July-sepTeMber 2010 No. 1004 chepontuc — “Hard place to cross,” Iroquois reference to Glens Falls hepontuc ootnotes C T h e N e w s l e tt e r o f T h e G l e N s f a l l s - s aF r a T o G a C h a p T e r o f T h e a d i r o N d a C k M o u nt a i N C l u b Annual Dinner set for Oct. 21 The Legend Returns: Ranger Emeritus Peter Fish eter Fish is an iconic and retired High Peaks Wilderness Area Forest Ranger, having served the public in Pthe Forest Preserve and the Department of Environmental Conservation for over a quarter century. Peter retired in 1998. He has also served the public as a Forest Ranger in the Catskill Park. Pete lives with his family in Keene, NY, and is a graduate Artwork by Melissa Symolon of the New York State Ranger School in Wanakena. He continues to educate hik- ers, especially on the trail to Mt. Marcy, a mountain he’s climbed or skied, as of Treasure the end of May 2010, 727 times, a few of those in kilts. Peter is a member of the Board of the Tartan Educational and Cultural found! Association, Clan Macpherson Association of the United States, and the St. Andrew’s n mid-May the Glens Falls-Saratoga Society of the Adirondacks. For folks used Chapter started their first “Treasure to seeing Peter in Ranger Greens, he cuts a Hunt,” with participants answering dashing figure in the Macpherson tartan. Iquestions and riddles, with one being Peter is the recipient of the 2009 Guy released each week over a span of 10 Waterman Alpine Steward, given each year weeks. The final riddle was released on to a person or organization “that has dem- May 22 and within only a couple days onstrated a long-term commitment to pro- the first three people completed the tecting the physical and spiritual qualities hunt! Congratulations to the winners: of the northeast’s mountain wilderness.” Marsha Noble (1st place), Cassandra We’ll hear the stories: Peter’s hikes, TO REGISTER Downs (2nd place), and Carleigh rescues and mountain experiences, his This year’s Annual Dinner will be held Prodrick (3rd place). Over $200 worth kilted ascents of Mt. Marcy, what to carry at the Holiday Inn, Saratoga Springs. of “treasure” was divided between the in your pack so you come home alive, and All reservations are prepaid by mail. three finalists. how to leave no trace behind. We do not take telephone reserva- Thank you to the following spon- Peter always packs the house. Please be tions. Registration forms and menu sors for helping make the “Treasure” sure to reserve your seat early! choices will be in the September- so great: Adirondack Mountain Look for the Annual Dinner invitation November Chepontuc newsletter and Club (ADK), mySmartSimulations, and registration on the cover of your next also available online at www.adk-gfs. D’Andrea’s Pizzeria, Esperantos, newsletter or on the website at www.adk- org after Labor Day. Bettie’s Cakes — A Cupcakery Cafe, gfs.org after Labor Day. and Hotdog Charlies. Over the brook and hepontuc ootnotes C PublishedF Bimonthly Glens Falls-Saratoga Chapter adiroNdaCk MountaiN Club through the woods P.O. Box 2314 Glens Falls, NY 12801 • www.adk-gfs.org ExecuTive Committee By Heidi terieLe karkoSkI Officers: Chair Heidi teRiele Karkoski 25 Black point Road, Ticonderoga, Ny 12883 t is probably safe “rill” fit in the hierarchy phone: 585-7206 • e-mail: [email protected] First Vice Chair Maureen Coutant to say that any hike of brooks and streams 22 pinion pine Lane., Queensbury, Ny 12804 in the Adirondacks and rivulets? This inquir- phone: 745-7834 • e-mail: [email protected] Second Vice Chair Tricia Lockwood Iwill take you along or ing hiker wanted to 91 Bardin Road, Hudson Falls, Ny 12839 phone: 275-6054 • e-mail: [email protected] across at least one body know. Secretary John Caffry of water, but likely sev- I hit the books and 25 Wing St., Glens Falls, Ny 12801 phone: 798-0624 • e-mail: [email protected] eral before the day is learned that in the US, Treasurer John Schneider 6 Nonchalant Dr., Saratoga Springs, Ny 12866 done. I enjoyed a pleas- a natural flow of water phone: 584-8527 • e-mail: [email protected] chapTeR chair ant late spring hike over more than 60 feet wide Directors John Schneider Little Porter to Porter is considered a river, See Treasurer contact information above Mountain recently and and less than 60 feet Laura Fiske Report 16 Barber St., Ballston Spa, Ny 12020 encountered many bab- wide is called a stream. phone: 884-0345 • e-mail: [email protected] Linda Ranado bling brooks along the A brook is a “small See education chair contact information below Rivers, streams, way. My friend, who is stream” and that term is Past Chapter Chair Jean Holcomb 30 Schuyler Drive, Saratoga Sprints, Ny 12866 a keen observer, pointed brooks, creeks — often interchanged with phone: 583-0658 • e-mail: [email protected] Committee Chairs: out wrens musically what’s the difference? creek, branch, beck, kill, Annual Dinner Susan Hamlin Box 823, Saratoga Springs, Ny 12866 chirping in the trees and lick, runnel, streamage, phone: 587-5456 patches of colorful wildflowers. We wash, and others. A stream is a “small Conservation Jacki Bave 14 Round Table Rd., Saratoga Springs, Ny 12866 explored open hillsides with spectacu- river” and any brook, stream, or river phone: 587-3754 • e-mail: [email protected] lar views and pondered how different that flows into a larger course is a Education Linda Ranado 18 pine Ridge Road, Hadley, Ny 12835 the woods would be in just a few short tributary. A river is a natural flow of e-mail: [email protected] weeks — unfurling ferns, brambles water that drains into a lake or ocean. Hospitality Gretchen Steen 2217 county Route 46, Fort edward, Ny 12828 leafing out to catch the sun and tangle Drainage, rill, and rivulet often refer phone: 638-6139 • e-mail: [email protected] Membership Pat Desbiens the path, new leaves in the canopy to to narrow seasonal channels created 16A Rovanten park, Ballston Lake, NY 12019 replace the ones blackened by frost. by runoff. “And I shall see the snow phone: 899-9688 • e-mail: [email protected] Newsletter/Editor Jill Gruben My discovery of a patch of moose all go downhill, in water of a slender 4 Nostalgia Lane, Ballston Spa, Ny 12020 droppings led us to explore a semi- April rill ...” I must also note that his- phone: 309-4198 • e-mail: [email protected] Outings Jack Whitney open area high on Porter’s flanks torically, some bodies of water were phone: 793-9210 • e-mail: [email protected] where we found evidence of a moose so-called by preference of the per- Program Terry Peek 11c Robanten park, Ballston Spa, Ny 12019 yard used last summer or fall. It was son naming it and not any scientific phone: 899-1129 • e-mail: [email protected] Publicity Ryan Simko near a place where the trail crosses method. 60 castleberry Drive, Gansevoort, Ny 12831 a small band of flowing water — a Every river, stream and brook is a phone: (219) 775-3336 • e-mail: [email protected] Trails Tom Ellis brook. I wondered if it ran all year treasure, no matter what we call it. 2217 county Route 46, Fort edward, Ny 12828 or just seasonally. Did the moose These waterways give us great canoe- phone: 638-6139 • e-mail: [email protected] Web site George Sammons drink from this or use the larger flow ing and kayaking, scenic camping 105 Farr Lane, Queensbury, Ny 12804 phone: 743-9692 • e-mail: [email protected] a short distance away? What defines destinations, and routes to remote Wilderness Jim Schneider a brook anyway and how is a brook areas. To my moose, it doesn’t matter 30 elizabeth Lane, Saratoga Springs, Ny 12866 phone: 581-9367 different from a stream? How does if he’s drinking from a brook, a creek Young Members Group Jonathan Lane my favorite Robert Frost water word or a runnel. Water is life. 547 Middle Line Road, Ballston Spa, Ny 12020 phone: 744-4594 • e-mail: [email protected] 2011 Chapter Winter Celebrate the Weekend at Heart Lake seasons in the The Chapter will hold its 2011 Winter 16 in four four-person bunkrooms. The Adirondacks Weekend at the Wiezel Trails Cabin rate for the weekend should be no more at Heart Lake during the 2011 Martin than $120 per person, if we fill all 16 he Adirondack landscape is Luther King Weekend — Friday, January spaces. endowed with lofty mountains and 14, to Monday, January 17, 2011. To reserve your spot, send your rich northern forests reflected in From the cabin, we will be able to deposit of $120 per person as soon as Tover 2,800 lakes and ponds, and thousands cross-country ski and snowshoe many possible to John Schneider, 6 Nonchalant of miles of flowing waterways. Imprinted area High Peaks. This is a good oppor- Drive, Saratoga Springs, New York with four distinct seasons, the scenery tunity for those of you working toward 12866. Call 518-584-8527 for more evolves continually. Each season brings your Winter 46. Algonquin, Iroquois, details. Reservations are on a first-come, new wonders and challenges, yet this Wright, Phelps, Tabletop, Marcy and first-serve basis.