We hike three times per week.
Sundays …………. 9:40 – 11:40
Saturdays ………. 9:30 – 11:30
Wednesdays …… 9:30 – 11:30
Informal: No rules • No hike leaders • No dues or membership lists
Plus: No jockeying of cars • All ages welcome • Dogs welcome
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More hike photos
The hikers — who’s who
- Current hikers. Photos and names of the hikers who became active on the trail after the pandemic ended. Coming before too long
- The core group – 2012 to 2019, until just before the pandemic hit. Hows to access these photos: The page has more than 130 photos on it, but only the first 99-100 usually display initially. To view the rest, click the last thumbnail that’s displayed. You will get a large high-res version pop-up. Then go back one step — return to the full array. The remaining 30+ photos will have loaded and can be viewed. To read the person’s name, click on the thumbnail to activate the high-res pop-up. Click here.
- The early hikers – 2004 to 2012. Click here
Action photos from various hikes between late 2009 and late 2016. Click here
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Brief background of the Ithaca Hikers
The group started in the late 1990s with a small group of friends who began to hike the FLT every Sunday.
In the summer of 2004, Stephen and Susan Hesse took over coordination of the group, about a year after they’d moved to Ithaca from NYC. They expanded the number of hikes to three a week over the years, and oversaw the development of the Ithaca Hikers web site, which was created for free by hiker Julie Manners, a very talented graphic designer.

In the summer of 2020 they gave up coordinating, and Jim Rolfe, an Ithaca native, took over