Fri, Oct 11 - Mon, Oct 14: Columbus Day Weekend in the High Peaks The Long Island chapter invites all ADK members to join them for their 42nd annual Columbus Day weekend based at Adirondack Loj. Details: www.adkli.org/outing/42nd-annual-columbus-day-weekend-in-the-adirondack-high-peaks/.

Sat, Oct 19: Hitchens Pond Walk We’ll start just west of Horsehoe Lake, which lies south of Tupper Lake, onto a gated old road that winds through marsh and forest for 2.4 miles to Hitchens Pond, where once A. A. Low ran his maple sugar, spring water, and logging empire. After lunch, we’ll return the same way. Little elevation change. Bad weather day on Sunday. A joint outing with North Woods chapter. Contact by Thursday for meeting time and place: John and Susan Omohundro, adknwoutings@gmail.com.

Sun, Oct 20: Bike Hopkinton - Lake Ozonia - St Regis Falls Bike ride from Hopkinton to St. Regis Falls via Lake Ozonia, and then back to Hopkinton on the Port Kent Road. 25 miles, level 3. Contact Tom Ortmeyer tortmeye@gmail.com, 315-244-3707.

Sat, Oct 26 - Sun, Oct 27: Stone Valley Trail Maintenance Weekend Join Mark Simon, coordinator of the Stone Valley Trail, and many students and other supporters in a work blitz to maintain and upgrade trails in our region. Projects range from difficult and technical to easy. Areas that have been featured in the past include Stone Valley Trail System, Red Sandstone Trail, Azure Mountain, and the climbing site at Snow Bowl State Forest. Contact Mark Simon at 315-261-8644 or simonm@potsdam.edu.

More Laurentian Chapter events

All-Club Outing Calendar listing all outings from all chapters. If our chapter isn’t going there soon, another chapter may be.

Charleston Lake Provincial Park (October 5, 2019)
A good-sized group enjoyed the trails of this park north of the Thousand Islands Bridge. The three l ...

Big Pine and Lost Pond Loop (September 7, 2019)
The forecast was cloudy then rain, so we opted for an early start. The hike to the "big pine" was pl ...

East Branch St Regis River Paddle (August 24, 2019)
This paddle is not often on the chapter schedule, so it was new to some in the party. It enjoys rela ...

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