Barry,
Thanks for sharing. The Catskills are a treasure, both as a scenic resource and culturally. The ugly side of Catskill history is the rampant abuse they suffered by timber barons and the tanning industry. They are still recovering from those abuses. However, the upper elevations of the Catskills have little in the way of commercial forests and consequently present as with a fairly intact ecosystem. There is also the cultural history that embraces the great hotels of the Catskills and the Hudson River School of artists. I love the Catskills. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Caselli" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:17:24 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: Catskills Another enjoyable report with great pictures. I visited the Catskills twice. Both times were on weekend retreats with people from the church I was attending at the time. I believe this was during the late 1980s. We stayed at an inn called Winter Clove Inn. It was near a town or village called Round Top, NY, named for a mountain called Round Top. During one of the times I was there I decided to hike the trail up the mountain behind the Inn. I have no idea if that mountain was Round Top itself. Somewhere I have the photos I took while hiking up. No one was interested in hiking, so I hiked by myself. I kept going, and going. When I finally reached the very end of the trail I decided to just keep going, and get to the top of the mountain. On the very top of the mountain there was a small plane that had crashed there, and it was laying upside down. Sometime in the late 1990s I was able to look up the registration number on it and come up with all the details of the flight and subsequent crash. Anyway, somewhere I have photos of the mountains taken from part way up and from on the top. I also have photos of some clubmosses on the mountain, and of course the upside down plane. The only scans I have right now are of the inn itself and of the covered footbridge that I had to cross at the beginning of the trail. The first photo of the inn was taken sometime soon after we arrived. The second photo of the inn, the one with the snow, was taken the morning we were due to leave. It was snowing when we got up that morning. I hope you like the photos. I didn't photograph any trees specifically, but as I say, I did photograph the mountain scenery. I just need to dig out all those photos and scan them. Okay I just found the scans of the mountain photos and the plane, but they are small and not that great. So I need to re-scan them. Hope you enjoy the ones I've attached here. Barry --- On Tue, 7/14/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Catskills To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 1:58 PM Hi Everyone, Well, it is time for some images closer to home. The 6 attached images were taken on the hike Monica and I did on Sunday. The hike officially ended our vacation. The location of the images is the Catskill Park in New York. Our specific destination was the summit of Plateau Mountain. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
