Sports
County Group XC Championships
Bergen County 2011 High School Group Cross Country Running championships at Darlington County Park in Mahwah. As a runner in my past life I’d wanted to shoot cross country for sometime….arrived a bit late for the top boys race…Darlington is … Read more and see pictures
Cliffside Park at Ridgefield Park Girls Soccer
OK…2 mediocre teams but a beautiful new park and a beautiful day. Ridgefield Park dominated but Cliffside Park was able to tie it up it in the final minutes of regulation. Most of the way thru the second overtime Ridgefield … Read more and see pictures
Ramapo River post Irene
Like visiting an old friend whose changed a lot….probably don’t need to tell any North Jersey Paddles that Irene made some changes. The old broken dam south of Suffern has a bad sweeper in the fast water. It is viable from the approach. I … Read more and see pictures
Wallkill River Saturday Sept. 17th with HRCKC
Saturday the 17th promised to be a beautiful day, so despite Martin’s warnings seven of us showed up at the Sussex Queen diner. In Martin’s words “it’s high but ok. but with probable carrying/climbing/dragging over blowdowns and strainers – may … Read more and see pictures
Paramus 20 Northern Valley Old Tappan 16 HS Football
Exciting…I know I shouldn’t admit it, but this was a great game…certainly the most exciting I have ever been at. Not the Giant’s 2007 Superbowl victory (the most exciting game I ever saw), not pro over even college sports, but … Read more and see pictures
Irene in Vermont
Visited Vermont and also saw some destruction and good examples of how natural systems can recover more quickly. Parks are a great thing to put in a flood prone area….tennis court is full of dried mud, a few muddy places … Read more and see pictures
Passiac River Flooding thru Paterson and Fairlawn, NJ
Paddled down the Passiac thru Paterson just as it was coming down. Though I saw (and shot) a few flooding homes mostly I saw inconvenience, not destruction, with streets blocked off, parks, yards and swimming pools flooding. When floodplains contain … Read more and see pictures
Surviving Irene
We have survived. As we live only a block from the tidal part of the Hackensack River so our area had a voluntary evacuation….a voluntary evacuation? What’s the difference between that and a vacation? We did move the car out … Read more and see pictures
Delaware River with HRCKC
On Saturday, August 13th, quite a few of us intreprid souls met at the Water Gap….we first convoyed up to Worthington State Park a few miles (and that one darn 3 minute stoplight), spent a while unloading, convoyed down to … Read more and see pictures
Ramapo River with Hackensack Canoe and Kayak Club
On June 25th 5 intrepid souls joined me for a little trip down the Ramapo. On Wednesday several inches of rain in an hour or so had pushed the gauges up above 4000 cfs (flood stage) but by Friday morning … Read more and see pictures