Hiking - what a favorite topic. And in the last week or so there have been email discussions about hiking - treking out to Seakoli and on down to the Aglar river, up to Deosari, and on up to conquer Nag Tiba. Or other hikes - down to Dehra Doon (Dun?) and back up in a day. Or Scott and others' trip to Dhodital (1958).
Today (2019 Sept 24), in celebration of Jim R's birthday yesterday, I add a video of the hiking song
Now the boring background to what stimulated this post -- The emails originally were about the hike to Dehra Doon, with David S. replying to Gil's message on the Woodstock Rules that required getting prior permission from a family in Dehra Doon that they could hike down there - and that David and other Doon hikers had broken that law and not done that.
Even before David's apology, there was an email message from Gil with the Jackson’s
photo of looking at the Ice Cream Cone mountains and the Seokoli gap. (That photo and
another of hikers resting
on the road are also in Hugh’s memorial.)
There are other hiking tales.
Gil
has written about three attempts he did with others to conquer Nag Tiba or
Cobra Hill.
Cobra Mountain 1
Cobra Mountain 1
On the Tales
of the Petrushka web page you will also find David Chance’s Deo Sari
pilgrimage, Jack on Nag Tiba, etc. Even a blog about Lindsay’s and my
climb to NagTiba in 2009. Or you could see other hikes mentioned above, like the Dhodital trip
(1958) by Scott with David C, Jackson, and Hugh.
And
I like the photos of the 1959 Nag Tibba conquerors too.
There are so many other hikes, experiences, and events which cannot be
seen, some that still need to be told or recalled and even recorded, some which
will remain untold, forgotten off in the ether, or nowhere – very pleasant
memories which will likely die with us.
Still what fun!
Finally, for reference about the song - go the Class of 1959 Woodstock site and click on the Woodstock School Songs image on the right hand side - you will see a list (Contents) of the Songs with the Hiking song words and be able to hear the hiking song under the 2001 WOSA Alumni Reunion collection.
