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rafe wrote:
Looks like Lou's in his own private doghouse or something. All it needs is a window-box with flowers.
"Dazed and Confused"
Recycle, re-use, re-purpose
Plant a tree
Take a kid hiking
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If you were wearing real shoes, instead of crocks, you wouldn't have broken your ankle and needed to be rescued.
It's highly inconsiderate that you needed a rescue and cost the taxpayers money. I hope your health insurance will cover the cost of the helicopter Flight For Life as helicopters are very expensive
Just kidding -
max.patch wrote:
you look like one of those robot characters in "star wars"
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"What do you mean its sunrise already ?!", me. -
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You guys rock!
(Where was this? I see a whole zoo of blazes on that signpost, but can't make them out clearly. Is that a Long Path disc?)I'm not lost. I know where I am. I'm right here. -
AnotherKevin wrote:
You guys rock!
(Where was this? I see a whole zoo of blazes on that signpost, but can't make them out clearly. Is that a Long Path disc?)
Cheesecake> Ramen -
Any word on when the Vernooy Kill project is getting started? That's one that I'm really looking forward to. (I've whacked the route, and it's nice, but there are going to be some challenges in building a sustainable trail through there.)I'm not lost. I know where I am. I'm right here.
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AnotherKevin wrote:
Any word on when the Vernooy Kill project is getting started? That's one that I'm really looking forward to. (I've whacked the route, and it's nice, but there are going to be some challenges in building a sustainable trail through there.)
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CoachLou wrote:
Neither Snow nor rain or heat of July, keeps us from Rocking your trail!!!!!
A little rain and snow kept us from doing our AT boundary work this past weekend. -
LIhikers wrote:
CoachLou wrote:
Neither Snow nor rain or heat of July, keeps us from Rocking your trail!!!!!
Cheesecake> Ramen -
Kathy and I got out to "our" section of the AT yesterday to do our boundary work.
What a beautiful day it was to be outdoors, blue sky, a moderate breeze, and temperatures in the 50s.
This trip was more about having a chance to relax, in a setting we enjoy, than about getting a lot of work done.
We walked the boundary lines of all of our parcels at an easy pace clearing a little brush, to make it easier on us the next time, as we went along. Also, we spent about 20 minutes looking for a surveyor's monument, that we've never found, without any luck.
We'll be making quite a few more trips up there, near Graymoor Spiritual Life Center in NY, to repaint line markings, to work on some signage, and to get GPS co-ordinates of the monuments.
We started doing this because Kathy enjoys bushwacking and most of the walking we do is not on a trail. In fact there is one stretch where we cross an area that is loose rocks a little smaller than basketballs. There's another spot with a significant hill that we either go up or down depending which way we're going around that parcel. Falling down that would be life changing, I'm sure. But all in all it's rewarding to do something to help maintain the trail that has brought us so much enjoyment. I do have a few photos but they'll have to wait until I bring the camera in from the car.
Let me encourage you to contact a local trail club, any trail club, and do some volunteer work.
I know the NY/NJ Trail Conference has all sorts of positions you can volunteer for, everything from web site work, to office work, and of course outdoor work. I bet other clubs are the same way and wouldn't turn away any help you might want to provide. -
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CoachLou wrote:
Martin Hunley was talking about a class for boundary marking at RPH........did you attend this?
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Who put the signs in the privy at RPH?I am human and I need to be loved - just like everybody else does
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WanderingStovie wrote:
Who put the signs in the privy at RPH?
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
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Astro wrote:
WanderingStovie wrote:
Who put the signs in the privy at RPH?
I am human and I need to be loved - just like everybody else does -
WanderingStovie wrote:
Astro wrote:
WanderingStovie wrote:
Who put the signs in the privy at RPH?
Cheesecake> Ramen -
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WanderingStovie wrote:
Astro wrote:
WanderingStovie wrote:
Who put the signs in the privy at RPH?
I may grow old but I'll never grow up. -
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CoachLou wrote:
No, Long path on Long Mtn. In the first pic, on the right is Bear Mtn. Popolopen Torm is on the left.
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CoachLou wrote:
No, Long path on Long Mtn. In the first pic, on the right is Bear Mtn. Popolopen Torm is on the left.
I'm not lost. I know where I am. I'm right here. -
AnotherKevin wrote:
CoachLou wrote:
No, Long path on Long Mtn. In the first pic, on the right is Bear Mtn. Popolopen Torm is on the left.
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I want to give kudos to the NY/NJ Trail Conference because of the good job they do in recognizing volunteers.
I used to do trail work for another organization and I never heard a thing from them. It was discouraging.
The NY/NJTC does a good job through e-mail contact, both from the club and from my supervisor, and occasionally a tee shirt or patch shows up in the mail at our house. Thanks NYNJTC! -
LIhikers wrote:
I want to give kudos to the NY/NJ Trail Conference because of the good job they do in recognizing volunteers.
I used to do trail work for another organization and I never heard a thing from them. It was discouraging.
The NY/NJTC does a good job through e-mail contact, both from the club and from my supervisor, and occasionally a tee shirt or patch shows up in the mail at our house. Thanks NYNJTC!
........a SOBO from Texas came by our new project Saturday. "Wow, look at you guyz go!.....you should go up and help those folks in Connecticut!" ......Our chief said......"They don't take care of their trails....that's why Lou works here"Cheesecake> Ramen -
I have no pics of this past weekends work. I was the quarry guy. I hooked the lines to the rocks, and ran a belay, when we moved boulders. So my gadget was in my pack!
On the south side of the AT/ Palisades Parkway crossing, after the trail heads north from Brien shelter it climbs Black Mountain, with a lovely view of Bear Mtn. to the ESE. The Tappen Zee to the SSE, and NYC to the south. As you climb down to nobo it goes down a steep gullied stretch. By fall, the first 100 ft down will get a facelift. As it swings to the left, it will not....and we are sloping a descent to the right, with a long....almost a swithback.....and it will then more gradually go around the bad spot and rejoin the original maybe 200 feet further down. The numbers I mean are vertical, not trail distance.
This week end I want to get a few miles in, but rolling around on the rocks and downed trees while building trail uses just as much energy, and gets just as much pain as a long day waking!Cheesecake> Ramen -
I know the spot you mean! Right past the county line post as you're heading south (trail north). where the trail turns east and drops off the whaleback.
Lou, you guys are taking all the challenge out of it! Yes, I understand why, and appreciate all your hard work. I'm still a little wistful.
When the NYNJTC crew put the steps in the Corkscrew Chimney on Indian Head, that was hitting one iconic feature of the Devil's Path. It was badly needed. For twenty years hikers had depended on a huge dead tree to get up that thing. When the tree finally rotted away to where it was no longer usable, the spot turned into about a 5.4 climb, with a hidden hazard since you come out of the chimney in thick hobblebush and mightn't immediately notice that you're on a knife-edge. A little too aggressive on the final mantel and you could easily go sailing headfirst off the other side of the rock.
God bless the trail crews! I can't imagine fitting the steps to it. But that was literally a killer spot.
[IMG:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OXKd9fUHQBs/TuGHuWZnBXI/AAAAAAAABh0/uBQIEnTjeTA/s1600/261964_10100118078037465_401585_46874272_6838493_n.jpg]I'm not lost. I know where I am. I'm right here. -
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Sounds sort of like Goodfellas does trail maintenance.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
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Astro wrote:
Sounds sort of like Goodfellas does trail maintenance.
Cheesecake> Ramen -
Astro wrote:
Sounds sort of like Goodfellas does trail maintenance.
Cheesecake> RamenThe post was edited 1 time, last by CoachLou ().
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