelle have hosted this spectacular mountain views. barbecue in the past. It has always Accommodations are expected to ^ been alot of fun with great food and fill up early, so please make reser­ friends. So please sign up (see page vations as soon as possible. An 2) and attend. The price is $6.50 for application form is included in this adults and $2.50 for children under Mountaineer (see page 9). Please read 12. All food and beverages (soda and it carefully and submit one for each juice) is included. If you prefer a person going. Registration deadline stronger beverage, it's BYOB. is September 6. So check the Outings Schedule for For more information,, call Joan the time of the outings and be at the Gossner at 516-689-3070. Slaughters at k PK for the BBQ. If you need directions to Ed and Michelle's, call them at 516-65W197. BB-Q An update on Camp 0'Brian: the Governor's Report June Fait committee has $13,600 cash on hand and thus will not begin building this The majority of tne action at the spring as planned. Will give further April 16 BoG meeting centered around developments after the June meeting. conservation issues. The first item Late in the day,, one of the Board was a discussion of the Hudson River members raised the question of the Shoreline Trail. This would run from Club's financial priorities. How the Battery in N.Y.C. to an undeter­ important is a new headquarters mined spot in the Adirondacks, pres­ building? Should we have a new Edu­ umably near the source of the Hudson cation Center? Should the Club have River. After discussion, the BoG rebuilt Grace Camp? Let me know your noted its approval for the concept concerns so I can present them to of this trail. At present time it's the Board. You are the club and your still on the drawing board but some­ voice should be countedi day we may be able to walk from NYC to the Adirondacksl The Board also noted to urge the State to designate the Eemsen to Lake Placid railbed as public land WILDLANDS CAMPAIGN RESULTS G00D1 and plan for its use for recreation. Our Treasurer, Tom Wall, reports Many of the old railbeds around the that at the conclusion of the camp­ country would make ideal trails for aign on May 31, 1988, donations CX skiing or bicycling and it would • totaling 8263*00 were recieved from be nice if this route could be used LI-ADK members in response to the for recreation also. appeal in the May - June Mountaineer. Our chapter, along with five This amount was matched from the other chapters, requested support for Chapter treasury for a total contrib­ the aquisition of land in Sterling ution of $326.00 to the ADK Wild- Forest. This is an area of 30 square lands Fund. miles, 50 miles north of N.Y.C, which although privately owned, has Twenty-one members donated amounts been used for public recreation for ranging from $2.00 to $35.00, or an many years. It is the past large average of $12.50 per gift. tract of land that can be developed Your support of this campaign is and its loss would deprive us of appreciated and is a positive land used for hiking, hunting, and indication that LI-ADK cares for fishing as well as adversely affect our wildlandsi the areas watershed supply. The BoG will discuss this at our next meet­ ing in June. ANNUAL SUMMER MEETING & BARBECUE COUPON . Send to Ed & Michelle Slaughter, 196 Cedar Ave.,Patchogue, NY 11772 by July 23. Cancellations: MUST be recived by Ed BEFORE July Z^ AND be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. I have enclosed a check, made payable to "Ed Slaughter", to reserve a place at the August 6th barbecue. NAME 12 years & over @ ^6.50 STREET. under 12 years @ $2.50 TOWN people(TOTAL)check end Please check your drink preference: _soda .diet soda juice MODERN HAZARD TO HIKERS FINAL CLUE- FOR PLAQUE HUNT! Submitted by George Elias George Form buried, in the This time of year gardeners are Catskill Mountains, a map which if out rototi.lling the soil in anti­ followed correctly will lead to the cipation ,of planting once the missing LI-ADK Plaque. The finder threat of hard frost is over. of the plaque will win a $30 gift Problem is that some of these certificate or a one year free rototillejd plots, at least one so membership. far anyway,"are turning up in the All previous clues were given in backwoods! anc* bywaters of Schoharie the last Mountaineer. What follows County, hidden by trees & brush. is the final clue. No further clues "Strangest thing," said Sgt. will be given. John Anderson of the Warnerville The map is located on the summit Station of the State Police."I was of the mountain which is missing out turkey hunting far from the road from this list: Blackhead, Cornell, and there was this nicely tilled Peekamoose, Slide, Sugarloaf, Table, patch...not a single footprint." Twin, Windham High Peak, and Anderson believes the "garden­ Wittenberg. er" was not planting a chef salad Find the plaque and bring it to but rather1 would plant some marijuana the next club meeting. plants later in the month. He also knows, from experience, that back­ woods marijuana patches are not unheard of.! "Growing 'marijuana is illegal and Wit A PAanA* the grower will be arrested," said Our membership chairman, Paul Anderson. To discourage the practice Lanzillotta, wishes to thank Diane he suggests!that hunters, fishermen, Wein and Joanne DelPrete for their "and hikers who amble onto a tilled assistance with the recent member­ area pass the location to state ship mailings. Paul says "at least police for^further checking. Call I wasn't the only one to O.D. on 518-234-3131 with information. envelope and stamp glue!" Outdoor Alert, a pamphlet put out by the Department of Fish and Game, is designed to educate sport- men who venture into remote areas Editor's Desk Linda Edwards about the possible dangers of wan­ dering into someone's marijuana If anyone has any questions about patch. If you do, the pamphlet ad­ the ADK (membership, etc), an address vises, stop and say loudly, "I change, or any problems recieving didn't mean to do this and I'm leav­ the Mountaineer or any other club ing right nowjl" Then walk, don't run, publications, please write to the and watch carefully for explosive address listed in the back page. devices, trapj guns, bear traps, dead­ PLEASE don't refer people to me, as falls, and snares and fishhooks I don't handle the roster list (this strung on fishing line at eye comes to us from main club) or have level across trails. any mailings for prospective members. I'd really appreciate it'. Thanks for helping. Please take note that the dead­ line for the September-October issue will be July 28. Please have every­ thing in by then, as I will be on vacation in Colorado and Arizona for most of August, and I want to finish the next issue before I go. Thanksi c^^d^ PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES .Arlene Scholer * STATE BIRD ENTHUSIASTS - In New York State there are 2,000 members of the * ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS - In the world of North American Bluebird Society who art, JIM PELZER'S presentation of maintain 300 bluebird trails. If you the Hudson River artists at the have property away from the metro­ April meeting was phenomenal. The politan area, perhaps you'd consider selection of slides, the depth of sending for information. Once you the information, and Jim's per­ respond, you'll be sent nesting boxes sonal interest in the subject pro­ and a book of instruction for a nom­ duced a program of the highest inal cost. For the basic information, quality. The audience showed its write to the North American Bluebird appreciation by remaining 30 min­ Society, P0 Box 6295, Silver Springs, utes beyond the normal time allotted Maryland 20906-0295. Enclose 50* and for the program. Come back again, a legal sized envelope, SASE. An Jim. Danke schfln for everything. article on bluebirds also described Many years ago our chapter had a the ideal site: an open piece of land contest for the newsletter's banner.
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