Volkssport Club of West Point e-NEWS
April 2006
Welcome
to the April 2006 Edition of the Volkssport Club of West Point newsletter!
We organize our letter with club information first, other walking information
second, then a Calendar of Events.
- Next Group Walk - Sun 4/30 - Cornwall - See calendar below!
- Next Event - Fort Montgomery – Sat, 4/22 - See calendar below!
- Thanks to the Renewals and New Members in 2006!
- From 24 January thru 31 March, we’ve
received renewals and membership dues from the following six
families: Judy Polczer, Jan Aumick, The Heubergers (James,Lorraine,Caitlin,Jeremy,Emily), The Andersons (Peter
and Eileen) , Robert McElroy, and Leo Bourque. If you mailed
your dues after that date, we’ll acknowledge you in
our next letter. And thanks for
supporting the club!
- We will be mailing out membership cards to all
shortly!
- Atlantic Region Calendar -
Club President Joan Kimmel supplied the attached Atlantic Region calendar.
Thanks Joan! This is for your use
to plan your upcoming walks! As
always. be sure to check with the sponsoring clubs before ABSOLUTELY
assuming walks and events that are listed are on!
- Re-scheduling of the Highland Falls Walk -
Due to the snowstorm we had on
our regularly scheduled Group Walk in February that 'snowed out' Highland Falls, we plan to RESCHEDULE Highland Falls Group YRE
sometime in late June - stay tuned! As you know, you
can get 'event' AVA credit for doing a walk twice each calendar
year, once in the first half, once in the second half. So we'll be
trying to pick a date that 'fits' in late June to get first half
credit.
- Princeton Club Walk Correction -
From the Princeton Area Walkers
Club – Some of us may have received information about one of their walks
in April. They’ve requested us to notify you of two 2 issues regarding
their South River walk on April 8.
1) The driving directions have a mistake.
Take a LEFT onto Old Bridge Turnpike - not a right.
2) Also the start point is not at the high school - it is at Denny Stadium
which is at the corner of Arlington and David St. The
driving directions are correct in that regard.
- Great Mapping Website!
Here is a link to a helpful
tool. You call up a city and map out your event. It calculates the mileage
and places mile markers! You can then print out the map and use it for
your brochure! www.gmap-pedometer.com
Pat Korloch, Historic Pathwalkers (Michigan)
- Did an Interesting Walk Lately??
Have you done an interesting
AVA walk somewhere that you might think other club members would enjoy
hearing abut? We’d love to have you
give an accounting of the walk so that other club members can use your
experience in perhaps planning a similar walk, or even the same one! So send us your ‘report’, pros and cons,
recommendations, that sort of thing!
Send them to our email address at the bottom of the newsletter.
As a starter, here’s an email from one of our frequent walkers, Charlotte
Philips of the Green State of Vermont!
“Come to Vermont, enjoy the fall colors and have a wonderful
Columbus Day walking in Vermont. The
dates of the walks are October 7 and 8th, the locations are Craftsbury
Common and Hardwick--two towns about fifteen miles apart. The dates may seem very distant, but for
the months involved it may be too late to get decent lodging. However, can we offer you and your
fellow walkers a deal. Rooms at the
Craftsbury Common Outdoor Center.
They are used to groups like ours. They have hosted many Elderhostels,
Appalachian Mountain Club groups which go cross-country skiing during the
day, and the like. Lodging is
simple and comfortable, in rooms of what used to be a boarding school. Prices include meals, eaten self-serve
buffet style. Meals are wholesome, often something such as lasagna, and
vegetarian options are offered.
Price per person comes to around $78, based on double occupancy. We would
get a small discount on this, probably 10%.
In order for Craftsbury to open up their dorm facilities for one night, we
need a minimum of 50 people. If we
want it for two nights, the minimum goes down to 35. What I need is a head count of how many
people would stay Saturday night, and how many would stay either Friday or
Sunday night for a second night. Before
we can reserve rooms we need to know how many would like to be assured of
a room. This arrangement would allow us to have a community meal on
Saturday evening.
Web site is www.craftsbury.com for those
who wish to take a look. We recently checked some of the few motels in the
area and found they were already pretty well booked for this
week-end--mainly by bus trips.
Please let Cynthia Gray know in writing if you are interested in a room.
Her address is P O Box
34, Waterbury Vermont 05677.
Please write her soon so we can finalize this deal with the Craftsbury
Common Outdoor lodge.
Also mark your calendars now for a walk in Middlebury on September 3 with
a 75th birthday Pot luck dinner afterwards at the American Legion. Walk
starts at 11 AM, party starts between 2 and 3. The guests of honor Ruth and I are
furnishing the meat and drinks.
This is a walk much of which we have never done before.
Charlotte”
- Best Walking Cities -
A friend of Club Treasurer Andrew
(Ed Rubin of Amenia New York) sent this along from some website he visited:
The Best Walking
Cities - To qualify, a city must
be among the country's 100 most populous. It must also have a high
percentage of people who regularly walk--for fitness and health, or to get
to and from work. (This criterion counted most this year; in past
rankings, the number of residents and their use of public transportation
carried more heft, which gave bigger cities an advantage.)
After the APMA and Prevention crunched those numbers, we then factored in
mass transit; research from the University of British Columbia in Canada
shows that every 30 minutes spent in a car increases your risk of obesity
by 3%, and each 0.6 mile walked daily decreases that risk by 5%.
Finally, walker-friendly attributes, such as low crime rates, mild
year-round temps, and the number of cultural attractions, were weighed, as
well as participation in recreational sports and pet ownership. Why do we
care about Fido? His needs can increase your physical activity, speed
weight loss, and lower blood pressure, find researchers at the University
of Missouri-Columbia.
And the winners are...
# 1 Portland, Oregon
#2 Colorado Springs, Colorado
#3 Madison, Wisconsin
#4 Boise City, Idaho
#5 Las Vegas, Nevada
#6 Austin, Texas
#7 Virginia Beach, Virginia
#8 Anchorage, Alaska
#9 Fremont, California
#10 Raleigh, North Carolina
- Current Calendar!
These below are 'confirmed' times and dates!
We are sometime
asked what a 'Group Walk' (as opposed to a Year Round Event (YRE) or
Event) is - We credit our sister club in Albany, the ESCV (EMPIRE STATE
CAPITAL VOLKSSPORTERS) for the following definition of GROUP walks: "Group Walk means all meet
and signup together at the same time,
get a map and start together, then you proceed at your
own pace. There are NO GUIDES for this kind of walk.. Nor does a
group have to stay together. "; so when you see this term in our
calendar below, you'll now know what it means! We usually have fast
walkers, slow walkers, and medium walkers, there's
almost always someone you can walk with if you join us for your first
time in a GROUP WALK!
Changes from the previous month in RED!
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4/22/2006 - 4/22/2006 - Walk
Event
Number : 74287
10 KM
Start : Holiday Inn Express
Event City: Fort Montgomery
Host
Club : Volkssport Club of West Point
Event
Website: http://www.ava.org/clubs/WestPoint/ftmontgomerywalk.html
More
Details: Click here for directions, ratings, etc.
Write for more
information to:
14 Hankin Loop
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Contact
: Joan Kimmel, (845) 462 - 6845
E-Mail:VolkssportClubofWestPoint@hotmail.com
Club
Website: www.ava.org/clubs/WestPoint
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Sun 4/30 - Cornwall:
Cornwall Group
YRE Walk on Sunday, 30 April 2006, Cornwall on Hudson, NY Our usual breakfast meeting will be held at 9 AM at the PARK Restaurant, 451 Main Street, in the Village of Highland Falls. All are welcomed
to the breakfast and meeting! Register at 10:15 A.M.at the West Point Visitor's Center, then you
need to make a short drive to the Cornwall starting point - Directions provided at the
Visitor's Center - Walking at 10:30 AM.
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Sun 5/7 - Hyde Park:
Club Group Walk
on Sunday, 7 May 2006.
Our usual
breakfast meeting will be held at 9:00 AM at the Eveready Diner in Hyde Park. (540 Albany Post Rd, just north and across US Route 9 from
the FDR
Presidential Library) in Hyde Park.
All are
welcomed to the breakfast and meeting!
Registration at
10:15 AM at the Eveready Diner as well. Walking at 10:30 AM.
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Sunday, 5/21 –
Mills Norrie State Park Event
5/21/2006 - 5/21/2006 - Walk
Event
Number : 74516
10 KM
Start : Mills - Norrie State Park
Event City: Staatsburg
Host
Club : Volkssport Club of West Point
Event
Website:
More
Details: Click here for directions, ratings, etc.
Write for more
information to:
14 Hankin Loop
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Contact
: Joan Kimmel, (845) 462 - 6845
E-Mail:jvkimmel@optonline.net
Club
Website: www.ava.org/clubs/WestPoint
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Sunday 6/11 - New York City (Group Walk co-coordinated with the Princeton Area
Walkers)
The Group Walk
has been determined to the "Lower Manhattan”.
We will meet at Bryant Park - just across the street from the New
Balance Store on 42nd and 6th (a hop, skip, and a Jump from Grand
Central) about 11:15 – 11:30 AM. More details on the Metro North Train that
many of us plan to take from Poughkeepsie in our next issue!
Maureen Penta of Princeton writes in her newsletter after meeting
in Bryant Park “We will then take the
train (subway) to the start point in Lower Manhattan. It is a great walk along the
river with views of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island as well as many other significant
landmarks in the financial district.
We ask Liberty
Bell Wanderers and all
walkers to join us on this walk. Please stop at funky
"Jeremy's" along the route (you won't believe Charlie
Kaiser's favorite place) and/or plan on meeting at any of
the many restaurants at South Street Seaport for lunch. The
restaurants are on the left as we pass the Titanic Checkpoint - we won't miss
each other, believe me. Lunch may be inside or out and I am sure
we will all hook up and see each other there.”
This sounds like a super multi-club event!
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These events below are subject to change; planning
dates only for now. We will get the details nailed down as we go
through event sanctioning with the AVA:
For planning purposes, here's the current TENTATIVE
Rest of 2006 Calendar:
These events are tentative
at the point in 2006 - hold the dates, and we'll issue confirmations in our
newsletters as we get AVA sanction confirmations and firm up details - as
always, you'll send them confirmed in our monthly newsletters:
1. ???????? - West Point . Additional info: Food provided by MWR
(Morale, Welfare, Recreation), West Point
2.
?? June - day TBD, Highland Falls YRE Group Walk Additional Info: College Campus,
Revolutionary War Site, US Presidents, Riverwalk America
3. Aug 5 - Saturday - Newburgh Additional info: River walk, College walk,
American revolution walk. US Presidents
4. Sept 10 - Sunday - Nyack Additional info:
Nyack Festival
5.
Sept.17 – Sunday – Cold
Spring Event - Additional info: Hudson Valley Ramble
6. Oct 15 - Sunday - West Point Additional
info: Oktoberfest - Food provided by MWR (Morale, Welfare, Recreation), West Point
7. Nov 12 - Sunday - New Paltz Additional
info: College walk
“See you on the trail!”
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- Joan, Nancy, Farrell, and Andrew
Volkssport
Club of West
Point
http://www.ava.org/clubs/WestPoint/
VolkssportClubofWestPoint@hotmail.com