The Roster is FULL. 50 lopper hounds, we are at our max. Thanks everyone!
Plattekill Mountain and NYSkiBlog are stoked to present the 15th Annual Plattekill Tree Skiing Work Day at the ski area in Roxbury NY on Saturday October 25th, 2025. Rain date is 10/26/25.
The tradition — imagined in the mind of dedicated NY skier— lives on. We’re recruiting 50 motivated, smiling crew of lopper wielding powder hounds to continue our maintenance and expansion of some of the Catskills’ best tree skiing.
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.
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.
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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