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| A Couple of Words About The Club
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| We, as a Hiking Club, are getting older. As individuals, we too are getting older, alas, but that is a different story. When we started, our outings happened only on Sundays, and we never dreamed that we would be flying, hiking, and volunteering all over the country!
So far, we've been to Utah - twice, Washington (not D.C.!) and Oregon, and Idaho. We've accumulated memories we ourselves cannot sometimes believe. We've camped out in the wilderness of Utah deserts and Mt. Rainier National Park, Oregon dunes and Idaho National forests. We've done it in the pouring rain, freezing temperatures at night and oven like heat in the daytime. Once, driving through Utah, we stepped on snow and later on that day almost got sunburned - in the same state! At times, our tents got soaking wet and nearly blown away by the wind - Washington State, on two consecutive summers. We've swum in the cold White River and in even colder Ann Lake. We've day hiked and backpacked; we've volunteered working on the trails with American Hiking Society for several seasons now. We've worn hard hats and worked with a Pulaski.
Once, by Placid Lake, we just missed Big Foot (!) and another time lying in tents, we heard both coyotes and wolves! Often, when the night would catch us on the road, we'd spread our sleeping bags and fall asleep under the stars. That happened in New Mexico by a sanctuary in Reserve where we met most extraordinary people - Wolf and his wife Loba who live in a strikingly beautiful canyon and where the river crosses the canyon seven times. We've seen the snow capped mountains of Washington State and the red rocks of New Mexico and Utah; we've fed blue jays from our hands and caught a fish in a fishless lake. We've picked berries and mushrooms; we've seen the sunsets we didn't have the words to describe.
We've met amazing people, both park rangers and just strangers who'd give us a map when we were clueless…
We've been joined by a terrific new leader, Lee Majmin, a teacher, who hardly misses a hike on Sundays and who cannot wait to repeat the Utah journey.
Our VIP members are college students, and before either we or they know, they will be college graduates… Our youngest members are freshmen who when cutting classes, still don't miss a hike!
On Sundays, we still travel by Metro North, and after meeting Nava Simon from Humanities H.S. we learned we're not the only High School Hiking Club in New York! Still, we'd like to think we're a most adventurous Club!
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