LONG ISLAND MOUNTAINEER Adirondack Mountain Club Newsletter of the Adirondack Mountain Club Long Island Chapter Long Island Chapter 2002-2003 May & June 2003 Executive Committee President Environmental Update Dick Maemone 516-496-9127 -Jeanne Millspaugh- Vice-President OPEN Clean Water Act: Finally Spring has arrived and as ADK Club members, we Treasurer want to enjoy the weather with water activities, including swimming, canoeing and BudKazdan 631-549-5015 Secretary kayaking. Nancy Hodson 516-692-5754 Every year the waters in all the bays, rivers and designated wetlands are Director subjected to direct pollutant discharges into waterways (such as sewage) and indirect Carol McHugh 718-423-4083 discharges by runoff from the streets and lawns and trash, especially in Long Island. In the heat of the summer, many of the bays in the Long Island Sound do not Alternate Director have enough oxygen to support fish life due to the excess of nitrogen in the water. Carol Mantell 631-598-1015 You can smell the effect of this process by the hundreds of dead fish in the bays. Board of Directors What can be done is to educate people to be environmentally concerned of PhilBifulco 631-669-2326 their Earth. If you see trash laying around waterways, please pick up and throw out. Herb Coles 516-897-5306 Do not use pesticides and other pollutants on your lawns and plants, but do use June Fait 516-897-5306 organic options instead. If you do see someone or some company polluting our Micheline Kagan 718-746-4753 waterways, do call your local police or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Jim Purdy 631-754-6989 in NYC at 212-637-3000. Yoshiko Takeshita 631-751-0301 Committee Chairs Proposed By-Law Changes Passed Conservation June Fait 516-897-5306 Education At its March 13>t h meeting, the membership voted to adopt the proposed Jerry Licht 516-797-5729 changes in the Chapter By-Laws as presented in the March/April issue of the Hospitality Mountaineer. Arlene Scholer 516-354-0231 Mountaineer Ellen Kelly 516-873-1860 The changes bring the By-Laws in line with main Club By-Laws, reflect Membership present operating procedures of the Chapter and make future changes in the John White 631-654-2016 Chapter By-Laws less burdensome. Outings Sheila Lipshie 516-349-7910 Programs OPEN Publicity Arlene Scholer 516-354-0231 Publicity Flyers Susin Packert 631-952-6713 Trail Conference Judy Snyder 516-826-5261 Trail Maintenance Herb Coles 516-897-5306 Webmaster Mike Vetrano Be sure to check out our new [email protected] website prepared by Mike Vetrano. President's Corner chimes? I'm game to join you and I'm sure other By Dick Maemone members would join you as well. Who? What? When? Where? How? WHERE would they like to conserve, educate and recreate? About a year after I joined the Long Island Chapter in Our chapter fosters the mission of ADK on Long 1990,1 decided to make a list of all the members I had Island, in the Hudson Valley, in the Catskills, in the encountered on hikes, weekends and trips. (As you can Adirondacks, in the Green Mountains, in the Whites imagine, I lead a very exciting life!!! NOT!!!) The and in locales north, south and west of New York. We resultant list numbered about fifty out of a total even travel to far away places like the Caribbean, membership of less than four hundred members. Europe, Asia, and Africa. If I made the same list today, about a dozen or so years Got the wanderlust? The Long Island Chapter is the later, I think the new listing would number fifty, or place to find travel opportunities and like-minded perhaps, sixty members. However, our membership is comrades with whom to share ONCE IN A LIFETIME now about six hundred and fifty. experiences. Why not REACH OUT and touch someone, figuratively speaking of course? That means that, in rough terms, I have encountered less than ten percent of our members over the course of HOW can these absent members live without the sheer more than a dozen years. Put another way, there are DEE LITE of being an active member in the Long six hundred ADK Long Island Chapter members I Island Chapter? never met, spoke to or had any contact with whatsoever!!! To me, that's sad. Beats me!!! But I do know THEY DON'T HAVE TO!!! WHO are these members? All these folks have to do is jump into the pool. The Well, I know their names, addresses, phone numbers water is fine. I promise! and even their email addresses. But, I don't know much more. Hope to see you folks at our next outing!!! One of the pleasures of joining an organization is meeting new people and sharing experiences both novel and familiar. I'd like to meet these absent People and Perspectives members sometime. I'm a nice guy and I'm sure they -Arlene Scholer- are nice gals and guys, too. FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC: WHAT do they get from them membership in ADK? Congratulations are in order for GEORGE FORM who recently retired. It won't be long before you're I suspect that some of these members joined ADK so pursuing so many options, George, that you'll wonder as to embrace its mission of conservation, education how you had time to work! Enjoy calling each day and recreation. They joined the Long Island Chapter your own! During CAROL MANTELL's Winter because it was included in the deal. Weekend, CHRISTINE GILLEN and SUSIN PACKERT hiked Halcott, Sherrill and North Dome But, our Chapter offers its members a vast array of with JERRY LICHT as their guide. Jerry activities: backpacking, birding, canoeing, cross complimented them on their endurance considering all country skiing, cycling, hiking, kayaking, snow the snow remaining in the Catskills. "They're tougher shoeing, and peak bagging, to name just a few. hikers than they realize." Jerry recently climbed his own last winter Catskill 3500 peak on Windham to SOME of these activities JUST HAVE TO peak the receive his winter membership number of 562; the interest of you, our silent majority. If not, please let us basic membership count is almost at 1500! The 3500 know what does interest you, and we'll see if we can Club awards basic membership to hikers who climb the put it on the schedule for you. Better yet, why not offer designated 35 Catskill peaks over 3500 feet in to lead a new or unusual activity that rings YOUR elevation in any month and also reclimb 4 designated People & Perspectives (continued...) chapter to have your e-mail address on the membership roster. Members who have responded to requests for winter peaks between 12/21 and 3/21. Christine and their e-mail addresses were notified about the excellent Susin are going for basic membership and are very Kilimanjaro presentation by YOSHIKO TAKESHITA, close to finishing. You can attend their awards dinner one of the participants, in February. E-mail contacts next March. CHUCK BROCK recently volunteered to spread the word. This program had not been included head up the 3500 Club's dinner committee that is a in the winter newsletter. very demanding position. RICHARD FURMAN might have one of the lowest 3500 membership numbers in PHOTO REQUESTS CONTINUE: SILVANA the ADK-LI chapter. It is 78. Richard was an active FALCO volunteered to help me with publicity but ADK volunteer in the 80 's and 90 's when he taught photos are only trickling in. IF YOU TAKE backpacking each year to so many members. Currently PICTURES ON AN OUTING, PLEASE CONSIDER he is a valuable participant at each meeting since he SENDING THEM TO SILVANA FALCO, c/o DCIS- volunteers to set up the meeting room each month. He NYRA, One Huntington Quadrangle, Suite 2C01, also shares his knowledge of birding when he leads Melville, NY 11747. On the back of each photo, tape a outings to eastern Li's popular sites for migrating piece of paper that includes an address label and e-mail birds. Richard was recently recognized in the or phone; list the people seen, the place and possible Huntington Audubon newsletter for his valuable the title of the event (e.g. Winter weekend). Call her at participation and his ever-present good humor at work if necessary: 631 4204307 x 124. Silvana is meetings and on outings. When I first joined the attempting to produce a new bulletin board to greet chapter, JOAN and JACK WEISENBLOOM still lived members and prospective members coming to a on LI. They've been in Seattle for six years. Now that meeting. Silvana is also open to suggestions to make Jack "gave up on his knees two years ago and had them the poster's appearance op notch. MIKE VETRANO both replaced at the same time" Joan reports that "once also needs photos since he is the very talented creator again I can't keep up to him." And that is saying a lot of our chapter's website. Visit the site, adkli.org>, to since Joan reports that Jack's endured vision and read Mike's directions about photos. Become familiar hearing loss. No matter, they are still hiking and offer with it and you will be ale to mention it to friends who th their hospitality. "We are at 1950 9 Ave. W, Seattle, might enjoy membership in DK-LI. WA 98119. Phone number is (206) 282 3415. Would love to hear from you.