Hiking Tours

HIKING TOURS

Vineyard Hike & Mulled Wine

With Shank’s Mare & Moon Dancer Winery

Sat., Oct. 4, 2008, 11am-2pm

Nov. 8, 2008, 11am-2pm

Meet at Moon Dancer Winery and join Shank’s Mare as we take a wintry hike through the vineyards. Enjoy beautiful countryside and Susquehanna River views as we make our way through the rows of grapevines. We’ll have a hearty lunch with mulled wine by a campfire along the trail, and wrap up our winter outing with wine tastings back at Moon Dancer and a sneak peak to check the progress of the wines maturing in the cellars. If there’s snow on the ground, bring your cross-country skis or snowshoes and we’ll turn our hike into a ski tour!

Fee includes hike/tour, lunch and wine tasting.

Members - $27/Person. Non-Members - $30/Person

Introduction to Geocaching

Oct. 25, 2008, 10:30am-12:30pm

Learn about the new sport of “geocaching” at Shank’s Mare. This worldwide scavenger hunt type activity incorporates information from the worldwide web, with map and compass skills and utilizing a hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) computer. “Team Shank’s Mare” has been enjoying this sport over the winter, and we want to share the fun with you. This clinic will familiarize you with the principles of geocaching, and we’ll practice finding some “caches”. Once you get the hang of this, go out on your own or join us for some of our “Geocaching Rendezvous” scheduled in April where you’ll form teams and navigate our own cache course followed by dinner in “The Rookery”. We’ll supply the materials for this clinic.

Fee: Free Program

Don’t be a Muggle Evening Rendezvous

Saturday, Oct. 11, 2:00-7:00pm

Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008, 2:00-7:00pm

What is a “Muggle” anyway? Besides the Harry Potter reference, a “muggle” is any person who hasn’t tried the new sport of geocaching. Grab your friends or family, form teams of 4-6 people and join us for an afternoon of outdoor geocaching followed by dinner in “The Rookery”. We’ll provide you with the GPS units and basic instruction, and then turn the teams loose to find Shank’s Mare’s hidden caches. You’ll hike through fields and woods in your quest, and log the treasure in each hiding place. The team with the most treasure wins! Collect your prize and compare your adventures over a hearty dinner in “The Rookery”. If you want to familiarize yourself ahead of time with geocaching, come to our free Introduction to Geocaching Clinic on March 8^th. If you have your own GPS unit, you may use it – call us ahead of time and we will make arrangements to email you the cache coordinates just prior to this event.

Fee: Members - $35.00/Person, Non-Members - $39.00/Person

Hikers enjoy a trip through the vineyard at Moon Dancer and a delicious lunch on the trail complete with wine tasting and campfire.