Recent News
Tanager Waterfall
We are delighted to announce our acquisition of 16 beautiful, undeveloped acres in Keene Valley for use by our hiking groups. This acquisition was made possible through the estate of Frances (“Wiggie”) Welch, Tad’s mother, and we dedicate it to her memory.
Recent restrictions on group size in the High Peaks, while designed to lessen the environmental impact of campers in these popular areas, have hindered our ability to staff our trips as fully as we would like. We look forward to expanding our trip offerings by sending groups to the Waterfall, just a short drive from trailheads to the highest mountains in the Adirondacks.
Thanks to Mac Ridge for coming up early in 2006 to help open camp and for joining us in making two campsites at the Waterfall.
The Eagles Are Back
For the second consecutive summer, a pair of bald eagles has taken up residence and is raising young in the huge white pine that towers over the Crow’s Nest.
- Photos courtesy of Glenn Mason
Boats and More Boats
- Photo courtesy of Stephen Hann
We take great pride in our wood and canvas canoes and wooden skiffs and motorboats at Tanager. Our second, third, and fourth generation campers often learn to row and canoe in the same boats their relatives used generations earlier.
Fortunately for us, Steve (“Slim”) Hann, former camper and boatman extraordinaire, continues to share his boat building and repair skills with us. In the past several years, he has recanvassed many canoes, ably assisted at times by Roger Birkhead and J.D. Signom, and done major restorations of the Little Green (our Bellows skiff, a Chateaugay Lake original) and Humphrey’s Skiff (generously donated to camp by Liz Rudolph Rodgers of Pine Lodge).
This season he has been replacing ribs, the transom, and the bow seat in Bell Boat (gift of Gordon Bell) as well as the transom in the Lyman (another gift of Liz Rodgers).