Tag: nature
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Race Report: Mining For Vert Challenge
This race consisted of a 0.7673934-mile trail loop up and down the Silvermine Ski Hill, in Harriman State Park, put on wonderfully by CTW Endurance. You could do the two-hour or the four-hour option; I did the latter. (There was also a 7.488766-mile trail race.) The course Up one abandoned little ski slope— The loop starts…
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Race Report: Frosty Fat Sass
This race consisted of a 5K trail loop around the South Mountain Reservation, in New Jersey. It offered three options: I did the latter, so my race lasted from nine a.m. to three p.m. … ish. A few other things The race was self-supported; only water was provided. No problem—typical for a timed race in…
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Parks of the Bronx: Riverdale photo essay
One of the last areas I expect anyone to notice, when they look at a map of New York City, is the vertical sliver of green in the northwest corner of the Bronx. But that’s where Riverdale Park sits, tucked between train tracks along the Hudson River and a two-lane asphalt forest road with city speed limits. Riverdale Park…
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Harriman State Park: Trail runner’s paradise an hour north of New York City
Harriman State Park, Region 3 of the Lower Hudson Valley, is thirty-five miles north of New York City, close enough that you can see the Manhattan skyline . . . . . . if you know where to look. But Harriman’s proximity to the densest metropolitan area in the United States of America is only part of what…
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You’ll never believe this is Manhattan: Fall photos of Inwood Hill Park
This summer, I did photo essay of Fort Tryon Park, the gorgeous clifftop greenery in the northern hills of Manhattan. But Fort Tryon does not represent the tip of the island. That would be Inwood Hill Park, the borough’s last remaining natural forest. Inwood’s a swath of history. Glacial potholes have been forming there for…
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You’ll never believe this is Manhattan: Summer photos of Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters
My favorite places in New York City are places that don’t look or feel like New York City. They could be adjacent to the icons, a specific bench in Battery Park or Midtown, a vantage point in Brooklyn Bridge Park or Astoria, Queens, just as much as they could be literally on the city’s outermost…
Nathan Schiller 