Sign Removal
Spring has seemingly sprung, and that means we are wrapping up our winter projects and beginning to plan for the upcoming summer field season. With the conclusion of winter, our “Nature at Your Fingertips” winter trails cell phone tour signs are coming down off the trail and will be stored away until fall. We’ll be posting more updates soon on how this year’s tour went and what cell phones tours will be going up elsewhere in our area.
Read MoreWinter Trails Fun
This weekend is going to be a B-E-A-Utiful one for all that enjoy getting outdoors during this time of year in Chautauqua County! With the latest storms passing through from the Midwest this week, there is ample snow for everyone to play in. While you are out this weekend, enjoying the deep snow throughout the county, take a moment to check out these little blue Snowy Owl signs scattered across the snowmobile trails. Many of these signs are placed at trail junctions, road crossings and trail heads, and each tell a stellar story about the natural history or a historical happening at each...
Read MoreWinter Weekend Fun
This past weekend the sun was shining and the snow was smooth on the trails throughout Chautauqua County, providing excellent conditions to be outside on either machine powered or self powered modes of transportation. My husband, father and I all jumped on our snowmobiles and took a ride through the area, enjoying the snowy forests, snow covered ponds and whitened glassy fields providing us with a beautiful view everywhere we went. While we were out we also stopped at some of RTPI’s “Nature at Your Fingertips” cell phone tour stops, giving us a closer look at the...
Read MoreLet it Snow!
This storm looks promising for all of us that have been patiently waiting for more snow. Snowmobile trails have yet to open this season and so we have all been doing our snow dances in hopes of being able to get out for a ride and use the newly expanded “Nature at Your Fingertips” snowmobile cell phone tour spread across Chautauqua County. The trails need about 12 inches of snow to compact down to 3 inches of base using the clubs large fleet of groomers. So let’s keep our fingers crossed and as always, be safe and have fun in this winter wonderland! Elyse Henshaw...
Read MoreStories From Cherry Creek
As winter approaches we have been busy researching sites for Roger Tory Peterson Institute’s cell phone tours. This season we have added Cherry Creek Sno-Goers’s trails to the tour, amongst the other clubs. As a consequence I, who live in the Cherry Creek area, have been getting to know a few of my neighbors better and discovering interesting stories about our neighborhood. One day Clyde Rodgers, owner of the local Cherry Creek business Rodgers and Sons Farm Equipment Supply, took Elyse, I and Cherry Creek historian Sharon Sweeting on a bumpy four wheeling drive into Nichols Gulf just...
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