Indy Pass adds Buffalo Ski Club and Dry Hill

Posted on by NYSkiBlog

GRANBY, COLORADO – Indy Pass announced today that 43 new resorts have signed on for the 2025/2026 season. Two of those new additions — Buffalo Ski Club and Dry Hill — are in New York, bringing the state’s total Indy member tally to sixteen, surpassing Michigan as the state with the most Indy members in the nation.

In total, 15 resorts were added in the US include Burke Mountain Resort in Vermont and Tenney and McIntyre Ski Area in New Hampshire. In Canada 11 resorts were added to the collection including Mont Sutton, Owl’s Head and Val D’Irene in Quebec. In Europe 13 resorts were added.

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Hook Mountain and the Long Path

Posted on by Brownski

Hook Mountain State Park, together with the adjacent Nyack Beach, Rockland Lake and Haverstraw Beach State Parks, is one of my go-to local recreation spots. The Mountain itself is about 700 feet tall and part of the Palisades, a string of cliffs along the western shore of the Hudson River that begin further south in New Jersey.

The Hudson River from Nyack Beach State Park

In the past I have used it more as a spot to launch my kayak into the Hudson or to ride my bike but this year I decided to spend more time hiking there instead, as a way to improve my endurance and overall fitness — sort of a challenge to step it up a bit.

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Camp Pine Knot: Into the Wayback Machine

Posted on by Peter Minde

I visited my grandfather in Warrensburg, one day, many years ago. We looked at an ancient photo album. At the turn of the last century, his parents were caretakers at an Adirondack great camp.

Raquette Lake

While he couldn’t remember the name of the camp, he recalled a floating, screened gazebo, complete with grand piano.

The lady of the house used it to escape black flies, floating into the middle of the lake. Camp workers would tow her back in to shore, in the evening.

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