FREE! COVERING OCTOBER UPSTATE NY 2016 SINCE 2000 Storm the Stockade! ■ SCENES FROM THE 2015 STOCKADE-ATHON. PAT HENDRICK PHOTOGRAPHY CONTENTS 1 Running Stockade-athon 15K Storm the Stockade! By Mona Caron Pond. The last 3K is mostly flat or downhill, as runners exit 3 Hiking & Backpacking Central Park to go through historic Vale Cemetery and Vale Park, Great Autumn Hikes he MVP Health Care Stockade-athon 15K, taking place on before a final downhill to the finish at City Hall. It’s a beautiful Sunday, November 13th, is a fall classic race that mixes and scenic tour of the city! 5 News Briefs T long-held traditions with some added changes over the Preregistration is already over 600 people at press time, on 5 From the Publisher & Editor years. Now in its 41st year, one thing remains the same, it is the pace for an expected 1,800 total registrants, according to race year’s final distance race. Known as the oldest major 15K road director Vince Juliano. For the first 1,700 registrants, Adidas CALENDAR OF EVENTS 6-9 race in the USA, this 9.3-miler is a premier event in the region. performance gender-specific race singlets will be given to October to December Events For some it’s the last competitive race we’ll do until spring or the runners for the first time. Registration remains open until 11 Bicycling before moving onto snowshoeing or skiing. For many, we’re last chance registration at the Schenectady YMCA on Friday, looking to PR after months of training and racing. If you haven’t November 11. There is no race registration for 15K runners on The Adirondack Trail Ride run the Stockade-athon in a while or ever, give it a shot! race weekend so get signed up soon. Early packet pickup is on 13 Athlete Profile The Stockade-athon loop course of Schenectady’s histor- Saturday, November 12 at Fleet Feet Sports in Albany. Race day ic neighborhoods and parks will be the same as the previous packet pickup and baggage check will be at the Schenectady Triathlete Kris Johnson two years. Due to a new roundabout constructed at the Erie YMCA. MVP clear bags will be available at packet pickup for 15 Running & Walking Boulevard crossing near the 1.5-mile mark, the course will be those who wish to check a bag. Turkeys Put Giving Back recertified with adjustment of nearly 40 feet. On Saturday at Fleet Feet, runners are encouraged to bring Starting near Veterans Park in downtown Schenectady, non-perishable food items or to make a cash donation for their in Thanks runners travel State Street for 1K before entering the histor- annual Concerned for the Hungry Food Drive for Thanksgiving. 17 Paddling ic Stockade District, and proceeding on a scenic bike path in On race day at Schenectady YMCA, runners can also drop off Riverside Park along the Mohawk River. 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There are many of Warrensburg, turning onto Hickory Hill fall favorites but here are some classics, with Road to the ski center (N43 28.616 W73 a few you may not have yet discovered. 49.124). Berlin Mountain is in the Capital Moxham Mountain has a fairly new Region’s backyard, the highest point in trail and is now on many ‘favorites’ lists. Rensselaer County. The trail has a few steep- Enjoy the changing leaves along the well er sections but at 5.25 miles roundtrip and laid-out trail to the bare, rocky summit. The 1,300-foot ascent, it offers an easily-enjoy- views from Moxham are spectacular and VIEW OF THREE SISTERS FROM able nearby hike. The summit is bare and offer vistas of the High Peaks in the middle PINE MOUNTAIN. ALAN VIA often windy and features a nice view of distance. It’s five miles roundtrip with just Mount Greylock and surrounding peaks and under 1,400-foot ascent. hills. The long drive up to Petersburg Pass is Getting There: Turn off of NY Route 28N a leaf-peeper’s delight. onto County Route 37 just east of Minerva. Getting There: Follow NY Route 2 through Follow County Route 37 until it becomes Rensselaer County past Petersburg, climb- 14th Road and follow to the trailhead (N43 ing the long hill to Petersburg Pass, and the 46.217 W74 00.721). large trailhead. (N42 43.399 W73 16.675) Owl’s Head Lookout – not the one Huckleberry Point is a great foliage near Cascade Mountain – is the bare, rocky hike and shares its trailhead (N42 07.989 W74 knob, 2.3 miles along on the north trail to 04.951) with Kaaterskill High Peak. Begin on Giant Mountain. There is a short, steep spur the woods road and then turn RIGHT, fol- trail to one of the most spectacular knobs lowing the trail sign where it branches off the in the Adirondacks. This big payoff on this KHP trail to the spectacular ledge. Look for small gem is the spectacular view of the rock WATER AND WOODS FROM SUMMIT a small herd path on the left, just before the slides on the back side of Giant Mountain. Be OF MOXHAM MOUNTAIN. ALAN VIA point. It leads to a dwarf pitch pine forest. 4.5 sure to go early in foliage season to catch the miles and 1,175-foot ascent. yellow leaves on the white birches along the Getting There: The drive from West trail. It is five miles roundtrip and a 1,250- Saugerties up the spectacular Platte Clove foot ascent. Road is not to be missed, but go before the Getting There: Turn east onto NY Route town closes it Nov. 1st for winter. Otherwise, 9N from Elizabethtown, turning into the follow County Route 16 from Tannersville to trailhead (N44 12.772 W73 40.755) this hike shares with the north trail to Giant Mountain. the trailhead. Belleayre Mountain offers more than Rochester Hollow might be one of the skiing along the summit access ski trail/ finest, non-summit hikes in the group.