The Hudson River Watertrail Association

Check it out people! If you really want to have some fun check out www.artonhudson.com where the rubber meets the river!

There is so much to do on the Hudson… we are kayakers, BUT we collect driftwood up and down the river and create “art.” Our start point is Grand View/Nyack and on a day like today Saturday, August 9th when you see only TWO other kayakers it makes ya wonder, “where is everbody!”

So, I ask, where are you people hanging? I invite you to check out the website and get into the groove, we are only 20 miles north of NYC and there is a whole lotta of river up here (or down here if you are in the upper Hudson Valley)!

Look forward to your comments and input.

Rachel

12 Noon at St. Philip’s Church, 1101 Route 9D, Garrison, NY 10524.

All members are welcome, only board members may vote.

Does anyone know of a place in Albany - someone’s backyard would be ok - where we could store a small 5? by 8? kayak trailer for 4 days during the Albany to Manhattan paddle? July 3-6

Here’s your big chance… if you’ve put off joining the HRWA because, well, you couldn’t find the membership form, now there’re no more excuses. Download the form as a fillable PDF today. You can fill out the PDF in your browser, but you’ll still have to print it and mail it, were not 100% online just yet. But unlike most PDF forms you should be able to save the form once you’ve filled it out.

I wanted to toss out a couple reasons how this blog-thing might be useful in case anybody is scratching their heads. Personally it’s all about permanence. About building a record that can last (assuming this time i successfully make backups). if anybody has a category or topic they’d like to see discussed i can create a “top level” page and then put content under that top level. One that comes to mind is boat building.

Another is regional reporting. I encourage folks at different parts of the river to submit stories or even shorter posts talking about what is going on in their areas. Obviously for call-to-action types of issues the email list would be more appropriate, but if people begin contributing here we can begin to build our history of the region and share it with others who might not care to subscribe to an email list.

I can create categories for different regions (or for any other purpose) and then content can be sorted by those categories. If even a small percentage of users submit content here we could grow this website into a useful tool that can bring attention to issues and will persist long after that email has been deleted.

We’re trying the “blog” format one more time.

All users who were registered before have been deleted (this is totally separate from the NYCKayaker email list). So… we invite you to register and post comments, stories, or ask questions.