Category: Trail Running and Hiking

This morning I cross-country skied at the Vischer Ferry Preserve in Clifton Park. It is a very friendly place to ski, with lots of long, straight trails, perfectly flat as […]

I hiked along the Plotter Kill, a small creek in Rotterdam that flows in the bottom of a very tall and steep ravine. The ravine formed only 10,000 years ago […]

Did you know…?! Saratoga Springs is home to the only active spouting geysers east of the Missisippi. As soon as I heard the news I had to go and see […]

I explored a section of the Cooley Kill, a creek too small for kayaking. I started out on a tributary of the Cooley Kill. Most of the first section was […]

I took a short walk through the Dwaas Kill Nature Preserve this morning. The preserve was only recently acquired. As of today it is still pretty wild, but trailwork and […]

A friend and I hiked two of the Adirondack high peaks today: Whiteface and Esther mountains. The hike was just under 10 miles. This was my first hike since hurting […]

We hiked Hough and Dix mountain this weekend. It was very wet, windy, and cold. Here we are getting blasted with wind and rain at our final destination, Hough Peak: […]