I spent much of the day doing final editing on a DVD of my mentor Paul Petzoldt telling some his best stories. I've been working on this for over a year and I think it is pretty close to production quality. Here's a photo of the DVD jacket cover. Hopefully it will be available soon.
Jack Drury
via Droid
My view of the McKenzie Wilderness on the way home from Malone late this afternoon.
Taken with my Droid.
Attending the Institute for Learning Centered Education board meeting in Syracuse.
Here’s the Drury – Ellsworth Annual Newsletter and its only a year late!
It is in PDF so you can enlarge it as much as you would like to see the photos and it has hot links so you can see more photos or learn more about the various topics.
Enjoy!
Here’s a link to an article I contributed to that talks about emergency winter shelters. http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2009/12/emergency-snow-shelters.html
NCCC-WRLP Reunion - 2009
Thirty former students and staff took part in two evenings of reunion activities November 13 & 14 here in Saranac Lake. As founding program director I worked with Stefanie Kearns current director of the program to organize the activities. A reception was held Friday night hosted by the Waterhole #3 and WRLP graduate Brendon DeVito (02) with nearly twenty people attending. Former student and adjunct faculty member Eric Holmlund (91) shared a 1984 WCFE Public TV video about the WRLP featuring me and Duane Gould (84). Amazingly neither of us have aged in the 25 years since the filming of the show. 
Brendon was a great host and a few of s stayed until 12:30 then headed back to Mark Twain Camp for a soak in the hot tub before calling it a night.
Saturday was rainy but it didn’t keep me, Steve Campbell, Mark Simon, Carol Zimmerman, Zach Zalocha, Fiona Hopkins and her companion Doug from taking a hike up Dewey Mountain in the rain. The afternoon was spent playing Zach’s board games with the Holmlund children. In the evening sixteen of us gathered at Hohmeyer’s Lake Clear Lodge for a wonderful unique fusion cuisine of Adirondack & Old World blends. Great appetizers, great beer and wine, great entrees, and a great dessert made for a outstanding meal. What was most valued was the camaraderie. Catching up on each others’ lives and sharing memories and photos made for a memorable evening. I thank everyone for coming and look forward to another one in five years.
Attended Friday and/or Saturday Night
Joe Dadey, Gregg Dahlen, Brendan Devito, Jack & Phyliss Drury, Steve Campbell, Doug and Jan Fitzgerald, Todd Fuchs, Marc and Sarah Galvin, Duane Gould and Joanne White, Kim (Massari) and Eric Holmlund, Fiona Hopkins and her companion Doug, Brandi Huff, Moss McCurdy, Brian and Grace McDonnell, Dave & Debbie Meade, Matt Rothamel, Mark & Kathy Simon, Zoe (Sipos) and Jason Smith, Zach Zalocha, Carol Zimmerman
This is an excellent article!
http://eastwickpress.com/news/2009/10/desperate-hours-for-two-grafton-hikers/
If you EVER hike in the outdoors this is must reading. It explains what can happen on that short day hike when you aren’t properly prepared and why you should ALWAYS take the ten essentials with you.
My 10 essentials list for day hikes includes:
I haven’t had time to write much lately. Between catching up on paperwork here in the office, working in Rensselaerville, Albany, and here in Saranac Lake and big game hunting season up here in the northern zone I’ve been extremely active.
In mid October I helped facilitate the annual retreat for Parent To Parent of NY. I’ve been working with the fine people of Parent To Parent since the fall of 2002 and most recently have been helping them develop a strategic plan. This year’s retreat focused on three things:
It was a successful 2-day event with all the outcomes being addressed. I really enjoy working with the folks of Parent To Parent. They all have children with special needs and have had more than there fair share of life’s challenges to deal with yet are an extremely upbeat group helping others to deal with similar issues.
After a fun week of muzzleload deer hunting (one deer for the three of us) here in the Adirondacks I spent the first week of November working with the Capital Region BOCES on the 3-day Part B of a Critical Skills/SPEC Institute. The group was exclusively made up of vocational teachers and they embraced the CS/SPEC model and had some very positive experiences implementing it in their various disciplines. (Nursing, Business, Criminal Justice, and Construction) It was a great group to work with and it is fun to see teachers find such success in their classroom. Outcomes for the Institute include:
This past week I hunted for about 4 days without any luck and attempted to catch up on paperwork. In addition I have had and have scheduled a number of exciting meetings about issues I hope to share more about in the future.
Finally this weekend will be a celebration of the 30th anniversary of North Country Community College’s Wilderness Recreation Leadership Program. Approximately 25 people will be coming to town to share memories of their experiences at NCCC. It should be fun.
