hiking
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 1:37 pm
A snowman at Buck Ridge Lookout on West Kill Mountain, at 3,500 feet of elevation. Photo by Bob Moses.
Our correspondent Aaron Bennett, the regional director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper, led a hike up West Kill mountain in Greene County on Saturday.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 - 7:38 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that a 19-year-old hiker, whose name has not yet been released, was killed today in a fall:
Police said the teenager was hiking with fellow students from Bard when he left the group to hike to the top of the falls. He apparently... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 11:19 am
Ever since its inception back in 1993, National Trails Day has been held on the first Saturday in June. If you have never heard of National Trails Day, it is the only nationwide celebration of trails and was inspired by President Ronald Reagan's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jun. 6, 2010 - 12:10 pm
17-year-old Olivia Rose Belfiglio fell to her death Friday afternoon while hiking with friends in the Devil's Kitchen in Hunter. It's the second fatality in just over a month in the area.
From the Times Herald-Record:
Authorities said none of the hikers... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 12:20 pm
Daily Star columnist Rick Brockway encounters a piece of history on a Catskills hike:
The aluminum fuselage and tattered wings are all that remained of the plane. If John Grace had been flying just a few feet higher, he would have missed the wooded peak... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 - 12:02 pm
Albany hiker DSettahr spent the weekend hiking up Windham High Peak, and he tells the Views from the Top forum that already, the flies are biting:
We had the lean-to to ourselves on Saturday night. We saw and heard some bugs during the evening Friday and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 6:01 pm
This just in from the DEP: The agency that polices New York City's upstate watershed will open 12,000 acres of city-owned watershed land to recreation. A total of 71,000 DEP-owned acres in the New York City watershed are now open to the public, according... Read more
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