Write-up: Dianna Morris Leader: Dianna Morris Co-Leader: Greg Sipp Thirty-seven (!!!) of us took off on a nice autumn morning to hike the Woodhull State Forest trail. Since we walked along a groomed, two-way snowmobile trail, this made for easy hiking and socializing. There is one steep hill on this trail, otherwise the trail is relatively flat. With only one minor incidence of exhaustion on the part of a first-time hiker (who recovered quickly after she got off the trail),…

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Write-up: Dianna Morris Leader: Dianna Morris Co-Leader: Lorrie Wazielewski A beautiful day that was originally forecast to be rain-filled, but turned out warm and mostly sunny had 28 of us heading off to explore the nature trail. The ride over Jordanville Rd to Van Hornesville was pretty with distant hills covered with muted autumn colors and rolling farm fields along the road. The trail we hiked was originally an 18th century trail and was used by Washington and early settlers…

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Write-up: Dianna Morris Leader: Dianna Morris Co-Leader: Tom Smith A large group of us met up at Gems Along the Mohawk – which, on that day, was not a great place to meet up as there was limited parking due to a bus trip that took off before we got there. I gave everyone verbal instructions of where we were headed and took off – and waited each time after 3 traffic lights on Main St in Mohawk – and…

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Fifteen Tramps met in Newcomb at 9:30 and drove to Minerva and the Northwoods Club Road.  We took a slight “detour”  to check out the rustic wooden gates at the entrance to the Northwoods Club. This club, established as a farm and hotel in 1850 was frequented by the rich and famous. Winslow Homer* painted there in the summers and rumor has it that in 1919 the “4 Vagabonds” (Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Thomas Edison and John Burrows) also visited…

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Write-up: Walt Pillar Leader: Walt Pillar Co-Leader: Meg Higgerson 14 of us biked, hiked and rode the 5 miles into the Great Camp Santanoni on a gloomy September day. A special tour with a description of the history and activities of the camp and farm were given by Bill and Meg Higgerson, who are part of a group restoring the camp. The Higgersons hosted a wonderful barbecue at their nearby mini-great camp after the tour.

Leader: Mark Decker Co-leader: Margaret Decker We had 29 people hike on a beautiful day on the Mohawk river in Rome.  The Mohawk river is 149 miles long and the largest tributary of the Hudson River.  The Mohawk flows into the Hudson river in Cohoes, NY

Leader: Don Fellows Co-Leader: Madonna Fellows Although the weather forecast prevented some folks from showing up to kayak today, four of us had a most enjoyable day. We started by having to drag our kayaks through about 4 inches of water until it was deep enough to get in and paddle. It was a little on the mucky side but the only complaints were from the co- leader. The sun began to make an entrance into blue skies for a good…

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Write-up: Greg Sipp Leader – Greg Sipp Co-Leader – Madonna Fellows Fifteen of us hiked briskly to the lean-to at Bear Lake near McKeever with everyone making it.  It was a gorgeous day with temps in the low 70’s, hiking approx 5.5 miles round trip.  A prior attempt on snow shoes resulted in less than perfect results and a rep that Sharon says is unshakeable.  Lunch at the lean-to was nice with minimal bug annoyance and then we hiked back….

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Write-up: Walt Pillar Leader: Walt Pillar Co-Leader: Jim Wazielewski 13 of us (10 Tramps, 1 newbie and 2 interlopers) paddled 6.5 miles from the launch on Brookwood Point to the Stone Bridge on the Susquehanna, back up the lake to Kingfisher Tower and stopped for lunch at the Blue Mingo Café before returning to Brookwood Point. The weather was great but the lake was choppy; company was great. Blue shirts were the uniform of the day.     More photos…

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Write-up: Mary Pat Connors Leader: Mary Pat Connors Co-Leader: Madonna Fellows The weather forecast was iffy, but seven Tramps took the chance on going the distance to Forked Lake. We put in at Whitney Point, toward the western end of Forked Lake, in order to be closer to the outlet to Brandreth Lake. We agreed to explore Brandreth Lake outlet as far as we could without going over a beaver dam. We saw several beaver lodges, but were able to…

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