Tuesday December 21, advanced
Meet - 8:00 AM
Kaaterskill High Peak (3655')*
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 9.5 miles, 6.0 hours, strenuous
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-7158

Monday January 3, advanced
Meet - 8:00 AM
Thomas Cole/Backdome/Blackhead Mountains (3940'/3980'/3940')
Ascent is 2760'
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 7.5 miles, 7.0 hours, strenuous
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-1823

Monday January 3, intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Mount Everett (2602') and Guilder Pond in the Taconics
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 4.5 miles, 4.0 hours, moderate
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-4145

Monday January 10, intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Black Dome Mountain (3980’), Ascent 1700’
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 4.7 miles, 5.0 hours, strenuous
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-7616

Wednesday January 12, novice
Meet - 10:00 Am
Phillips Road , Rte 212, Glasco Turnpike (Town of Saugerties)
Distance: 5.0 miles, 5.0 hours, easy walk
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-6208

Monday January 17, advanced
Meet - 8:00 AM
Wittenberg (3780’) and Cornell (3906’) Mountains
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 9.0 miles, 7.0 hours, strenuous
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-7987

Monday January 17, intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Minnewaska State Park (Trapps Trailhead to Millbrook Mountain)
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance 5.0 miles, 4.0 miles, moderate
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-6949

Saturday January 22, novice
Meet - 10:00 AM
Winter Clove County Road
Distance: 5.0 miles, 3.0 hours, easy walk
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-2945

Monday January 24, intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Big Indian Mountain (3700’)
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 10.0 miles, 6.5 hours, strenuous
For Further Info call: (845) 246-7616 or (845) 338-8772

Monday January 24, Bi-monthly Meeting
Meet - 7:00 PM
Atonement Lutheran Church, Saugerties, NY

Monday January 31, advanced
Meet - 8:00 AM
Plateau Mountain (3840’), Ascent 1700’
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 6.0 miles, 5.0 hours, strenuous
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-4040

Monday January 31, intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Thompson’s Lake to Thacher Park in the Helderbergs
Snowshoes Recommended
Distance: 6.0 miles, 4.0 hours, moderate
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-4145

Monday February 7, intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Big Indian (3700') from Biscuit Brook, Ascent 1700'
Snowshoes and crampons required
Distance 9.0 miles, 7.0 hours, strenuous
For Further Info Call: (845) 338-8772

Wednesday February 9, novice
Meet - 10:00 AM
Hudson Valley Rail Trail: Highland
Distance: 5.0 Miles, 3.0 Hours, easy walk
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-4590

Monday February 14, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Vanderbilt Mansion to FDR Estate, from
the Vanderbilt Parking Lot
Snowshoes may be necessary
Distance: 6.0 miles, 3.5 hours, easy+
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-4145

Monday February 14, Advanced
Meet - 8:00 AM
Friday (3694’) and possibly Balsam Cap (3623') Mountains, Ascent 3000'
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 7.5 Miles, 7.5 hours, strenuous
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-8616

Monday February 21, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Mount Utsayantha, from the Village of Stamford
Snowshoes Required
Distance: 4.0 miles, 4.0 hours, moderate
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-4145

Saturday February 26, Novice
Meet - 10:00 AM
Rte 209 (Leggett Road to Birdfeeder Store)
Distance: 4.0 miles, 3.0 hours, easy walk For Further Info Call: (845) 246-7174

Monday February 28, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Shaupeneak Ridge, from the Lower Lot
on Route 9W, near the firehouse
Snowshoes and crampons may be Necessary
Distance: 5.0 miles, 4.0 hours, moderate
For Further Info Call: (845) 338-8772

Monday February 28, Advanced
Meet - 8:00 AM
Big Indian (3700’) and Fir (3620’) Mountains, Ascent 2500'
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 10.0 miles, 7.0 hours, strenuous
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-4040

Monday March 7, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Slide Mountain (4180'), Ascent 1650, from County Rte 47
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 6.5 miles, 5.5 hours, moderate+
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-4145

Wednesday March 9, Novice
Meet - 10:00 AM
Esopus Bend Conservancy in Saugerties
Distance: 3.0 miles, 4.0, easy walk
For Further Info Call: (845) 247-0664

Monday March 14, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Huckleberry Point, from Platte Clove Road
Snowshoes may be Necessary
Distance: 4.8 miles, 3.5 hours, moderate
For Further Info Call: (845) 338-8772

Monday March 14, Advanced
Meet - 8:00 AM
Rusk Mountain (3680’), Ascent 1600'
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 5.0 miles, 5.0 hours, strenuous bushwhack
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-8546

Monday March 21, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Windham High Peak (3524'), from State Rte 23
Snowshoes and Crampons Required
Distance: 6.6 miles, 4.5 hours, moderate
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-7616

Saturday March 26, Novice
Meet - 10:00 AM
Tivoli to Clermont and return
Distance: 5.0 miles, 3.0 hours, easy walk
For Further Info Call: (845) 758-6143

Monday March 28, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve, Rensselaerville,
from the Parking Lot on State Rte 85
Snowshoes may be Necessary
Distance: 5.0 miles, 3.5 miles, easy
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-4145

Monday March 28, Advanced
Meet - 8:00 AM
Black Dome (3980’) and Thomas Cole Mountains (3940’), Ascent 2200'
Snowshoes and Crampons may be Necessary
Distance: 5.9 miles, 6.0 hours, strenuous
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-1823

Monday March 28, Bi-monthly Meeting
Meet - 7:00 PM
Atonement Lutheran Church, Saugerties, NY

Monday April 4, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Balsam Lake Mountain (3600'), Ascent 1600'
from Mill Brook Road
Snowshoes and Crampons may be Necessary
Distance: 5.5 miles, 5.0 hours, moderate+
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-7616

Monday April 18, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM in Saugerties and 8:20 AM at
the Mountainside on Rte 28
Terrace Mountain, Ascent 1600'
from the Woodland Valley Campground
Distance: 7.0 miles, 6.0 hours, moderate+
For Further Info Call: (845) 338-8772

Monday May 2, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Appalachian Trail from Mount Everett to Jug End Road
in southwest Massachusetts, from the Guilder
Pond Parking Lot
Distance: 5.0 miles, 3.5 hours, moderate
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-5670

Monday May 16, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM in Saugerties and 8:20 AM at
the Mountainside on Rte 28
Ashokan High Point (3080'), Ascent 2360' from
County Rte 42 (Peekamoose Road), 4 miles west of West Shokan
Distance: 8.5 miles, 7.0 hours, strenuous
For Further Info Call: (845) 338-8772

Monday May 30, Intermediate
Meet - 8:00 AM
Plotterkill Gorge Nature Preserve, Town of Rotterdam,
from the trailhead on Coplon Road (off Rte 159)
Distance: 5.0 miles, 3.5 hours, easy+
For Further Info Call: (845) 246-4145

Additional April/May hikes will be announced.

You may use the following link to download and print an MS Word format August/September schedule. This 'paper' schedule is issued via email to club members and handed out to those present at the bi-monthly club planning meetings.

The meeting place for 'all' hikes is at the rear of the Sawyer Savings Bank parking lot, 87 Market Street, Saugerties, NY.

Directions to the Sawyer Savings Bank: From I-87 (Exit 20), proceed east on route 212/32 approximately one mile to a fork in the road. Make a left onto Market Street at the fork. The bank will be on your immediate right, at 87 Market Street.

Click Here for a map of Saugerties. The red X represents the location of Sawyer Savings Bank.

For hikes to the Central/Western Catskills (areas accessible primarily via Route 28), it may be possible to meet the group at the rear of the Mountainside Restaurant parking lot, Route 28 and Maverick Road. This must be pre-arranged with the hike leader.

For Further Information on any of the above hikes call:

Bob Saturn, President, (845) 246-7158

or

Sally Colclough, Membership Chairman, (845) 246-2945

Hikes are divided into advanced, intermediate and novice levels.

* The figure given represents the elevation of the summit. The total ascent of the hike will be less.

Trail Maintenance = special maintenance hikes
(see Trail Maintenance in the Main Menu)

Rain Dates will be the following Monday for Monday
hikes, and the following Saturday for Saturday hikes.
There is no regular rain date for Wednesday hikes.

Hiking involves certain inherent hazards, and persons
participating do so at their own risk.

Free Counter