Mar 11, 2014
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...
Feb 27, 2014
Seized with the urge to hike to the top of something, and with the weather moody and mercurial, I thought I’d jog up Anthony’s Nose this afternoon. Good plan. It didn’t take ten minutes to realize this was a hike I’d have to foresake due to...
Feb 19, 2014
This Year, I’m Getting the Permit. Harriman State Park is large enough to embody the notion of two types of park: an idyll, a place where one goes to escape the city and especially other people, and a place that draws from one of the largest urban areas in the...
Jan 25, 2014
Raymond Torrey’s Description of a Trail Built to Last I woke up this morning thinking it would be easy to throw the dogs in the car and do a five-mile trek through Harriman State Park. And then I woke up again, this time from the dream I had of springtime, and...
