Spring is here!

Time to put away all those cold weather clothes and start lookin’ good for your Spring and Summer wardrobe. What? Of course- no better way to trim off all that Winter bulk than a hiking regimen!

We’ll cover Sunday!

As you might know, Harriman Hikers meets to hike each and every Sunday, rain or shine, sun or shower, year-round at 11:30 a.m at Parking Lot 1-B, South Lots, Ramapo College of NJ, 505 Ramapo Valley Road (Route 202 North), Mahwah, NJ 07430. MAPS

Established 1974, we are one of the longest-existing outdoor singles groups in our area. When we say we are there every Sunday for hiking, we mean it.

BTW, Does anybody remember hiking by this sign last summer?

Harriman Hikers Wilderness Message Board

Come to think of it, it probably wasn’t last Summer, it was actually probably around APRIL FOOL’S DAY! har, har!

Be assured, tho, there is no kidding that we have been hiking as a group every Sunday for over 30 years- b there or b L7!

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News From Gene

Many of us who have been with the group for a while are on Gene’s email list, to which he sends updates of his hiking adventures in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and as such, received his recent missive describing the first hike of his 2007 hiking season as well as some photos of his adventures.

If you are relatively new to our group, then you may not ever have had a chance to meet Gene Doleschal, our Hike Leader Emeritus and may not be on his email list.

Fear not, we have posted his letter and photos on our website for all to enjoy!

If you would like to get on Gene’s email list, email us and we will gather up all the requests and send them to Gene in one batch.

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Leah’s a Grandmother!

Leah Schwartz, a long-time Harriman Hiker, is now a proud GRANDMOTHER. Leah’s daughter Danielle gave birth to Lucy Madison Brennan, 6.7 pounds, March 17th, 2007. Congratulations to all!

We hear Leah’s already shopping hiking boots for that baby!

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Saturday Hike in April

Ed Burdzy will lead an additional hike Saturday, April 21st, 2007.

The hike is in addition-to and does not replace or affect Harriman Hikers regular Sunday Hike. Harriman Hikers meets every Sunday for hiking, rain or shine, year-round, as we have for over 30 years.

The hike is coordinated privately by Harriman Hikers Hike Leader, Ed Burdzy. Please contact Ed by phone 973-471-0492 for questions or more info about this hike.

Hike destination will be determined by Ed, day of hike.

Meetup for Ed’s hike on Saturday, April 21st, 2007 is as usual for “Ed Hikes”, 10am in the south (public) end of the parking lot at the Mason Jar Restaurant on Route 202 in Mahwah, NJ. Map

Ed’s Saturday hikes can be more ambitious and longer (8-12 miles or more) than Harriman Hikers’ Sunday hikes. You must speak with Ed first if you have not hiked with Ed before, spoken with him about joining his Saturday hike and/or have any reservations about your abilities as a hiker. Contact Ed Burdzy 973-471-0492 for questions and more info.

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C-ya hikin’

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Greetings Harriman Hikers!

After a temporary, but much needed sabatical, Harriman Hikers Newsletter is tanned, rested and ready to write stuff!

We hope everyone is well and enjoying (or making the best of, depending on your point of view;-) this lovely Winter of 2007. After a somewhat balmy start, Winter FINALLY seemed to arrive around the beginning of February and with that, temps and weather in general in have seemed to be on par with other Winters past.

It seems like we have had just enough snow to enhance the beauty of the forests we hike in without making the going too tough; this is cold comfort (pun TOTALLY intended;-) for the skiers in our midst, ski conditions locally have been pretty skimpy for the most part for cross-country skiers, however there have been some reports lately of good skiing locally at favorites such as Fahnestock Winter Park and Minnewaska State Park. Mohonk, in the ‘Gunks could be pretty good right now as well as destinations further north in the Catskills and on up to the Adirondacks and western New York State. Downhill skiers have always needed to go on the road for the most part and recently, significant snowfall upstate and around New England is surely making these folks happy.

Lest anyone forget, we would like to remind one and all that the Harriman Hikers hike EVERY Sunday, rain or shine, snow or sleet! We meet up for hiking EVERY SUNDAY at 11:30 am in the South Parking Lots, Field B-1, of the Ramapo College of New Jersey on Route 202 in Mahwah, NJ. MAPS

We’ll be there- will you?

Our website publication, Harriman Hikers Guide to Winter and Cold Weather Hiking has proven for many to be a valuable source of information for outfitting themselves for hiking comfortably during the colder weather. You can probably hike more comfortably than you imagine, it’s not overly expensive to dress right and you can pretty much buy anything you don’t already have locally. Winter is an excellent time to get out and hike as many of us tend to become somewhat sedentary when the the weather turns cold. Do your health a favor and take a hike!

Ed and Greg have been busy planning new hike routes and if you have been hiking with with us you know what I’m talkin’ bout! We continue to hike to many of the hike destinations we are all very familiar with, but Ed and Greg, as well as having expert general knowledge of the trails, are both extremely talented and creative when it comes planning hike routes. There seems to be no end to to the trail combinations and routes our hike leaders use to plan hikes for each Sunday. Ed has a personal interest in exploring and utilizing disused or abandoned trails and in sharing these routes with us, Ed has introduced us to many routes and areas of the parks previously unknown and/or unexplored by many of the rest of us.

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Ed has an additional hike coming up on Saturday March 17th.Ed Burdzy will lead an additional hike Saturday, Mar 17th, 2007. Please read all the way thru this announcement as the meetup time is earlier than usual for Ed’s hikes and the destination for this hike is pre-determined.

Also- Rain cancels the Sat Mar 17th Hike. In the event of rain this hike will be rescheduled for the following Saturday, Mar 24th.

The Sat Mar 17th, 2007 hike is in addition-to and does not replace or affect Harriman Hikers regular Sunday Hike. Harriman Hikers meets every Sunday for hiking, rain or shine, year-round, as we have for over 30 years.

The Sat Mar 17th, 2007 is coordinated privately by Harriman Hikers Hike Leader, Ed Burdzy. Please contact Ed by phone 973-471-0492 for questions or more info about this hike.

Hike destination will be Minnewaska State Park, Gardiner, NY.

Meetup for Ed’s hike on Saturday, Mar 17th, 2007 will be 9:30am (please note this an earlier meetup than usual for Ed’s hikes!) in the south (public) end of the parking lot at the Mason Jar Restaurant on Route 202 in Mahwah, NJ. Map

Hikers in good physical condition are welcome to join Ed’s hike. If you have hiked with the Harriman Hikers and can handle the usual 7-8 miles of hiking over hilly, rocky terrain in warm weather, then you are a likely candidate for Ed’s Saturday, Mar 17th, 2007 Hike; however, please note that as the daylight hours get longer, Ed’s hikes tend to be more ambitious than Harriman Hikers’ regular Sunday hikes.

Contact Ed Burdzy 973-471-0492 for questions and more info.

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Our website has a few upgrades worth noting- it’s now easier than ever to receive our news and stay informed of upcoming events!

Look on the right hand column on our homepage you will see that there are now options to:
-Subscribe to our newsletter (what you are reading right now). We publish the newsletter “about” once a month, but never more often than that, so it is fair to say the newsletter is “low-traffic”.
OR
-If you want to hear from us sometimes a little more often, subscribe to receive an email each time we post an article on www.harrimanhikers.org via our Feedburner feed. Enter your email in the box in the middle of the block.
Unsubscribing is just as simple… and no, we dont share our email list with 3rd parties.
– If you are an RSS newsreader user and you want to subscribe to our RSS feeds there are two feeds available:
Our News Feed
Our Blog Feed

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[b]Harriman Hikers Blog[/b] allows us to note and write about different bits of info we occasionally stumble upon (or even look for) on the internet that is related, not so much to Harriman Hikers directly, but more to singles/outdoors in a larger, broader sense.If you are someone who spends a considerable amount of time on the internet reading outdoors and/or singles items and would like to share what you find as well as some of your thoughts, there is a good possibility we would love to have you blog with us. Please contact us if this is something that interests you. If we seem like a good fit for each other we’ll be happy to set you up an author account on our blog.
We use WordPress, so you dont need a computer sciences degree to be a blogger; in fact WordPress is about as user-friendly as blog software comes. Blogging is similar to, and about as complicated as sending an email message.

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[b]Photo Galleries![/b] [b]Last Uploads + more to come- stay tuned![/b]

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We anticipate finding out about lots of additional activities during the course of the year. We include announcements about events we like think the group might like in our newsletter and on the homepage of our website. If you have an appropriate event you would like to publicize (i.e. outdoors and singles related or of other probable interest to our group) let us know *at least* 1.5 months in advance and give us all the details and we will consider helping you publicize it. Often the best thing to do initially is to casually and pleasantly “float” your idea to the group on the hike and feel out level of interest.

Here are the ground rules:

- Commercial interests ARE NOT WELCOME.
- We may publicize, (or decline to publicize) any event for any reason, at our sole discretion.
- Email event announcements are made as part of our regular newsletter. We do not make special email announcements for additional events, i.e. neccesary cancellations or changes to events we have agreed to help promote will be posted on our website; we do not make special email announcements regarding additional events.
- We will only consider an event announcement for inclusion in our newsletter if there is at least a 1.5 month lead time and advance notice. Longer is better.
- We can make announcements on our website, but please don’t expect them to appear immediately. All efforts on our part are voluntary and unfortunately, often, other aspects of life, i.e. making a living or other personal matters interfere with our Harriman Hikers fun.
- Please dont ask us to make an announcement on our website, especially on short notice and expect that announcement to drive participation in in your event. We should be considered a part and not the whole of the promotional campaign of your event.
- We generally do not publicize or promote additional events occurring on a Sunday as that is our regular hiking day.

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Wishing all a happy and healthful March 2007,
Harriman Hikers
A New York – New Jersey Singles Hiking Club. Since 1974.

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January 2007: Happy New Year to Harriman Hikers; old friends and those people who have only just now found us on the internet!

Your webmaster and general-purpose hike cheerleader, Rich and the Harriman Hikers Hike Leaders, Ed and Greg have taken a temporary sabbatical for now from our regular monthly email newsletter to rest up from all the holiday swirl of social activities, enjoy some personal time and reflect on the coming year.

None of this will affect our regular Sunday hikes, which will continue as usual, every Sunday as they have for over 30 years. We’ll be at Parking Lot B-1, South Lots, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ 07430 each and every Sunday at 11:30, rain or shine itchin’ to hike and waitin’ for you to join us!

Greg and Ed are busy cooking up new hike routes for our fitness enjoyment during the coming year- dont miss a thing in 2007!

Ed plans to continue his once-a-month Saturday extra hikes (Ed’s January additional hike was on New Year’s Day)-

Stay tuned here on the Harriman Hikers website and join our email newsletter list by registering for news of other additional group activities coordinated by various members and friends of the group as well as occasional general and environmental news of interest to the outdoors and singles communities at-large.

In the coming weeks we hope to update the online photo album backlog of hiking pictures dating back to last summer. We’d like to thank every one who has graciously shared their photos from the hikes and reassure you that your efforts do not go unappreciated. Keep an eye on our photo albums for updates. If you have photos from our hikes you would like to share please attach them to an email and drop them to us at harrimanhikers@gmail.com or, better yet, upload them to your own online photo album and send us the url.

We hope that if you have only just discovered our group and are looking for an opportunity to get out the house into the great outdoors and make friends with other outdoor-minded singles that you will make some time on a Sunday soon and join us for an afternoon of hiking and fellowship in the closer-to-home-than-you-might-think wilderness wonderlands of the State Parks and Preserves of the southern Hudson Valley of New York State and northern New Jersey with their pristine woods, hills, valleys, lakes, rivers and vistas just waiting for you to savor for yourself.

As I sit at my computer and write on this Saturday afternoon in January, 2007, the weather outside is akin to springtime (shall we thank global warming for this?). The windows are thrown open, the sky is blue- it is, for all intents and purposes, a glorious day! The weather forecast for tomorrow is for a sunny day with highs in the 50′s- what better opportunity to spend a day outdoors!

We hope you will join us!

Ciao fer now-

Harriman Hikers
A New York – New Jersey Singles Hiking Club
Established 1974

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Season’s Greetings to all:

Harriman Hikers is a New York-New Jersey singles hiking club. We meet every Sunday for hiking, rain or shine at 11:30 am at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah, NJ in Parking Lot B-1 South. Complete details on our website, www.harrimanhikers.org

When we say we hike EVERY Sunday, we mean*EVERY* Sunday, just as we have for over 30 years!

Our Annual Sunday after Thanksgiving Hike/Feast was once again a BIG SUCCESS! We were very fortunate to have a simply gorgeous day on Sunday, Nov 26th, 2006 for the Annual Sunday after Thanksgiving Hike/Feast!

As is customary we made sure we got a group photo- see it on our homepage www.harrimanhikers.org. Eventually (along with the current backlog of hiking photos that need to get uploaded) we will add some photos from the Thanksgiving Hike to our photo gallery.

Dont be a shut-in this winter! Cold weather should not hamper you from getting out to stay fit, enjoying ALL of nature’s seasons, meeting new people- and being comfortably warm and dry doing it. Please have a read over our Harriman Hikers Guide to Winter and Cold Weather Hiking and join us in the great outdoors this winter!

In December, there are several events in addition to our regular Sunday hikes, planned privately by members and friends of Harriman Hikers, that may be of interest to you:

HIKER-BIKER-SKIER CHRISTMAS HIKE AND HOLIDAY DINNER SAT DEC 9TH

CASUAL APRES-HIKE HOLIDAY GET TOGETHER AT MBG SUN DEC 17TH

SATURDAY HIKE DEC 23RD LED BY ED BURDZY

STEP INTO 2007 HIKE MON JAN 1ST 2007 LED BY ED BURDZY

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HIKER-BIKER-SKIER CHRISTMAS HIKE AND HOLIDAY DINNER SAT DEC 9TH
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The following event is in addition-to and does not replace or affect Harriman Hikers regular Sunday Hike.

Harriman Hikers meets every Sunday for hiking, rain or shine, year-round, as we have for over 30 years.

The following event is coordinated privately by Carol Richards and Rich Hobbs

Please see this event’s invitation info page for further details.

! –> EVENTS ARE SEPERATE & OPTIONAL- DO ONE OR DO ‘EM ALL.

! –> ($)= COST IS INVOLVED.

! –> USE LINKS FOR ADDL INFO AND/OR DIRECTIONS.

10a-2p: ($) ICE
SKATING & CAROUSEL
at BEAR MTN ST PK.
Directions & InfoHERE.
NOTE: Bear Mtn St Pk Parking Fee= $6/ car.

2p-5p: FREE CHRISTMAS HIKE led by Bob Gawel. (3 miles total w/ 1 break & stops at historic points) from Bear Mtn St Park to historic Doodletown, NY. OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS CAROLS BY CANDLE LIGHT on the trail! Bring beverages and snacks to share!
MEETUP: Doubletree Hotel rear pkg lot btwn 12:30 and 1:00p OR 2p at the Bear Mtn St Pk Carousel/ Ice Rink
(back pkg lot)
NOTE: Bear Mtn St Pk Parking Fee= $6/ car.

($) COCKTAILS/ HORS D’OEUVRES FOLLOWED BY HOLIDAY BUFFET at RICHIE’S LITTLE PLACE!

COST: $25 PER PERSON PAID IN ADVANCE (includes hors
d’oeuvres, meal, dessert, coffee/ tea, tax & tip!)

5:30p-6:30p: COCKTAILS/ HORS D’OEUVRES (CASH BAR)

7p-9:30p: BUFFET DINNER
! –> LIVE ENTERTAINMENT ALL EVENING BY JOHN BARAGONE (DANCIN’ TOO!)

PAYMENT OPTIONS:
Pay online securely with PAYPAL

OR

Mail personal check payable to:
Carol Richards
PO Box 770
South Orange, NJ 07079

! –> PAYMENT MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN WED DEC 6, 2006

! –> LIMIT 60 GUESTS- 1ST COME BASIS

! –> WEATHER CANCELLATION ONLY- OTHERWISE NO REFUNDS. UNCASHED CHKS DESTROYED- NOT RETURNED.

! –> DO NOT DRINK & DRIVE

? hikingfun@gmail.com

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CASUAL APRES-HIKE HOLIDAY GET TOGETHER AT MBG SUN DEC 17TH
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Please stop by Mahwah Bar and Grill (MBG) around 5pm-ish (we’ll be there after we get back to the college from the hike) on Sunday Dec 17th, 2006 for a casual apres-hike holiday get together of refreshments, dinner and not leastly, good times with friends!

If you are new to our group, Mahwah Bar and Grill (MBG) is an unofficial, weekly, apres-hike gathering spot for a number of our members.
Attire: Casual (Santa hats and faux-reindeer antlers acceptable attire;-)
Cuisine: Tavern
Prices: Inexpensive to Moderate

Please expect to pay your own way with CASH and expect to tip well for
good service.

If you are planning on attending but cant come hiking on Sun Dec 16th please shoot us an email at harrimanhikers@gmail.com BEFORE Sunday (we’ll be out hiking all day and it is customary to turn celphones OFF during the hike) so we can give MBG a heads-up if our group is looking like it might be large.

Please expect to have a great time, but please NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE.

Season’s Greetings to all!

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SATURDAY HIKE DEC 23RD LED BY ED BURDZY
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The following hike is in addition-to and does not replace or affect Harriman Hikers regular Sunday Hike. Harriman Hikers meets every Sunday for hiking, rain or shine, year-round, as we have for over 30 years.

The following hike is coordinated privately by Harriman Hikers Hike Leader, Ed Burdzy. Please contact Ed by phone 973-471-0492 for questions or more info about this hike.

Ed Burdzy will lead a hike on Saturday, December 23rd 2006. Destination
to be determined by Ed, day of hike.

Meetup for Ed’s hike on Saturday, December 23rd 2006 is as usual for “Ed Hikes”, 10am in the south (public) end of the parking lot at the Mason Jar Restaurant on Route 202 in Mahwah, NJ.

Map

Hikers in good physical condition are welcome to join Ed’s hike. If you have hiked with the Harriman Hikers and can handle the usual 7-8 miles of hiking over hilly, rocky terrain in warm weather, then you are a likely candidate for Ed’s Saturday, December 23rd 2006 Hike. During cooler weather, but during daylight savings time, Ed’s hikes tend to be a bit more ambitious at times, but since we will be back on Eastern Standard Time in December, hours of daylight will dictate that Ed’s hike will be more akin in length to regular Harriman Hikers hikes of 7-8 miles.

Contact Ed Burdzy 973-471-0492 for questions and more info.

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STEP INTO 2007 HIKE MON JAN 1ST 2007 LED BY ED BURDZY
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Drag yer hung-over-New-Years-Day-self out from under that coffee table, put on the hiking boots and start working on a New Year Resolution: “Get more exersize and stay fit- go hiking!”:

The following hike is in addition-to and does not replace or affect Harriman Hikers regular Sunday Hike. Harriman Hikers meets every Sunday for hiking, rain or shine, year-round, as we have for over 30 years.

The following hike is coordinated privately by Harriman Hikers Hike Leader, Ed Burdzy. Please contact Ed by phone 973-471-0492 for questions or more info about this hike.

Ed Burdzy will lead a hike on Monday, Jan 1st, 2007. Destination to be determined by Ed, day of hike.

Meetup for Ed’s hike on Monday, Jan 1st, 2007 is as usual for “Ed Hikes”, 10am in the south (public) end of the parking lot at the Mason Jar Restaurant on Route 202 in Mahwah, NJ. Map

Hikers in good physical condition are welcome to join Ed’s hike. If you have hiked with the Harriman Hikers and can handle the usual 7-8 miles of hiking over hilly, rocky terrain in warm weather, then you are a likely candidate for Ed’s Monday, Jan 1st, 2007 Hike. During cooler weather, but during daylight savings time, Ed’s hikes tend to be a bit more ambitious at times, but since we will be back on Eastern Standard Time in December, hours of daylight will dictate that Ed’s hike will be more
akin in length to regular Harriman Hikers hikes of 7-8 miles.

Contact Ed Burdzy 973-471-0492 for questions and more info.

If you received this email accidently, or if there is any reason you do not wish to receive email from Harriman Hikers, please let us know by emailing us harrimanhikers@gmail.com
and we will remove you from our mailing address immediately.

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Hikers
A New York- New Jersey Singles Hiking Club Established 1974

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