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Spring, 2004
If your card has expired please contact Cherie Clapper at 827-4386 or look for our
display on Friday night at the Mohawk Commons location to renew your membership. If you need new boots, guide books, rain gear or gifts, don't miss this opportunity to save big $$$.
Adopt-A-Highway
Volunteers Needed
Our club has been performing highway clean-up at least twice a year
for over seven years on a 1.5 mile stretch of Route 30 under Vroman's Nose,
L.P. Section 29 in Middleburgh. In the past, we have had a small local
group of members getting together on a day's notice to get the job done.
The work normally takes just a few hours during a weekday morning usually
once in the spring and fall.
NYS Dept. of Transportation is now requiring that we have more
people to meet the new safety regulations. If you can lend a hand for a
few hours, please give Harold Guest Jr. a call at 518-827-5995 to have your
name added to the clean-up call list. We are also looking for new
maintainers for Greene County L.P. Sections 24 & 25.
Membership Renewals
Last year we instituted a new membership renewal process to reduce
postage costs and bookkeeping. As a result, all annual membership dues are
due in June. To determine when your membership is to expire, or if it did
expire, please check the mailing label on this newsletter for a four digit
code. The first two numbers (06) is for June and the last two are for the
year of membership expiration (02, 03, 04, 05).
We have continued to maintain the newsletter mailing list with
members who have not renewed since 2002. This will be the last newsletter
sent to these past-due members as their names will be dropped from our
mailing list unless their dues are send in. (Please don't get dropped, we
need your support.)
The club's dues haven't been increased in our ten year history and
remain as follows: Individual $5, Family $10, Supporting Group $15,
Sustaining $25, and a Life membership is $150. Dues should be mailed to:
Long Path North Hiking Club, Cherie Clapper, Treasurer, P.O. Box 200, West
Fulton, NY 12194.
If members have any questions or concerns about their membership
status, please give Cherie a call at 518-827-4386 for information.
New Memberships
We welcome the following people who have joined the club during the
past few months:
R. Philip Arnold, Phyllis & Pete Attanasio, Wendy Carroll, Charlotte Goddard,Wayne Kant, Raymond Koch, Peter Lounsbery, Frank Pauli, Diana
Praus, Charles & Jean Press, John & Joan Rose, Rudolph Snyder, Larry Strack, Raymond Zeh and a new life membership from Howard Hart, thank you very much for your support.
Next time you renew, please consider becoming a life member to give added support to the club. Also, if your address has changed due to 911 addressing or you have moved recently, please contact Cherie Clapper @ 827-4386 with your new address or this may be your last newsletter.Cherie also has the new L.P. Guide books for a reduced member price of $15 which includes postage.
Annual Meeting Report
From Sept. 6, 2003
Our annual membership meeting was held at the Emma Treadwell Thacher
Nature Center. The members that attended re-elected the three board members
who's terms were to expire; Howard Hart, Brandie Spohn and Harold Vroman.
At our March meeting, club officers Dan Kwiatkowski, President, Harold Guest
Jr., Vice Pres., Cherie Clapper, Treasurer, and Clarence Putman, Secretary.
were voted in for another term.
Jane Daniels, the NY/NJ Trail Conference Chairperson was present to
thank our club for all the hard work we have been doing on the Long Path
North over the years. She also assured us that the L.P. is a high
priority at the Trail Conference and work is continuing to protect and
purchase more of the L.P. corridor. North of the Catskill Park in Greene
County several parcels were purchased last year and more will follow.
Although Schoharie & Albany County sections are still very vulnerable, with
several landowner transfers, the State and T.C. were not able to secure any
of the trail in this area last year. The NY/NJ T.C. is developing a Long
Path Fund to collect donations earmarked for purchasing corridors, easements
and small parcels.
Howard Hart reported that he has been pursuing possible off-road
routes north of Wolf Hollow in Schenectady County with good results and
reblazing will be made this summer.
Clarence Putman has filed for a permit with the NYC Dept. of
Environmental Protection for an off-road route by the Gilboa Dam. He is
also working with the NYS Power Authority in Blenheim to take the trail
through Nickerson's Campground to the Mine Kill State Park.
EMS Club Day Sale
Saturday, April 24
Twice-a-year, Eastern Mountain Sports, the store that carries it
all, has a Club Day Sale when you can save 20% on all in-stock purchases.
Although the store in the Crossgates Mall has closed, there are two new ones
now open, in the Stuyvesant Plaza, Rte. 20, Albany and Mohawk Commons
(Mohawk Mall), Balltown Rd., Schenectady. This one day sale (which starts
Friday at 4:00) is for membership card holders only, so don't forget your
valid LPNHC card.
Long Path North Hiking Club
P.O. Box 855
Schoharie, NY 12157
Up Coming Club Outings
Please call hike leader to register and ascertain the particulars of
the hike at least one week before event. Assumed Risk: persons
participating do so at their own risk, as hiking involves certain inherent
hazards. It is also assumed that participants will match their ability with
the degree of difficulty of each outing. Each person should be equipped
with sturdy boots, ample water, food, and during colder months, snowshoes,
crampons, and layered clothing (no cotton), and always think "rain-gear".
If car-pooling, be prepared to assume a share of the driver's cost.
Apr. 24,25 EMS CLUB DAY SALE - 20% off all purchases to club members, sale starts Friday @ 4:00
May 5 Huckleberry Point, 4.5 mi., excellent views, fairly easy hike.
Call leader: Fred Schroeder at 283-7584 or e-mail marfred2@juno.com
May 8 Vroman's Nose, 1.5 mi., relaxed-pace, excellent views, call leader:
Carol Traver @ 295-8039
May 11 L.P. Trail Maintenance on Sect. 34, work a little or a lot, call
Fred Schroeder.
May 22 Hike of leader's choice TBA, call Harold Guest Jr. @ 827-5995.
May 22 NY/NJ Trail Maintenance Workshop, @ North Lake, for pre-registration call 201-512-9348
May 31 Black Dome & Thomas Cole Mt., 6 mi., call Fred Schroeder to register
early for this one.
June 5 National Trails Day, trail clearing in Thacher Park with a short hike after, call Fred Schroeder.
June 9 L.P. Sect. 28, Eminance State Forest, 6 mi., leader: Fred Schroeder
June 12 Balsam Lake Mt., 5 mi. relaxed pace, lunch at fire tower, call leader: Carol Traver
June 21 First day of Summer Hike, Huckleberry Point, excellent views and the Mt. Laurel should be in full bloom, call Harold Guest Jr. @ 827-5995.
July 10 L.P. Sect. 30, Durfee Rd. to MT Path, 5 mi., great valley views, call Mark Traver @ 295-8039
July 17 Hike of leader's choice TBA, call Harold Guest Jr.
July 31 L.P. Sect. 30, Treadlemire Rd. to Cannady Hill, 5.5 mi., call leader Mark Traver
