Hike To Anthony’s Nose: Choose the South-Facing Slope. With the warmer weather, winter is loosening its grip on Harriman State Park, and every day the streams and rills are a little faster and wider, and the ice on the trails is giving way to mud, especially...
Hiking Harriman’s Hemlock Woods Eyes tired of the winter: of blackening snow at the edge of the parkway, of tawny fields, the rattling nakedness of the upland hardwood forest in winter. Grey-brown, all around. Lately, I’m looking for the green cover of...
Bears Walking Around in the Snow? Never! (But, Sometimes.) Last week I called the DEC to get information about the need to use a bear canister while camping in Harriman State Park in the winter. The official word was that bear canisters don’t need to be used...