A lifelong cyclist, Billy Denter owns Overlook Bicycles, manages Team Overlook, leads weekly group rides, maintains bike trails, and advocates for better public cycling opportunities in the Catskills.
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Bill and Patti Rudge are the Catskill Forest Preserve’s power couple; they met in physical agility training. Bill has been instrumental in protecting and preserving the Catskill forest and developing the wilderness for recreation.
Patti was the first female Forest Ranger hired off the civil servant list in New York State. She retired in 2004. Now there is a “whole slew of female forest rangers,” she says.
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Heather Rolland has been known to hike all the Catskill High Peaks in a ball gown. Admittedly, she’s done it to raise money for farmers affected by Hurricane Irene. But she didn’t need much encouragement to get out there again recently on a cold winter day.
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A reviewer for the Sierra Club has written that Leslie T. Sharpe’s book, The Quarry Fox and Other Critters of the Wild Catskills, “enlivens the landscape, imbuing the humble hills and streams of Sharpe’s backyard with wonder and awe.”
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Artist and illustrator Will Lytle was born and raised in West Hurley near the Ashokan Reservoir, next to hundreds of acres of open forest and coastland. “An unrepentant doodler as a kid,” he has spent countless hours capturing the flora and fauna of the region. His work, synonymous with the Catskills, has a loyal fan base.
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