With the usual winter ADK trips off the table this year, many of us were looking for a novel loop closer to home. Brian suggested Michael’s Green Ridge State Forest trip that had not been repeated since it was first hiked by DCUL in 2013. Karan, Evan, & I were game. So were lots of... Continue Reading →

Leading up to this trip, it seemed like everything was conspiring to make it not happen: the snowpack at 4000’ turned this into a snowshoes-required trip rather than an intro to winter backpacking; Kyle got injured and had to back out; the incoming storm threatened our ability to drive out from the trailhead Sunday morning;... Continue Reading →

A total of five DCULers answered the last minute “invitation” to backpack Duncan and Strickler Knob this weekend. The seven of us (Karan, Ram, Liz, Dmitri, Kevin, Ben and I) convened at the Route 211 parking lot on Saturday morning. We were able to make a timely start at 10am. It was a beautiful day-... Continue Reading →

When we pick a weekend for a backpacking trip, we circle a date and hope for the best. For a December trip, that hope is for enough snow to make things gorgeous but not so much that we fear road conditions and the necessitation of snow shoes (unless of course we're planning a deep snow... Continue Reading →