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gozerbrown
Citizen
Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 608
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 11:08 am: |     |
After many years of wanting to try it, I think I'm ready. Can anyone give me any info you think I need to know, especially on where to go? |
Zoesky1
Citizen
Username: Zoesky1
Post Number: 616
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 12:49 pm: | |
I know people who go up to the Rockefeller estates in Westchester -- they say the XC skiiing is great there. I think you take the GW Bridge into Westchester, then it's not much far north of Yonkers. |
algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 2834
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 1:13 pm: | |
The reservation -- if there was snow of course. I recently was speaking with someone who said the CC skiid in the res and I'm thinking of tracking down some used skis -- I love cross country skiing, but haven't done it in years. |
mjc
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Username: Mjc
Post Number: 131
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 1:16 pm: | |
High Point state park had a x-c ski rental concession and some groomed trails a few years ago. |
jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 923
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 3:02 pm: | |
I always go to the Maplewood Country Club. You're not supposed to trespass but no one has ever tracked me down and kicked me off. It's always completely empty and peaceful. I've also gone in the reservation but unless there's a lot of snow you end up skiing over lots of branches and stuff. I've skied Springfield Avenue too. Now that was cool. |
Derek
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Username: Derek
Post Number: 93
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 3:43 pm: | |
I've only x-c once and got the hang of the coordination pretty fast because I was working out with a Nordick track machine around that time. |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 333
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 4:29 pm: | |
If there's enough snow, parts of the reservation can do for an easy and close afternoon. If there's enough snow, the Appalachian Trail section in Stokes State Forest is good. If there's not enough snow, let me recommend Boyce's Corner, NY (near Syracuse) or St-Jean de Matha, Quebec, for the ultimate in East Coast XC skiing. |
ina
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Username: Ina
Post Number: 152
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 6:03 pm: | |
There's wonderful x-country skiing in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The incredulous looks I'd get lugging my skis on the subway alone made it worth it.
The Rockefeller estate I've skied is Pocantico Hills, north of Yonkers; beautiful, but I wouldn't recommend it for a beginner as it's hilly. |
Derek
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Username: Derek
Post Number: 97
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 8:55 pm: | |
As a former Park Sloper, if there's enough snow on the roads surrounding the park, you can get some good snow on the roads that slope down from the park. I've seen the x-country skiers during snowstorms, loving every minute of it. |
DeborahG
Citizen
Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 1162
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 11:11 pm: | |
Fond memries of XC skiing down Washington St. in Hoboken during a snowstorm when we lived there...saw tons of skiers and one guy pulling his (thrilled) toddler in a file drawer with a rope tied to the handle.... |
mjh
Citizen
Username: Mjh
Post Number: 29
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 14, 2005 - 6:44 am: | |
We go to High Point State Park every year and enjoy it a lot. You can rent skis there if needed, the trails are groomed, and there are easy-to-hard trails.
If it would only snow........ |
davel
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Username: Davel
Post Number: 111
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 5:51 pm: | |
Here is the info on High Point State Park, we go there several times a year - except the last 2 years there hasn't been enough snow 
Click on the weather link for conditions.
http://xcskihighpoint.com/
Another place I've been meaning to try is one in the Catskills:
http://www.mtntrails.com/
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