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Snowshoeing with a Porcupine at Happy Valley

Feb 27th, 2011 / 0 Comments

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The following is a report on a three hour snowshoe through the Happy Valley Wildlife Management Area near Parish, NY in the Tug Hill Region. The snowshoe kept to the northern portion of the management area centering around Churchill Road following roughly the same path as my previous snowshoe to the region on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (to read click here). Highlights included following fisher tracks, a porcupine, and snowshoe hare tracks.

Date: February 12, 2011
Length: 1.92 miles
Difficulty: Easy

Day Trips, Snowshoeing

MLK Day Snowshoe on the Tug Hill

Feb 12th, 2011 / 0 Comments

Snow-covered trees

On Martin Luther King Day I decided to spend some of my day off snowshoeing up on the Tug Hill at Happy Valley Wildlife Management Area in Parish, NY. This would be my first snowshoe sojourn of winter due to numerous injuries and illness. I was looking forward to getting out of the suburbs and losing myself in a winter wonderland for an hour or so during the early afternoon hours.

Happy Valley Wildlife Management Area totals 8,895 acres located in eastern Oswego County. Happy Valley offers a varied selection of different habitats due to its history of reforestation and farming activity. Several ponds exist in the area along with upland forests and a variety of wetlands. It is bordered to the north by NY State Route 104 and to the south by Oswego County Route 26.