Main Meeting place for start of
hikes: Parking lot southwest corner of Market & Pershing at the Capital Telecommunications Inc. (CTI) parking lot at the rear of
200 W. Market St. MAP!
(We have 5
parking lots that are used to start hikes from)
Please send all newsletter
(six months nonrenewable) requests with a check for $3.00 made payable to:
Email for full info. To yorkhikingclub@email.com
A sheet is handed out to all New hikers at the parking lots before the hikes. If you want to join after 30 miles in one year
period or requested equivalent, a invitation to join is entered to run the process.
JUNE
2005
Chairperson:
Rich
Burrill - 717 - 225 - 9002
(Please
make telephone calls before 9PM.)
yorkhikingclub@email.com
Blue links below take you to a map
page!
Parking
For the Club! Five
Lots Click
Fee
for a hike is only if one Carpools.
June 4 - Saturday Short Hike - Hiking today in a new part of Rocky
Ridge I just discovered in April. Hopefully it will be an enjoyable two
hours or five miles. Some short hilly parts, but very pretty trail,
therefore, wear comfortable hiking shoes and maybe bring along a hiking stick.
We will meet at Bon-Ton
Distribution Center on Mt. Zion Rd. At 2:30 PM,
then proceed to High Rock Rd. No car pool fee. Hike leader: Barb
Furman, 848-4460.
June 4,5 A. T. Work Trip - This is our annual major work trip clearing
brush back from the trail. Both easy and hard work available, from
lopping work to running a weed whacker. Meet at North
End meeting place next to Rutter's Store,
North George St. at 8:30 each day. Bring work gloves, boots, daypack
with food and water. No hike fee. Contact Jim Hooper, 252-3784.
People planning to come Sunday should call Jim to check on what was
accomplished on Saturday.
June 12 - Short Hike/Picnic - Join us for an afternoon at the farm or
on a short hike with George, followed by a soup & ice cream with
strawberries picnic. Meet at the downtown parking lot 200
W. Market St. MAP!
at 1:30 to car pool, or call 717-292-4035 for directions. Leaders Casey
and George Schneider.
June 12 - Long Hike - NOTE- The AT weekend hike scheduled for this
weekend has been cancelled and will be combined with the weekend trip in
September. Today's hike will be about 12 miles (with an option for 8.6
miles) on the Tuscarora Trail and side trails fromCowpen Rd. In Tuscarora
State Forest to Colonel Denning State Park. This is mostly a ridgetop
hike on the crest of Blue Mountain with a gradual downhill trend most of the
way & a steeper downhill of nearly 1,000 feet at the end. The
ridgetop is rough & rocky. Bring plenty of water, lunch, & good
boots. We will leave the West End meeting place (Adams
Electric)
at 8:00 a.m. Hike fee $6.00, leader is Jim
McCoy, 852-7570.
June 19 - Medium Hike - Nine miles Gettysburg Battlefield. Due to
a snowstorm, we cancelled this hike in January, so we will try again.
Relive the battle of Gettysburg by hiking the battlefield. Bring water,
lunch, and boots. Meet at Adams
Electric
at 8:30 a.m. Leaders Linda & Jim Beam. Fee $2.50.
Telephone: 717-764-1091.
June
25 - Saturday Short Hike - In the Muddy Creek area near Laurel,
Brogueville, etc. Gradual ups and downs for about 5 miles on dirt and
paved roads. Meet at 1:30 p.m. at South meeting place Vo-Tech
(York
County Tech). Hike fee $1.50. Leader: John Seville.
June 26 - AT
Work Trip - The
priority of this trip will be to finish the blue blazed side trail. Meet
at North
End meeting place next to Rutter's Store,
North George St., at 8:30 each day. Bring work gloves, boots, daypack
with food and water. No hike fee. Contact Jim Hooper.
Announcements:
Jim McCoy needs hike leaders for July as follows:
July 10 - short and long hike; July 16 - Saturday short hike; July 24 - short
hike. Please contact Jim at 852-7570 to lead any hike.
In the April newsletter we announced a program to email
newsletters to members with email to save money postage costs. So
far only 5 people have signed up, saving us a grand total of $1.85 per month.
Since we have been operating in the red the last couple of years, it would
help us a lot to eliminate as much postage as possible. There are many
people in the club who use email. Please send your email address to
Bernie Frick at bernard.frick@verizon.net
to sign up for electronic newsletters.
At the board meeting on April 25, the website committee presented their
redesign of our website (www.yorkhikingclub.com). It was approved by the
board & will be implemented within the next several months for everyone to
check out. We would like to thank the website committee (Lou & Sarah
Tateosian, Jim Trautman, Gwen Loose and Bernie Frick) for an excellent job.
Their efforts required a lot of work, which we all will appreciate when the
revised site is up and running. Also approved by the board was the
inclusion of phone numbers (but not email addresses) in the newsletter posted
on the website. Any hike leaders not wishing to have their phone numbers
posted on the website will need to notify their activities committee
chairperson for that month to have their number removed.
We welcome into membership:
William Anderson, Felton, PA
David Points, Dover, PA
The following people have hiked the required mileage and will be invited to
join the club, if there are no objections within ten days:
Joan Fitzpatrick, Wrightsville, PA
Skip Newcomer, Lancaster, PA
BE COOL! -
Sport a York Hiking Club license plate on your
car. Cost $5. Contact Tim S. yorkhikingclub@email.com
and ask for details.
APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONFERENCE BIENNIAL
MEETING- July 1-8 at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City,
Tennessee. For details, check out
www.appalachiantrail.org or
southernhighlands2005.org Great
fun-Great hikes!
