Hosted Weekend: August Americana Summer

August Americana Summer Weekend - Everybody welcome, members, applicants, guests & families!   Dinner of burgers, vegetarian black-eyed peas with crunchy additions, boiled beets, steamed corn & sliced zucchini, huge variegated salad & melon. Classic happy hour with wine & citrus water. Easy continental breakfast buffet, boiled eggs, fresh bread & toppings. Luscious lunch sandwiches. Mention […]

Guest Hike: Interpretive Nature Walk

Nawakwa Camp Nawakwa, Harriman State Park, NY

MaryLynne Malone, Educator from the Palisades Interstate Park Commission - Regional Museums Division, will lead an Interpretive Nature Walk at camp at 4 pm.

Hosted Weekend: Janet Sibarium and Anita DeKroger

Late Summer BBQ Enjoy BBQ chicken (or grilled vegetable spears for vegetarians)…..and fresh season produce, (corn-on-the-cob, salad)… Healthy, tasty, easy to prepare meals to satisfy omnivores and vegetarians.  It’s back to basics of BBQing and good times.  When registering, please specify which meals (Saturday dinner only or all meals, including Sunday breakfast/trail lunch) and if […]

Snakes Live! Guest appearance from Bear Mountain State Park

Nawakwa Camp Nawakwa, Harriman State Park, NY

Join us at camp and be sure to stay late Saturday as Bear Mountain State Park will provide an presentation on Snakes of the Park with live specimens on August 13 after dinner.  

Orientation Session

Nawakwa Camp Nawakwa, Harriman State Park, NY

For new Applicants and current Keyholders who’d like a refresher, an Orientation Session is scheduled for Saturday 8/20/2022. Maryann Poris and Ray Kozma will lead the orientation. Participants can notify either Ray (raymondkozma@gmail.com) or Maryann (maporis@aol.com) that they will be attending. The starting time will be at 11am and all should meet at camp.

Hosted Weekend: Yajing Li & Maryann Poris

HERE'S TO TASTY TOFU! Please join us for a weekend of cooling and tasty vegetarian food to the theme of tofu.  The appetizers for happy hour and the dinner menu include authentic Asian flavors as well as fusion style cooking. Dinner will be followed by peach and berry pies and ice cream for dessert.  Vegetarian […]

Late Summer Work Weekend (hosted weekend too!)

Second Summer Work Weekend – August 27-28, 2022 The work weekend will include continued clearing of all pathways and driveway, mowing, weed whipping, continued renovation of the handrail to the swim area. Lodge and cabin cleaning. Picnic table renovation. Other maintenance chores as necessary. Something for everyone! Saturday lunch will be provided by the camp, […]

Hosted Weekend: Zhihong Shi & Peter Cohn

An end of summer cookout. Menu to include hors d'oeuvres and refreshments, grilled steak and portobello mushrooms, tomato and onion salad, corn on the cob, and stone fruit tart.  Breakfast and bag lunches will also be available. Please email Peter (petercohn@gmail.com) or Ski (zhihong.shi@gmail.com) to sign up and make food requests by Wed Aug 24.

Camp Quannacut – (5 miles) – Sunday, August 28, 2022

Harriman State Park Harriman State Park, Harriman, NY

The New York Chapter’s first camp in Harriman State Park was at Camp Quannacut (situated on Queensboro Lake) and used April and May of 1924). This hike will visit and have lunch at Queensboro Lake as we try to imagine what that first generation of members experienced having their first camp in the park. Hike […]