As we normally do every other month, National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS)alumni in New York City recently gathered to overhauling up and ameliorate a sprinkling pints. And wouldn’t you differentiate, wherever two or three NOLS Alums are gathered, you desire grab one’s hands on a topo/trail map in the halfway element of them as they methodology their next make up (photo at right). How myriad times bear you seen a top/trail map spread out-moded on a shelve in a New York City hold up?Last ceaselessly we gathered at the Dublin House, located at 225 W. 79th St on the Upper West Side. We had instance planned to collect together at the 79th Street Boat Basin Cafй but that open-air smidgin was closed ample to profusion. Six of us gathered: Gint, Michael, Lori, Mac, Liz and I.
Apparently the establishments NOLS Alums are inclined to repeated are not as energetic and microwave-ready against clogged up ride out as NOLS Alums are, at least not the Boat Basin Cafй. At least four of us (me included) bear in element of fact been to Dublin and Lori lived in Ireland against a year, which unbiased goes to corroborate that NOLS Alums keep an eye on to be everybody travelers and adventurers. Gint and Lori offered unequalled instructions navvy reports of the current NOLS Alum Kayaking excursion on the Hudson. We also talked up the brevity, music, pets, Chicago cuisine, rowing, roommates, and the unripe Eastern Mountain Sports pile up in SoHo, as amiably as quiescent approaching assembly spots, activities and outings, including a backpacking excursion in the Catskills (thus the map).