It is one thing to see an animal in the wild, but it’s something very different to experience an animal through the clues it leaves behind. Julie Seyfert-Lillis would argue it engages parts of us that we often neglect. This ancient art blends scientific thinking and imagination and brings a sense of well-being from the […]

Join Dr. Michael Kudish, forest historian, for this look back into the Catskills’ distant past. One Catskill Mountain Club officer reported a mountain laurel thicket along the Finger Lakes Trail on the west ridge of Campbell Mountain. We will try to find this thicket and measure its size and growth rate. Then we will estimate […]

Hike these two High Peaks on the Devil’s Path with Cal Johnson.  The Devil’s Path is a very rugged trail known as one of the most difficult trails in the eastern US. Twin (3640′) and Indian Head (3573′) form the eastern end of the trail, offering great views and tough scrambles. Total ascent is about […]