New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is hosting the Catskills Fire Tower Challenge 2024. If you hike all six Catskills fire towers in a year you will receive a patch. All you need to do is hike the towers, track your miles, fill out the time sheet and email it to catskillschallenge@dec.ny.gov. This year…
Three years ago we hiked Panther Mountain with family members on a nice June morning. We did not sign up for the Catskill 3500 Club challenge then but did talk about it with the two family members that completed it. One member was only ten years old at that time! He truly put us to…
For a while we’ve wanted to start the Catskill 3500 and we finally did with, Slide, Cornell and Wittenberg under our belts. We started our journey at Oliverea Road where the parking lot was already starting to fill up. Some hikers just woke up from their pitched tents and were getting ready for their adventures….
If you are visiting Milford Pennsylvania be sure to stop and explore Grey Towers National Historic Site. Before you step inside the Gifford Pinchot House or The Pinchot Institute, be sure to walk the grounds like we did. Before going to the Milford Pet Supply store for our cats, we went to visit the Pinchot…
Today we hiked Hackers Falls and Cliff Trail Loop, which is supposed to be about 3.7 miles long, according to All Trails. We managed to do a little more. We arrived at Raymondskill Falls parking lot around 9:30am, put our microspikes on and crossed the road. The last time we hiked to the falls we…
If you’ve never visited Delaware Water Gap to see Dingmans Falls and Silverthread Falls, now is the time. It has been on our list for a while, but we have never made it. We were supposed to go to Lowe’s, but someone decided just to keep driving, and before we knew it, we were in…
While driving through Forestburgh we noticed a new NYSDEC sign for Fish Hatchery Trail from Cold Spring Road. We came home, got ready and went back to check out the trail. It was 25 minutes after eleven when we started walking and the sky was grey. The Fish Hatchery trail starts behind the kiosk and…
