I was at Mount van Hoevenberg for two days for the final UCI mountain bike World Cup weekend. I didn’t make it over to Whiteface for the downhill races. On Friday, I was a volunteer, and on Saturday, I returned as a spectator.
Why volunteer at ORDA events? It can be fun, and every day that you volunteer, you get a voucher that’s good at any of the ORDA venues.
When my kiddo visits from NJ, there will be free trail passes at the Ho. Same thing if a friend visits and wants to go to Whiteface.
The air has started to turn crispy in upstate New York and the dog days of summer are now in the rear view. Farah and I weren’t quite ready to let the summer go yet and have been squeezing the last bit of juice out of the warmer days.
We’ve spent a lot of time in the Finger Lakes over the last few months, neglecting our beloved Adirondacks. As a result Old Forge was square in our sites last Saturday for the last official paddle of the summer.
Old Forge was bustling when we drove down Main Street around 10am. The leaf peepers and fall aficionados were out in full force combined with the crowd of firefighters and their families who attended the weekend drill school.
The Roster is FULL. 50 lopper hounds, we are at our max. Thanks everyone!
Plattekill Mountain and NYSkiBlog are stoked to present the 16th Annual Plattekill Tree Skiing Work Day at the ski area in Roxbury NY on Saturday October 24th, 2026. Rain date is 10/25/26.
The tradition — imagined in the mind of dedicated NY skier— lives on. We’re recruiting 50 motivated, smiling lopper wielding powder hounds to continue our maintenance and expansion of some of the Catskills’ best tree skiing.
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