67F at 8.30am.Clouds taking center stage again, chugging through, obscuring the sun at regular intervals. Update: more rain, rising to about 80F by 3pm.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.48pm
Daily Catskills: 08/12/15
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Daily Catskills: 08/11/15
65F at 9.30am, overcast and drizzling, heavy overnight rains having given the landscape a thorough soaking and left trees dripping with aqueous jewels. Mist in the mountains until noon: a dark morning.
© J.N. Urbanski 9.15am
© J.N. Urbanski 10.30am
Daily Catskills: 08/10/15
60F at 7am, breezy, cloudy with brief periods sunshine, rising to 80F by noon. The usual clouds marching through, dampening the strength of the sun at regular intervals and darkening the afternoon.
© J.N. Urbanski 12.30pm
Daily Catskills: 08/09/15
80F by noon. A clear and sunny morning despite clouds sailing through. Haying continues…
© J.N. Urbanski 1.20pm
Daily Catskills: 08/08/15
80F by noon, and fairly bright despite August’s thus far regular, multifarious cloud cover.
© J.N. Urbanski 4pm
Daily Catskills: 08/07/15
70F at 9am rising to 75F by noon. A breezy morning waned to a still afternoon with scudding clouds.
© J.N. Urbanski 4pm
Daily Catskills: 08/06/15
A crisp 64F at 8.30am with hazy sunshine rising to 75F with brief periods of sunshine amidst the clouds.
© J.N. Urbanski 2.20pm
Daily Catskills: 08/05/15
65F at 8am with clear skies overhead and hazy horizon. A crisp morning with mist dissipating over the mountains.
© J.N. Urbanski 9.40am
Feminism in the Catskills
For the last three years, I’ve produced and hosted a radio show on WIOX that airs live on alternate Mondays at 9am out of Roxbury, New York. Two years ago, I did a series on feminism called Women in Film and set about doing research for the series. At the time I did my research two years ago, in about July 2013, the UK’s Guardian newspaper had reported the previous week that a recent study of 2012’s 100 highest grossing films found that only 28% of the speaking roles went to women. To say I was shocked and saddened is not exactly true because I was already certain that we have a long way to go before there’s some equality in Hollywood, so I just hunched over my desk with a long sigh and put my face in my hands.
A more recent statistic from the same publication is not much better: “women accounted for only 12% of on-screen protagonists in 2014, and just 30% of characters with speaking parts”.
Daily Catskills: 08/03/15
85F by the afternoon, hot and humid with multifarious cloud cover. Thunder and the barest sprinkle of rain at 3.30pm.
© J.N. Urbanski 3.50pm
Sunset Hike under a Full Blue Moon with Catskill Mountain Wild
Last night’s gorgeous sunset hike with Jeff Vincent of Catskill Mountain Wild occurred under a full, blue moon with clear skies and hazy sunset viewed from the fire tower atop Overlook Mountain in Woodstock. Go to the NYNJ Trail Conference website or the DEC to get the details of the hike. There’s nothing as quietening on the nerves as a strenuous hike that culminates in a few beers around the fire pit at one of the Catskills best bars, Commune Saloon on nearby Tinker Street. An uphill 2.5-mile battle at a thigh-burning gradient, the hike is worthwhile for the magnificent ruins of the Overlook Mountain House about half a mile from the summit. The hotel was built almost 100 years ago but swiftly abandoned by the developer mid-project. The trail is lined with burdock and mullein, but beware of the rattlesnakes. Once you ascend the fire tower you have almost 360-degree views of the Ashokan Reservoir, the Hudson River and the easternmost Catskill Mountains, once called the Blue Mountains for their blue hue. The 2.5-mile descent was under the gaze of the full, blue moon. A great hike to take visitors; the summit also includes a historical kiosk manned day and night by volunteer watchmen.
© J.N. Urbanski 11.15am
Daily Catskills: 07/20/15
70F at 8am, with overnight rain having dispelled only a fraction of yesterday’s humidity, rising to 82F by 1.30pm.
© J.N. Urbanski 12.40pm
Daily Catskills: 07/14/15
72F by 10am, humid with heavy clouds. Update: showers after lunch, but moody cloud cover remained.
© J.N. Urbanski 10.30am
© J.N. Urbanski 12.15pm
© J.N. Urbanski 7pm
Daily Catskills: 07/12/15
80F with hazy sunshine by noon.
© J.N. Urbanski 4.20pm
Daily Catskills: 07/11/15
80F by noon, bright and sunny despite cloud cover roving through at intervals.
© J.N. Urbanski 3.40pm