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Catskill 3500 Club

Today’s Hike 3-14-2009

March 14, 2009

Today I’ll be hiking West Kill Mountain.  At 3,880′, it’s the 6th highest mountain in the Catskills.  It’ll be a tough climb, even though I’m starting at around 2,100′.  Round-trip, the hike should be about 6 miles (starting from the parking area at the end of Route 6 in Spruceton.   View Larger Map This [...]

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Busy, Busy, Busy

March 10, 2009

…as the Trafalmadorians say. This Past Weekend   On Saturday I climbed Rusk Mountain, as I mentioned in that day’s post.  It was a pretty easy bushwack – only about a mile or so to the summit.  That was 31/39 peaks on the way to that Catskill 3500 Club membership I’m working on.  You can [...]

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It’s Time to Ramble On

March 7, 2009

If you have the album Led Zeppelin II, I recommend you flip over the record and point the needle to the third set of grooves – track 7 on the CD:  Ramble On is the title of this post and the theme for today in my life.  Here’s a live version from I-don’t-know-when-or-where.  For maximum [...]

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Today’s Hike 2-8-2009

February 8, 2009

Today we’ll be hiking Balsam Lake Mountain:   View Larger Map This is 30/39 in our quest to become members of the Catskill 3500 Club.  Nine mountains left to go. It’s supposed to be in the 50s here in Jersey, but between 11 and 38 degrees in the Catskills, with at 30% chance of precipitation.  Yay [...]

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Hiking Photos

January 28, 2009

I finally got my hiking partner Scott (the vegan success story and current blog-commenter extraordinaire) to dig up his USB cable for his digital camera and bring it by my house.  It took about two months and five minutes in total to get the photos since July uploaded to mycomputer. I’m still working on the [...]

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Today’s Hike 1-24-2009

January 24, 2009

Today we’ll be hiking Balsam Mountain. This is one of the four required “winter peaks” for admission to the Catskill 3500 Club.  The last time we climbed this mountain was December 13th of 2008 (just before winter the ”beginning” of winter on 12/22).     View Larger Map In case you haven’t perused the Hiking Page lately, Scott and I carry [...]

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Probably No Hike This Weekend

January 11, 2009

It doesn’t look like Scott and I will make it to the Catskills this weekend. We were supposed to get a good dumping of snow, starting Friday night or yesterday morning, so we figured it would be best to let the snow blow in and give the plowers a chance to do their job. The [...]

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Today’s Hike

January 4, 2009

Today we’ll be hiking Slide Mountain.  At 4,180 feet, it is the highest mountain in the Catskills.  It’s also the most isolated peak in New York – it’s next higher neighbor is 136 miles away.  You can see the Peakbagger profile for Slide here, and read about it on Wikipedia here.  As always, if you’d [...]

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