Crescent Moon Snowshoes Recognized By Backpacker and Outside Magazine

Crescent Moon snowshoes, with its unique SPL binding system and lightweight “Made in USA” frames, continues to change the landscape of the snowshoe market and garner top industry awards – and this year is no different. After its binding systems were selected as the “BEST BINDING” on the market by Backpacker Magazine, Backpacker Magazine has [...]

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Trail Opens at Sylvan Glen Park Preserve, Westchester County

excerpted from http://www.nynjtc.org/news/trail-opening-sylvan-glen-park-preserve-westchester-county The first trails were completed in the Yorktown community trail network. The trail network will eventually stretch from Lexington Avenue across Stony Street and the Taconic State Parkway to Woodlands Park. Very few town parks have more than four miles of trails in a park and Yorktown will eventually have 12 miles! [...]

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A Couple Dies Photographing Waterfall – Lessons Learned

A tragic story out of New Hampshire’s White Mountains offers a reminder about the dangers of wet rocks and fast moving water. As in this case, such dangers tend to increase following heavy rains. According to a news report: The couple who drowned in the Swift River which was moving fast, was swollen by heavy [...]

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The Cure for Noxious Bicycle Gloves

by Earl,  Acme Bicycle Shop LLC Have you ever noticed that your hands begin to smell like your feet after a few rides?   Have you ever tried to eat a sandwich after a good ride, in stinky gloves?  “Kinda cures your hunger”. Bike gloves often end up soaked from sweat, mud, tire dirt and or [...]

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Pierson Park in Tarrytown Design Revised

By Sean Roach , Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch, link to original post with MAP It’s been over four years in the making, but Pierson Park is now closing in on its final design. Oct 18, 8 p.m., at Tarrytown Village Hall, there will be a presentation of the latest design plans for the park; it is [...]

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new canoe/kayak fishing access point on Chittenango Creek

Discussion on recent developments with the creation of a canoe/kayak fishing access point on Chittenango Creek down South Road took place Oct 18 by the Bridgeport-Lakeport Civic Organization.

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Snowmobile Clubs in New York

Snowmobile Clubs in New York

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Hiking: Harriman State Park

by Daniel Chazin, The Record, NorthJersey.com, link to original post FEATURES: This loop hike follows portions of the never-completed Dunderberg Spiral Railway, climbs to the summit of Bald Mountain and passes several expansive viewpoints over the Hudson River. LENGTH: 7 miles DIFFICULTY: Strenuous. TIME: About 5 1/2 hours. MAP: New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Harriman-Bear [...]

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The Meadows in Fall

Click here for photos and a description of hiking the Meadow Trails at Gosnell Big Woods and Big Meadows in Webster, NY. This trail network is one of 67 mapped and described in the NEW 3rd edition of “Take A Hike – Family Walks in the Rochester, NY Area.”

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Travel the World and Experience Local Cultures

You can sign up with a lot of different travel agencies for trips to far flung places on Earth. But what you often get is  an Americanized, sanitized experience. I can tell you from personal experience, that if you want to travel to exotic locations and really experience the local culture, you have to travel [...]

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