Mike Nardacci

The rocky promontory known as “Stark’s Knob” rises a short distance north of the village of Schuylerville and when the leaves are off the trees its summit affords a panoramic view of the Hudson Riv

Rainy weather is the bane of most geologic field trips; perhaps the only weather worse is wet falling snow.

Most New York State caves are closed to visitors from Oct. 1 to May 1.

Most New York State caves are closed to visitors from Oct. 1 to May 1.

Most New York State caves are closed to visitors from Oct. 1 to May 1.

A recent issue of the “Friends of Thacher Park” newsletter featured an essay by state geologist Dr. Chuck Ver Straeten describing some of the rock layers that form the Helderberg Plateau.

The goal of every serious mountain climber in the Northeast is to bag the three Big Ones: New York State’s Mount Marcy at 5,344 feet; Maine’s Mount Katahdin with its famous — or infamous —“Knife Ed

New York’s borough of Brooklyn was a separate city in the 19th Century. Its population astounds — over 4 million people live within its crowded streets representing every nationality most of us have heard of and some which we have not, living in their own neighborhoods in which the native language may be spoken exclusively.

A recurrent problem in geology is the sudden appearance of what researchers term a “leave-it.”

Among American novels, J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” is one of those that until not many years ago every high-school student would read — perhaps had read in junior high — and would read again as a young adult to savor its protagonist Holden Caulfield’s wry put-downs of the “phoniness” of the adult world.

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