WinterCampers.com

This is a good example of a pre-trip coordination email sent by Murphy’s Lake trip organizer Mark. It gives meeting times, coordinates travel, shelter and food groups, gives directions and trail mileage all with a dash of humor. Good Job, Mark!

Good morning WinterCampers!
Last evening I had a very nice conversation with the patriarch [...]

A year or so ago I received an email from WinterCampers.com member Skip with a long list of recipients. One of the names caught my eye - Jim Clayton. I knew a Jim Clayton in college at SUNY Oneonta. Jim and I lived in the same dorm and had similar “outdoorsy” interests. [...]

Janet Rice-Bredin reported in her blog of the 8th annual Deep Freeze winter camping expedition began this week in Sudbury, Canada. Every February, people from all over Ontario and some from New York State spend 8 days camping on a remote northern lake. They load their gear which is tied to sleds and toboggans onto [...]

Our WinterCampers.com website has been hosted by Yahoo for several years and maintained by Mark. However, as competing time demands have increased for Mark, coupled with increasing Yahoo fees we had to seek an alternative for the web site. We transferred the web site to Dreamhost and re-engineered the site using WordPress. [...]

From Adirondack Day Hikes: Pine Orchard by Barbara McMartin reprinted in Adirondack Sports and Fitness, June 2000.
“Pine Orchard Trail begins on private land in James Flater’s front yard leads to a knoll with an unusual history. A very old road that traversed the knoll dates back to the early nineteenth century. Parts of the forest [...]