Fix a trail, swap a bike
On Saturday, June 1, the American Hiking Society’s annual National Trails Day will hold activities that include trail maintenance projects. The Adirondack Mountain Club always hosts an event to celebrate it, this year at Adirondak Loj near Lake Placid.
If your favorite form of fitness includes more biking and less hiking, look to the sixth annual New Paltz Bike Swap, a fundraiser for the Fats in the Cats Bicycle Club, a non-profit which helps build and maintain multi-use trails, plus other community-service activities from refurbishing bikes for needy kids to working with local governments and policymakers to make roads and trails safer. Find out more by attending the bike swap on Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the middle school in New Paltz. Businesses interested in setting up tables can contact Kate at [email protected]. For more information on attending the free event go to www.newpaltzbikeswap.com. To find out more about Fats in the Cats and their good works, go to https://www.fatsinthecats.com/
For a more sedentary way to learn about active pursuits that enhance the ecology, a free lecture at the Cary Institute at 2801 Sharon Turnpike (Route 44) in Millbrook will be held on Friday, May 3 at 7 p.m. At “The Incidental Steward,” author Akiko Busch and Cary Institute scientist Stuart Findlay will tell us how we can play a role in scientific research by pulling up water chestnuts from the river, measuring beds of submerged aquatic vegetation, and more. Seating is first-come, first-served. For more information see www.caryinstitute.org or call (845) 677-7600, x121. You can also support Cary Institute’s work by visiting their trails that are open to the public.
