[at-l] News & Notes From the NY-NJ Trail Conference, 9/28/1999 (fwd)

["Richard S. Lubitz" <lubitz@alpha.fdu.edu>]

This is of interest to listmembers in the NY & NJ area who are too cheap
to join the trail conference.
Rich

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> From NYNJTC@aol.com Tue Sep 28 17:23:11 1999
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> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:11:43 EDT
> Subject: News & Notes From the NY-NJ Trail Conference, 9/28/1999
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> Contents:
>      Floyd causes damage, most areas open
>      Adirondack's Whitney / Hearing in Manhattan
>      SOLO Wilderness First Aid course offered
>      Land & Water Conservation Fund info site
>      Annual Meeting Oct 16th
>      Thursday Oct. 28th is EMS Club Day (& more)
>      Wolves & Wilderness, Oct. 5th (free)
> 
>      Most hiking trails in our area are open but all hikers should expect many
> blowdowns.  The Catskills have many hard-hit trails and some areas of the 
> Adirondacks are impassable. Route 9W from Bear Mtn. Inn south to Stony 
> Point is closed.
>      Storm King State Park remains closed to all uses.  The recent fires 
> there 
> revealed dozens of unexploded shells -- probably from the WWI to WWII period. 
> Some of the shells exploded during the fire.  The park will remain closed 
> until the 
> area can be cleared.  No timetable for this work has yet been set.  The 
> Conference 
> is pushing hard for a prompt federal cleanup.
> 
>      Hikers are URGED to attend and speak at a DEC hearing on classification 
> of new Adirondack forest preserve land -- Whitney and Lake Lila.  The ATV 
> crowd 
> has been out in force at the upstate hearings and we hikers need to provide a 
> balance.  The Manhattan hearing is on Monday October 4th, 6pm at the Levitt 
> State Office Building, 270 Broadway (near Chambers).  Subways: 4,5,6 to Bklyn 
> Bridge or R to City Hall or 1,2,3,9 to Chambers.  For more information, 
> contact 
> ADK: jack@adk.org or megcarr@global2000.com 
> or www.adk-nyc.org/News/news.htm   There is also a hearing tomorrow night in 
> Albany (9/29, 7pm, Albany Law School East Wing, 80 New Scotland Avenue).
> 
>      The Mosaic Outdoor Mtn. Club is sponsoring a SOLO Wilderness First Aid 
> course in NYC on Sundays, Dec. 12 and 19 (16 hour course).  These are not 
> generally offered in NYC. Cost is $99 + $20 for lunch and snacks.  See
> www.anschechesed.org/Pages/Outings/wfa.htm or contact Michael Brochstein at
> Michael_Brochstein@MBAsystems.com
> 
>      The Appalachian Mountain Club has wonderful web database on the Land & 
> Water Conservation Fund.  See www.outdoors.org.  Many organizations, 
> including 
> the Trail Conference, have banded together to support full funding of this 
> important federal program.  Visit the site and use it to help generate 
> congressional support 
> for the NY-NJ Highlands, the Northern Forest and so many other programs 
> worthy openspace programs.
> 
>      Upcoming events:
>      Sat., Oct 2nd, Trail Maintenance Workshop.  Call the office, 
> 212/685-9699. for
> any last minute opening information.
>      Sat. Oct 16th, Annual Meeting.  Registration required.  See the 
> Sept-Oct. Trail
> Walker (p.8) for details and a form.  After Sept. 30th, call the office for 
> space
> availability information.
> 
>      Thurs. Oct 28th is EMS Club Day.  Mark your calendar now to take 
> advantage
> of this semi-annual 20% off everything sale with your New York-New Jersey 
> Trail
> Conference membership card.  And don't forget our 22-store 10% year round 
> discount program.  For a full list see www.nynjtc.org/discounts.html.  You 
> can 
> also link there to the wonderful new website from the Catskill Hiking Shack of
> Wurtsboro NY, www.catskillhikes.com.  Owners Susan and John are trail 
> maintaining members of NYNJTC.
> 
>      Wolves and Wilderness, a free special program of the Knickerbocker 
> Chapter 
> of the Adirondack Mtn. Club, will be presented on Tuesday, October 5th on 
> Manhattan's Upper West Side.  NYNJTC members are invited.  For more info, 
> visit www.adk-nyc.org/activities/activities.htm or e-mail them at 
> jkolp@compuserve.com
> 
>     We once again thank the 240 members and friends who joined us last 
> Sunday at the Bear Mtn. Inn to honor outgoing President Neil Zimmerman for 
> his 12 years of service to the hiking community.  We can't say that Neil was 
> "speechless" but do know he had a good time and danced well beyond the 
> time most of the rest of us had left for home.
> 
> 
> Good hiking...
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