End of the Year

I might be feeling quite fairly sick again from COVID which isn’t exactly how I expected the year to end, but I did feel well enough to go for a walk and sit up for a few hours after sleeping much of the day, achy with a very dry and tight throat. At least I’m not as dizzy or quite as exhausted as I was on Christmas. Either I’ll finally overcome COVID or I’ll have to go to the doctor on Thursday. I’m not going to make it to midnight awake.

But beyond that and all the various bellyaching of the year it was actually a fun year, got to visit some great places. Not everything went to plan, including my final trip of the year being canceled but it was a great year in many ways – investments grew, I got closer to many different goals, learned a lot of new skills. Some things are left uncompleted but just because something is accomplished in one year that it’s not a goal or won’t happen in the future. Often things get scuttled but if you continue to make progress they are not forever lost. At the end of the day 25 out of town trips I can remember, doesn’t include things like riding out to Altamont or the Pine Bush or various other rail trails around locally or the nature bus.

• January 13-15 – Rensselearville State Forest
• February 2-3 – Rennselaerville State Forest
• March 16 – Baatekill State Forest, Old Bennington Battlefield (Day Trip)
• March 28-31 – East Branch Scanadaga River
• April 20-21 – Rensselearville State Forset
• May 17-19 – Burnt Rossman Hills and Catskill Scenic Trail
• May 24-27 – Green Mountain National Forest
• June 1-2 – Cole Hill State Forest – Cole Hill bike camping
• June 15-16 – Cotton Hill Hammock Camping and Hike Down to Middelburgh Cliffs
• June 18-23 – Old NY 8B (Scanadaga River), Speculator, Piseco-Powley
• July 3-7 – Piseco-Powley, Celebrating Independence and riding the Canalway
• July 12-14 – Burnt Rossman Hills
• July 20-21 – Cole Hill State Forest
• July 26-August 4 – Finger Lakes – Pennsylvania Pine Creek
• August 10-11 – Cole Hill State Forest – Irish Hill Hammock Camping and Game Farm Preserve hike
• August 23-25 – Piseco-Powley, Floating Down the River
• August 30 – Sept 2 – Perkins Clearing and Speculator Tree Farm
• September 13-15 – Rensselearville State Forest
• September 20-23 – Green Mountain National Forest
• September 26-30 – Perkins Clearing, Indian River Tract and Pillsbury Mountain
• October 4-6 – Rensselearville State Forest
• October 18-21 – Charles Baker, Nine Mile Swamp, Glimmerglass
• November 7-11 – Stoney Pond, Erie Canalway (Dewitt), Charles Baker
• November 30-Dec 2 – East Branch, Siamease Ponds
• December 21-23 – Rensselearville State Forest