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Steve Kent, right, outlines the trek to come for participants in the five-mile annual winter hike at the Robert V. Riddell State Park near Colliersville.
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4th Annual Choir Festival
“An Evening of A Cappella” To Benefit The Cooperstown Food Pantry Saturday, January 26th • 7:30PM Hear the best area a cappella groups from local colleges, high schools and our community while you support the Cooperstown Food Pantry. Limited Seating! Tickets only available at the door (Cash or check only.) Adults: $10.00 • Students: $5.00 Children (4 & under): Free.
You, Too, May Enjoy Snowshoeing! HIKE/From B1 going to do. Ian strapped me into a pair of snowshoes he found in the garage and I stubbornly ambled onto the trail. “My first experience with snowshoes was a moonlight walk from here to Pine Lake,” said Steve. “I made it about half a mile and walked the rest of the way in a foot and a half of snow – that was easier for me.” Within 100 feet, I hurt from my toes all the way up to the middle of my back. I lumbered like Godzilla stomping Tokyo, far enough behind the group that I started to feel lonely. But my steps began to pick up, and I even tried a quick jog in Allie’s honor. I got a nice gait going, but I couldn’t imagine doing a 5K. “My dad bought me snowshoes the first year we lived in Oneonta,” said Ashley Camarata. “It was intense – we went all the way up to SUNY Oneonta,
about three miles. I slept for four hours afterwards.” Our first stop was a 200year-old broken pine tree, “Alton B. Riddell” – Trish’s grandfather – “said from the time he was little, this tree never seemed to get any bigger as he grew,” Steve recounted. “I don’t believe in coincidence, because a month after he died in March 1995, that tree fell.” About two miles in, the trail got rocky, with wide muddy streams to forge. A stick got caught in my snowshoes and I almost fell over trying to dislodge it. With very little snow and mostly ice left on the trail, I had no choice but to abandon my snowshoes against a tree and come back for them later. But with plenty of winter left, there’s still time for “ideal” snowshoe conditions. According to Harry Peplinski, owner of the Mount Otsego Ski Shop
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in Cooperstown, the best snowshoe conditions are a hard-packed base with three to six inches of powder on top. “It’s not much fun plowing through fresh-fallen snow,” he said. “It sounds nice, but it’s pure drudgery.” The Mount Otsego Ski Shop rents snowshoes for $15 a day. “Any place you can cross-country ski, you can snowshoe,” said Peplinski. “And it’s best to snowshoe where other people have already been.” In addition to state parks such as Robert V. Riddell, Betty and Wilbur Davis in Westford and Glimmerglass, Peplinski said state forest land and local dirt roads offer good snowshoe hikes. “You can drive up as far the roads are plowed, park, and walk from there,” he said. I might not ever compete in a snowshoe 5K, but with the basics under my belt, I’m “thinking snow” and planning my next trail hike.
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Single Tickets on Sale January 28 online at midnight www.glimmerglass.org
by phone at 10:00 a.m.
(607) 547-2255
2013 Glimmerglass Festival single tickets and all special event tickets go on sale Monday! Special events include the return of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an expanded program following her sold-out 2012 appearance; numerous ShowTalk lectures and Meet Me at the Pavilion performances; and concerts from Julie and Nathan Gunn, Christine Goerke and Eric Owens.
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THE FLYING DUTCHMAN For more information call Meg Kiernan at (607) 544-2562 or email MKiernan@Otesaga.com. JOIN US FOR DINNER & RESERVE YOUR FESTIVAL SEATS TOO! The Otesaga’s Hawkeye Grill serves dinner from 5:30PM – 9:00PM. Over 100 Years of Gracious Hospitality ® THE OTESAGA RESORT HOTEL 60 LAKE STREET, COOPERSTOWN, NY 13326 • OTESAGA.COM
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