Footnotes Fall 2023

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  • They hiked 50 miles in a day! Two separate 50 mile one-day hikes by DV Chapter members.
  • Training and expanding Valley Forge trail crews: AMC trail leaders, NPS staff and volunteers working to maintain and improve park trails.
  • Teaching outdoor skills at PEEC.
  • Paddling the Perkiomen Creek.
  • August Camp 2023 story and lots of photos.

Footnotes Winter 2020-2021

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  • Virtual Annual Meeting
  • Appie Awards
  • Smartest of birds
  • Super hiker—super angel
  • Help what you hike on
  • Sun is a Compass review
  • Rail trail opens
  • ATC honors DV leaders

Footnotes Fall 2020

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  • COVID Heroes
  • Annual Meeting, no dinner!
  • 2021 EC nominations
  • Leadership’s joys and challenges
  • Goldenrod, a joy in fall
  • Highlands Story Map

Footnotes Summer 2020

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  • AMC Restart
  • Fall Gathering Postponed
  • Bird of Prey
  • Unlikely Thru-hiker
  • Tree Pandemics
  • Art & Photo Contest Winners

Footnotes Spring 2020

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  • A look at Earth Day at 50
  • Elevation gain: what it means
  • Chapter long-term investments
  • Now is the time to volunteer
  • Top leaders and 100 plus milers
  • Three nasty invasive bugs
  • There was snow in the Catskills

Footnotes Winter 2019-2020

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  • New activity rating system
  • Appie & Golden Appie awards
  • Winter hiking clothes and gear
  • 2020 outdoor leadership programs
  • Former DV chair now AMC’s treasurer
  • Chapter weekend retrospect
  • August Camp 2020 goes Olympic

Footnotes Fall 2019

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  • Trail running
  • DV to host 2020 Fall Gathering
  • Two years of tree planting
  • Highlands trail adds new section
  • August Camp 2019

Footnotes Summer 2019

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  • Glen Onoko Trail Closed
  • ID Chestnut Trees
  • Water Safety Course Offered
  • Summer Reading Group
  • New Leaders 2019
  • Meet the Ridge Runner

Footnotes Spring 2019

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  • DV leaders earn four club-wide awards
  • Land & Water Conservation Fund renewed
  • Original keepers of our national parks
  • New New Jersey guide book by DV author
  • Tree planting: good and fun
  • Outdoor leadership learning opportunities
  • Top leaders & 100-plus milers

Footnotes Winter 2018

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  • Appie Awards
  • Mohican a gem
  • Leadership workshops
  • Hiking history review
  • 45 years on the AT
  • Lonesome Lake family
  • August Camp 2019

Footnotes Fall 2018

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  • Conservation fund expiring
  • Freya Stark, explorer
  • Leadership learning programs
  • Review: The Adventure Gap
  • Fall Gathering in Connecticut
  • August Camp photos and story

Footnotes Summer 2018

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  • Hiking in a strange land
  • Enslaved explorer on Lewis & Clark Expedition
  • I love to hike
  • Leadership grads 2018
  • Trail crews at work
  • Ridge runner 2018

Footnotes Spring 2018

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  • DV Chapter leaders earn top honors at AMC annual meeting
  • Matthew Henson, story of a polar explorer
  • Trekking Iceland with AMC Mountain Leadership School skills
  • Mohican Getaways for kids
  • Outdoor Leadership Workshop April 6-8
  • Top activities leaders and participants of 2017
  • Hiking, paddling skills programs, and more!

Footnotes Winter 2017-2018

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  • Hiking the AT in 20 years
  • Winter hiking workshops
  • More on chestnut trees
  • Appie Awards
  • Watching the AT
  • Memorial tree
  • Winter waterfowl
  • Highlands Trail
  • August Camp 2018

Footnotes Fall 2017

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  • Goldenrod
  • American Chestnut
  • Diversity
  • Leadership training
  • Climate Change
  • Ruby Harwood, first woman AMC president, 1917-2017
  • August Camp, a personal view
  • Summer on the river

Footnotes Summer 2017

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  • Fireflies
  • The building of the LeRoy Smith Shelter
  • A dock for everyone
  • Rich Wells remembered
  • Ridge Runner 2017
  • How to fix a flat bicycle tire
  • Backpacking, solo canoe, swiftwater workshops

Footnotes Spring 2017

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  • Top leaders & participants
  • Volunteers keep trails open
  • Outdoor leadership training
  • Leaders: using Meetup
  • Custom activities lists
  • and more!

Footnotes Winter 2016 – 2017

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  • Winter hiking
  • Free XC skiing
  • Winter things to do
  • Dave Simpson’s legacy
  • Hike that helped others
  • Outdoor leadership
  • Appie Awards

Footnotes Summer 2016

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  • Highland Trail Stewards
  • Ian Kindle: State park Educator of the Year
  • Leadership training graduated 29
  • Become a Mohican getaway leader
  • Mountains of the Heart review

Footnotes Spring 2016

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  • Bald eagles!
  • Leroy Smith Shelter roof
  • New leader training
  • Gear swap
  • Activity awards social
  • Highlands Trail progress
  • PennEast Pipeline update
  • Kent Johnson remembered

Footnotes Winter 2015-2016

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  • Where to XC ski
  • AMC mid-Atlantic office moves to historic mill
  • New Highlands trail crew
  • Leader training programs
  • New Mohican Managers
  • Gear swap planned
  • Boot failure repeat and update

Footnotes Fall 2015

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  • Why leaves change color
  • Chapter weekend
  • Annual dinner
  • Fall Gathering
  • New leaders
  • August Camp 2015

Footnotes Summer 2015

  • Highland Trail advances
  • Record leader training
  • Happy 50th, Water Gap Area
  • Picnic 2015
  • Leader Appreciation Campout
  • AMC at the Phillies
  • Chapter Weekend
  • Top leaders and hikers
  • Electronic trip reports
  • Ridge Runner 2015
  • Trail work photos

Footnotes Spring 2015

  • Keeping shelter
  • Looking for wildflowers
  • Mountain climbing doc
  • Leader freebies:
    • Young leader training and membership
    • Wilderness first aid course
    • Free dinner in April
    • Free weekend trip in July
  • Activity Social
  • Paddling training
  • Volunteer opportunities

Footnotes Winter 2014-2015

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  • Favorite X-C Skiing Places
  • Mid-Atlantic Backpacking Guide Reviewed
  • Appie Awards
  • Hiker Miles take a Step Forward
  • Outdoor Leadership Training
  • Annual Meeting & Dinner
  • August Camp 2015

Footnotes Fall 2014

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  • Building the Ringing Rocks Trail
  • Gathering Chestnuts for the Future
  • Phil Ritchie, a Great Teacher
  • August Camp 2014
  • Summer Photos
  • Annual Meeting & Dinner

Footnotes Summer 2014

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  • Explore the shores!
  • Boot failure
  • Walkingstick man
  • Top leaders
  • 100 mile hikers
  • Chapter picnic
  • Leader social
  • Giant jack-in-the-pulpits

Footnotes Spring 2014

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  • Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac
  • Expanding family activities
  • American Chestnut hikes
  • PA Highlands trail progress
  • Outdoor leadership training
  • paddling courses, wilderness first aid

Footnotes Winter 2013-2014

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  • Inside: Cross-country Skiing, PA Highlands Trail
  • Update, AMC teams with FracTracker, Mohican
  • turns 20, Appie awards, Fall Gathering photos

Footnotes Fall 2013

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  • Fall Gathering Issue: we hosted the Gathering
  • Trailwork in Maine in the 100 mile wilderness,
  • New Mohican assistant manager
  • Mulica River canoe camping photos

Footnotes Summer 2013

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  • New Jersey Pine Barrens
  • 100 mile hikers and top leaders
  • NewFall Gathering preview

Footnotes Spring 2013

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  • Hike historic Glen Onoko
  • Ruby Horwood: AMC pioneer
  • Mohican’s many improvements
  • Become an AMC leader

Footnotes Winter 2012-2013

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  • Hikes for short winter days
  • Dress for winter
  • DV to host Fall Gathering 2013
  • New hikers information
  • Appie awards

Footnotes Fall 2012

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  • Mohican Midweek in Fall
  • August Camp photos
  • Fall hawk migration
  • Duke Farm surprise
  • Annual Dinner information
  • Fall gathering 2012
  • Leadership training

Footnotes Spring 2012

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  • Why you probably can’t name this flowering tree. Hint: It used to be very big around here. Hike to help it!
  • Leader Training, Activities Social, Spring Fling and more!
  • Weekday hiking, car shuttles, paddling training and a bicycle event.

Footnotes Winter 2011-2012

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  • Facing Winter
  • Mac White Remembered
  • Helping Meet Education Needs in Uganda
  • Chapter honors five retiring leaders
  • Annual meeting and dinner
  • Appie awards

Footnotes Fall 2011

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  • Fall Hiking on the Coast of Maine
  • Hunting on Sundays?
  • Gas Drilling in State Parks
  • Redesigned Annual Meeting and Dinner
  • Wonderful Waterfall Hike in the Water Gap Mohican Gets Family Camping Loaner Gear
  • Fall Gathering
  • Adventure Travel Leader Training
  • Leadership Training this Fall

Footnotes Summer 2011

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  • Summer at the shore
  • PA Highlands Trail update
  • Spring Fling: story and photos
  • Gasland filmmaker addresses issues
  • Annual Picnic
  • Leaders’ Social

Footnotes Spring 2011

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  • Spring whitewater
  • Spring Fling
  • Leader training
  • Meetup

Footnotes Winter 2010-2011

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  • Natural gas, a painful extraction
  • “I was an August camp virgin”
  • Warm & safe during winter activities
  • Building a trail bridge

Footnotes Fall 2010

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  • Schuylkill River Trail
  • You can make a difference
  • Unsung hero
  • Lyme disease
  • Summer photos
  • Review: Best Day Hikes Near Philadelphia

Footnotes Summer 2010

  • Perkiomen Trail
  • Schedule goes modern
  • Top leaders, trail stewards
  • 100 mile hikers
  • Paddling courses
  • New guide book
  • Colbert at Mohican

Footnotes Winter 2009-2010

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  • Gas drilling in state forests
  • Jan Shepard, hero
  • Footnotes drops schedule
  • Appie awards
  • Photos from past year

Footnotes Fall 2009

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  • Public service – trail work issue
  • Last issue with schedule (schedule pages deleted)
  • Member Center
  • Nantucket bicycling
  • Picnic photos
  • Paddling photos

Footnotes Summer 2009

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  • Summer Paddling
  • Mohican Spring Fling Photos
  • Top leaders, hiker miles
  • Home brew & hiking
  • (schedule pages redacted)

Footnotes Spring 2009

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  • Mountaintop Removal
  • China Trip
  • Spring Fling
  • Mohican improvements
  • Highlands Trail reaches PA
  • Winter hike photos
  • (schedule pages redacted)

Footnotes Winter 2008-2009

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  • Cross country skiing
  • Dress for winter hiking comfort & safety.
  • Tough! Rewarding! Winter backpacking.
  • Winter paddling? We’re not kidding!
  • Appie awards(schedule pages deleted)

Footnotes Fall 2006

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  • New bridge at Betzwood
  • Chapter weekend at Harriman AMC
  • Regional Office adds planner
  • Fall hiking series
  • Annual Dinner preview
  • August Camp 2016
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