How many of us are tristate or NJ poster s?

“I?m looking at the State Roll Call Thread and seeing that many people are from NJ. So, what county are you from? I?m from Bergen in NJ.”

“Tri-states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. No other "tri-states" that I know of!!

(good to see ya back, Tea!)”

“Not so there Lizs!
Arklatex is another one, I think there are many more.”

“I moved to PA from NJ 1.5 years ago. My grandparents live in Teaneck and I was born @ Holy Name Hospital in Fort Lee.”

“Ice Tea,
Do you hike in Harriman State Park often?”

“Massamontshire!”

“We got a tri-state area. Tennessee, Kentucky, & Virginia. That's where Cumberland Gap NP is located.”

“my mother works at holy name”

“The greater Cincinnati, Oh. area incorporates Northern Ky. and SE Indiania. We also have 3 state Capitals within a hour and half drive, for what its worth.”

“florgiabama”

“New Jersey Shore here. Hike at Harriman all the time! One of my faviorate places”

“Thinking of a weekend trip to Harriman???”

“I'm sure you could easily drum up a couple people for a day hike atleast.

I'm pretty booked this summer. I'm taking the plunge and getting married July 21.. so that is keeping us busy. Plus we just bought a log home this winter so that has been keeping us busy on the weekends.

But if I am free I will make it.”

“I will be between Mt Minsi (Kirkwood Shelter) to 15 miles south the second weekend of June with a bunch of Boy Scouts - Will be doing Harriman in July with them. August we havent figured out yet. Maybe Catskills. Oct we are always in Harriman going over Bear mt.

Catskills the end of June for 4 days with Girl Scouts.

Isnt life grand!”

“michianio”

“In Tri State area I ment NJ NY PA”

“Well,...you didn`t make that very clear, did you?LOL”

“I thought that only NJ PA and NY where refered to as the Tri State Area”

“Only in your neck of the woods!LOL”

“I didn't know any better”

“In WA, we have a tri-cities area.

I used to hike in Bear Mountain. That's where I started hiking before I left for WA. I can remember doing Mt. Taurus. I can't remember the others.

I traveled on the subway & LIRR to get their from Brooklyn. I enjoyed the views of the Hudson River.”

“LH, How long did you live in NY? Were you born in this area?”

“I knew what he meant. I am in western Morris county, born in Princeton. You're going to the Catskills with the girl scouts, M&M? That's great, I'm hoping to plan a trip there with a few girl scouts this summer. Not an official troop trip, just friends. I just got back from Glen Spey NY town encampment, but it was a large group and a tense event for me. The highlight though was the girls all learned how to row and we had no real boat crashes.”

“adventurist, I was born in Brooklyn, NY, and lived there for 40 years. I then moved to WA state for the past 3+yrs.

I've lived all around Brooklyn and in NYC.”

“I moved to PA fours years ago from KS via WY”

“young&creaky
You a GS leader or an older GS? I was part of a GS committee that trained girls to BP. Now we just hike with the ones we last put thru the program. One of the girls has graduated college and is now a northbounder on the AT. Pretty cool.
For first timers the Catskills can be hard - depending on what you do. We are doing the Devils Pass.”

“Ever get my e-mail I sent you?”

“M&M, I am a girl scout leader of young girls. When I was a girl scout, we didn't backpack. The moms and girls were too city. My Mom took us scouts camping in PA with the motorhome and some of the girls hated even that. I quit after that. But I want my own troop and my own girls to be more outdoorsy. About the Catskills, I'll look for something less difficult. Thanks.”

“Middlesex County, NJ currently.”

“Born in Hackensack. Grew up in Ridgewood, where I graduated High School. Got smart and moved to Florida.

Harriman was my second home. I also hiked the 'Dacks most summers. National Ski Patrol for Hunter Mountain in winter.

Man, I DO NOT miss those horrendous crowds of people-going-everywhere-like-chickens-with-their-heads-cut-off-and-thinking-that-they're-incredibly-smart-because-they-can-use-a-million-words-to-say-absolutly-nothing-in-about-two-seconds. There is no better place to be if you want to try to keep up with the Jones's. Ahhhh, I can still smell the polution. And how about that puke orange-brown sunrise over NY City? How romantic.

What a nice place to grow up, but I wouldn't want to live there.”

“Just another tuff-guy hood from duh Bronx. I'll say this, if it weren't for abundant weekend hiking possibilities, I wouldn't be here. The climate is nice, also. I'm lucky to have summers off, so I cheat the humidity cloud by heading West.”

“I am from the DC, MD, and VA area!!!!!!! I can get on my bike in MD, bike into DC, and then into VA, and back to DC and MD, and then into DC and back into VA, and then back to DC and then VA, etc...”

“New York Sh!tty, it's a great place. The city is yours, everything is here, everything, yet I seek what no one wants, what no one has. I look for the beauty, a green spot to call my own. Who is my neighbor? Will I be touched on the subway, the best form of mass transportation. Upstate NY, my salvation, so far away, the drive becomes the focus.”

“Nice one hot lips!”

“Hey,

does anyone know when to use "then" and "than", what's the rule, I missed that day in elem. school!”

“If you're chained to a desk or a bourgeois life, it doesn't matter if Mt. Rainier (or Park Ave.) is outside your window... and NYC happens to be set-out on the morrainal outwash of the last glacier, interesting in the naturalistic sense. And diverse. It's possible to customize trips to different weather possibilities: Go here to avoid the oppressiveness of summer. Go there to avoid the avoid the ferocious winter. And you can even say where "here" and "there" are. I find that despite a lotta wannabes and lookalikes, there aren't many b'packers in NYC. I work as part of a professional staff of 250, and I know of only one other person there who regularly b'packs. Satori, remember, is a state of mind. And sometimes I regret having become fortyish and not having extricated myself from this place. But it's a lot moe interesting for the hiker than say, Des Moines or Houston”

“Like Ice Tea, I live in Bergen County, NJ. No offense to Ice and you other Jersey-ites, but good God I can't wait to move out of this area!

Just another year or year and a half, and hello New England! The girlfriend and I have been saving up for a house.”

“I thought Ice-Tea was a rapper from LA (outta NWA, I believe). Has he reconfigured himself into a motivational speaker from Paramus? Bust one for us!”

“Varmit, I chose the name Ice Tea because its my favorite beverage, NOT because of the rapper. I HATE RAP”

“I'm not too fond of rap either, but Ice T the rapper ain't all that bad. He's a cool cat.”

“So I guess a lot of us are dreaming of the day we can move out of the tri-state area. Where I live used to be all farm land, but the farms sold out and mini-mansions were built. The character of the town population has changed drastically as a result. I used to be part of the yuppie thing but after having kids, I feel more like simplifying and scaling back.”

“I love where I am. The best of both worlds. Right on the ocean. (I'm a water rat at heart), Backpacking is 1.5 hours away. And Yes - I LIKE THE CITY! - plays, museums, the village. Its quiet during the week. Summer weekends are busy with the tourists.”

“young & creaky

GS leader for 11 years - doing BS's now. Keep at it. It makes a difference with the kids. Especially the outdoor stuff. The parents dont get out like they used to.
What part of Jersey are you from - ???”

“m&m, born in Princeton, lived on Chesapeake for 6 years (love the bay!), lived many years in Somerset, then moved to western Morris County. Hiking and camping are close, so I am rediscovering. I just don't know how crowded it is yet. I go to Hacklebarney early morning on weekends and have the place to my self until about 2PM. The Poconos are very mobbed on weekends. Jenny Jump has backpacking campsites that are not real far from parking but I don't know how busy they are or what the people are like that camp there. I have lots to learn and I don't have all the equipment I need. This weekend we camped in Glen Spey with girl scouts and we were cold (maybe it was in the 40's). Need better sleeping bags for spring and fall. I also have no frame backpacks. My husband thinks everytime I'm online I'm shopping and I promised that I was done for the year. So until next year I'll have to borrow stuff.”

“y&c

FYI - EMS will donate camping/BPing equipment to scout troops. Its their old rental stuff they give away. Just got 15 sleeping bags, 6 externals, 4 tents from them - paramus and freehold stores. For our BS troop. email me if you want info on starting the girls on bping. I used to be on GS Council Committee that taught the girls - progression outline - with hikes to match, mostly in NJ/PA/NY area.
my IM is grendelmm”

“Yahooooo! Christmas in May! Where do I sign up? Sorry, I didn't understand your last sentence. Our council camping expert recently left the area, and I think there is a big knowledge void there. Or maybe because my girls are young they don't want to spend time answering my questions. We have a problem getting enough volunteers for council in my area, so I am sure everyone is busy.”

“we had a group of 5 adults that took girls from all over the council backpacking. Our council has 15,000 girls/adults in it.
We would start when they were 12 with basics. Do day hikes, teach them to cook, LNT ethics, orienteering etc. Then we would take them on easy overnights/weekends and end up with doing a week-2 week trips with them in august.”