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Sunday, January 7. 2018

Rus in Urbe: Central Park in the snow

From our annual winter NYC  weekend of theater and museum shows on our list. Also hiked 3 miles in a windy 5 degrees, briskly, after an early hour in the hotel's gym.


One of the better sledding hills in the park.  Better than it looks from my iphone pic. 



More Central Park pics below the fold - 


 Urban hiking along 5th Ave.









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I can tell you from experience it is a very fine sledding hill.
#1 vanderleun on 2018-01-07 21:32 (Reply)
Looks like fun! Alas, I don't know much about urba. I know more about rus (but still not much). There is a book by that title, that I once blogged about here.
#2 The Switchel Philosopher (Link) on 2018-01-08 01:12 (Reply)
Psst...

It's rus in urbe.
#3 JJM on 2018-01-08 05:30 (Reply)
Thanks... your photos have enough wintry beauty to make me nostalgic for Manhattan.

And they show just enough yucky grey slush to dispel that nostalgia.

Winter in Tel Aviv means switching to long sleeve shirts and getting out my Goretex rain shell.
#4 Ben David on 2018-01-08 14:51 (Reply)
Yesterday was also a nice day for an outing in rus (northern Vermont), and I got to thinking about backcountry recreation in general. It seems to be a burgeoning trend. The outing and the ruminations led to two blog posts: Backcountry Recreation, Part 1 and Backcountry Recreation, Part 2.

BD, in July you did a nice post about Mount Mansfield, and mentioned that you have skied Stowe. If you are interested, my Part 1 post includes a link to a fascinating story about an ascent of Mount Mansfield from the Stowe side by one Alden Partridge in 1818. A year later, in 1819, he founded Norwich University, the oldest private military school in the country. He was quite a character.
#5 The Switchel Philosopher (Link) on 2018-01-08 15:28 (Reply)
Did you two go to see the da Vinci exhibit?
#6 Phillip Moss on 2018-01-09 01:09 (Reply)

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