When animal (sort of) attack: A view to a quill
Scene: Early autumn atop Hunter Mountain in the Catskills in the 1970s. Characters: A mother (Hi Mom!), who is the firetower observer, and her incredibly well-behaved, good-looking son (me!) Action:...
View ArticleMaybe it’s time to review the guy code
I guess I grew up in a time when guys didn’t put any “product” in their hair … except maybe sawdust or hay by accident. They didn’t wear sandals, they didn’t hug each other and they never said anything...
View ArticleRyan Gosling, we will TAKE YOU OUT
And by that I mean, of course, that we would be happy to introduce the star of the upcoming movie “The Place Beyond the Pines” (being filmed in Schenectady this summer) to the wonders of upstate New...
View ArticleCyclists will give you bad directions… pass it on
I can see the temptation to asking someone on a bike for directions. - We’re already on the side of the road so you don’t have to get out of the car. - We’re obviously brilliant because we’re riding...
View ArticleLost Florida hikers spend a cold, pretty gross night in the Adirondacks
A good example of yellow journalism from Brian Nearing: NEWCOMB — It’s not in any survival manual, but a group of lost hikers in the Adirondacks during a rainy overnight last week tried to fend off the...
View ArticleCapital District now known as Great Bearington…or Bearsville
We’ve had a couple country bears trying to become city bears recently. Also, one bare lady at Stewart’s, but that’s another story. We seem to be becoming the Cape Churchill for black bears. People, of...
View ArticleThe Hunger Games of Cycling in North Creek
“This thing expired in 2011.” That was my friend Dave, reading the expiration date on a Power Bar. We were nearly 60 miles into the Ididaride and I’d ridden over 80 miles the day before. I’d never...
View ArticleResistance Training: Running with pit-bulls
Pit bulls can be dangerous. I know this from experience. Of course, I’m not running away from pit bulls, I’m running with them. Or trying to run with them, even if they aren’t trying that hard to run...
View ArticleIt’s getting “squatchy” in here
There’s a great story by Casey Seiler on the TU web site today: DEC: Bigfoot does not exist. Is the best part the whole premise of the story (that someone asked the DEC to declare bigfoot an endangered...
View ArticleTwo demerits for reading this post
Sometimes the things that went wrong on a trip are more memorable than the things that went right. Maybe you’ve been in a canoe dozens of times and forgotten about half those trips, but you sure...
View ArticleWhat does the fox say?
There seems to be some confusion lately on the vocalizations of the red fox. Two guys from Norway (see above) think the fox says, “gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding” or “fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow.”...
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