Summer FLT hike honors Ed Sidote
NORWICH – A whopping number of people, somehwere between 45 and 50, showed up to honor the FLT’s end-to-end coordinator Ed Sidote on the annual ‘Summer Ed Sidote Hike’ sponsored by the Finger Lakes Trail Conference.
Led by Don Windsor of Ed’s “home club,” the Bullthistle Hiking Club of Chenango County, the group completed a six mile loop along the FLT and seasonal back roads near Pharsalia and Jackson Pond, on FLT Map M23.
It was a gorgeous day, befitting the occasion. Sidote arrived early, and set up “court” in the parking lot greeting all the participants as only he can, with cold bottles of water, cookies, and other snacks left over from his club’s National Trials Day outing earlier this summer.
Don, who regularly leads hikes for the Bullthistle Hiking Club, entertained the participants with stories of local lore and plant identification. Don, I learned, is the Deputy Historian for Chenango County when he’s not out leading hikes.
Following the completion of the hike, a small group of us drove over and walked out to nearby Rufus Perkins Leanto, built in 2005. It was my first visit there, a real gem of a leanto built on a very pretty setting. The outhouse even smelled new, too!
I’d like to thank all the participants, many were from the Bullthistle Hiking Club with some of the others from the Cayuga Trails Club, the Triple Cities Hiking Club, and elsewhere. Some of the folks I recognized or knew included Roger Hopkins, John Anderson, Jack Vanderzee, Kristin Schafer, Joe “the map guy” Dabes and his sidekick John “bird man” Morris, Dot Rice, Bob and Sue Bliven, Pete Flezsar, and of course my wife, Susan!
This was the second of the three ‘named hikes’ for 2009 to be sponsored by the FLTC, the third and final one, the Fall Erv Markert Hike, will take place on Saturday, Oct. 24. That one’s being led by John Morris and will be on a section of the FLT/Spanish Loop over near Dryden on FLT Map M19 in Cortland County.
I would greatly appreciate anyone who has photos from this hike forwarding them on to me (LBlumberg@stny.rr.com), as I’d like to pick one or two to submit to Jo Taylor (Finger Lakes Trail News magazine editor) for possible inclusion in the next edition.
Again, thanks to all who came out to hike on a beautiful day in Chenago County and to honor Ed Sidote!
By Larry Blumberg
Coordinator for the 2009 FLTC “Named Hike Series”
Led by Don Windsor of Ed’s “home club,” the Bullthistle Hiking Club of Chenango County, the group completed a six mile loop along the FLT and seasonal back roads near Pharsalia and Jackson Pond, on FLT Map M23.
It was a gorgeous day, befitting the occasion. Sidote arrived early, and set up “court” in the parking lot greeting all the participants as only he can, with cold bottles of water, cookies, and other snacks left over from his club’s National Trials Day outing earlier this summer.
Don, who regularly leads hikes for the Bullthistle Hiking Club, entertained the participants with stories of local lore and plant identification. Don, I learned, is the Deputy Historian for Chenango County when he’s not out leading hikes.
Following the completion of the hike, a small group of us drove over and walked out to nearby Rufus Perkins Leanto, built in 2005. It was my first visit there, a real gem of a leanto built on a very pretty setting. The outhouse even smelled new, too!
I’d like to thank all the participants, many were from the Bullthistle Hiking Club with some of the others from the Cayuga Trails Club, the Triple Cities Hiking Club, and elsewhere. Some of the folks I recognized or knew included Roger Hopkins, John Anderson, Jack Vanderzee, Kristin Schafer, Joe “the map guy” Dabes and his sidekick John “bird man” Morris, Dot Rice, Bob and Sue Bliven, Pete Flezsar, and of course my wife, Susan!
This was the second of the three ‘named hikes’ for 2009 to be sponsored by the FLTC, the third and final one, the Fall Erv Markert Hike, will take place on Saturday, Oct. 24. That one’s being led by John Morris and will be on a section of the FLT/Spanish Loop over near Dryden on FLT Map M19 in Cortland County.
I would greatly appreciate anyone who has photos from this hike forwarding them on to me (LBlumberg@stny.rr.com), as I’d like to pick one or two to submit to Jo Taylor (Finger Lakes Trail News magazine editor) for possible inclusion in the next edition.
Again, thanks to all who came out to hike on a beautiful day in Chenago County and to honor Ed Sidote!
By Larry Blumberg
Coordinator for the 2009 FLTC “Named Hike Series”
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