Tag Archives: Hudson Highlands

Hudson Gorge Panorama: Hiking Breakneck Ridge

Posted on May 9, 2012 by admin

(Here’s an expanded version of “Hudson Gorge Panorama: Hiking Breakneck Ridge,” the cover story for the July/August 2011 issue of Adirondac, published by the Adirondack Mountain Club.) Twenty years ago, when I lived on East 47th Street in a six … Continue reading →

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The Beacon Mountain Poem

Posted on February 20, 2012 by admin

Long before I grew enamored with Beacon as NoBro (North Brooklyn) with its gentrifying main street of art galleries and funky coffee houses clustered in restored brick buildings at both ends, I encountered it as a prison town. (“Be-A-Con,” a … Continue reading →

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“The Slow Walker” Has Time to See Nature

Posted on December 27, 2011 by admin

The truth is that few hikes offer what you could honestly call an adventure. The dangers and challenges that you overcome as you clamber up rocks or snowshoe down hillsides are ones that you and countless others have handled many … Continue reading →

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“From Bread Loaf to Sugarloaf” by Jo Pitkin

Posted on September 30, 2011 by admin

(My thanks to Jo Pitkin for this guest blog. And let me recommend her wonderful chapbook, The Measure.) In 1977, summer jobs for college kids were scarce in my Hudson Valley hometown. In previous years, I had been an arts … Continue reading →

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That City/Country High

Posted on February 21, 2011 by admin

From the late 1980s well into the 1990s, I led a bifurcated life: my career, my marriage, and my social life anchored in Hoboken, then Manhattan; my romantic spirit given to weekend day hikes in the Hudson Highlands reached by … Continue reading →

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