Gardeau Overlook 2
Three Nights Camping ๐
Most of the time recently I’ve been planning my trips around three-nights of camping. I find it is a happy middle ground for trips, as I can head up early on Friday or Saturday and stay until a Monday or Tuesday. Three nights has some distinct advantages:
- First off, for camping in NY State Forests it does not require a permit or any pre-planning of the trip.
- It provides two full days at camp, with the first day set up, second and third day for whatever around camp, and the forth day for take down and heading home
- Ice in all but the hottest weather in the coolers will survive four days if well packed with ice. In cooler weather, things are good without any worries at all.
- Four days is a reasonable amount of clothes and food to pack — not too much but it’s not like your packing for a day or two, having to take things down shortly after setting up.
- Makes the trip long enough to be worthwhile to drive a few hours to your destination.
Summit View from Moxham Mountain
Looking off the summit of Moxham Mountain in Minerva.
Harrisonburg
Veterans on the March
"Memorial Day โ a day originating in 1868 (Decoration Day), on which the gravesites of the Civil War dead were decorated with flowers โ has morphed into a day that conflates the memorialization of killed soldiers with the glorification of war. The perennial flag-waving, ultra-nationalist speeches, garish street parades and hyper-consumerism of Memorial Day do not honor these soldiers. What might, however, is working to prevent future war and nurture peace โ honoring their memory by not sending more men and women into harmโs way and to kill and maim in wars based on lies. To have any chance at being effective, however, this work must include efforts aimed at increasing public awareness about the many causes and costs of war."