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The "fall guy"? After all you are a bit of a landscape goat. You never shy away from doing your own stunt / leg work to produce great photos -- which is perhaps the only crime of which you are guilty. As usual an enjoyable TR with beautiful eye candy photos.

I do not know. Don't do donuts anymore. Except for that dinky donut in my trunk. I mean wasn't there a First Lady campaign against them? Just say no to donuts, or something like that. Then someone conjectured that they had surreptitiously renamed a WMNF summit after her; and it all became...

Indeed it was. I was not there, but two local newspapers were: Poughkeepsie Journal photo gallery Middletown Times Herald-Record photo gallery

Perhaps because he could not stop recapitulating. BTW, nice report and photos. Beautiful meadow views.

cooperhilll and grouseking , I believe it is Sheep Laurel (Kalmia angustifolia) rather than Bog Laurel (Kalmia polifolia). The flowers of Bog Laurel are at the end of stems. On Sheep Laurel the stems terminate with leaves, and the clusters of blossoms are further back from the terminal leaves...

I am familiar with the area. Despite the news reports and quotes of some rescue workers; there are no marked or maintained "hiking trails" in the area where the two recent deaths occurred. There are only unmarked paths which are used by ice climbers in the winter and view seekers in other...

Great TR and photos. Having grown up in Michigan we visited the Sleeping Bear Dune several times on summer vacations. That was before the National Lakeshore was established and before all these nice boardwalks were built. I use to love the sand scramble up the main dune at the old State Park...

:cool: Awesome report and accomplishment. No need to apologize for the photos you posted. I am always amazed that all you speed demons have time to take any photos on these fast treks. That is funny. But all trails change, and the new PA is effectively the new trailhead. At one time the...

Yup, it is St Anne's Peak, a.k.a. Piss Me Off Peak (dubbed by a Devil's Path in a day hiker who is also a member of this hiking board). So you also now have a start on the Catskill Hundred Highest list. :D I agree that it is a good thing that the trail is well marked as it is one one those...

Beautiful uses of light. Great moments in time and place beautifully captured. It has often been summarized as: f/8 and be there. And of course being there is the most important part of the equation. Well done!

I cannot comment with any knowledge on moose scat. However, there have been scattered stories of bull moose passing through the Catskills. I have heard perhaps 1-2 moose sightings in the Catskills per decade. There were a few Catskill moose sightings in 2005 that were discussed in this VFTT...

Webshots has a blog in which this was discussed a couple of times. You may subscribe to daily or weekly updates of this "Webshots blog" here. Generally there is not a daily blog update, so if you subscribe to it daily you will only receive the email alerts when the blog is updated. A couple...

That was one of those days (30 years ago on a Sunday) when you are likely to still remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard the news. I was hiking Tremper and Carl mountains on a low cloudy day in the Catskills, photographing some of the gnarly trees in the fog. I heard...

I suspect everybody's metabolism is a bit different, It is a matter of finding what works best for you. YMMV and all that. So we should all take any recommendations (especially my out of the mainstream regimen) with some grains of salt. I begin every morning (hiking or not) by drinking enough...

Colgate Lake primitive camp sites and Catskill maps Similar to the free primitive camping sites near Sundown that daxs mentioned; free campsites are available on state land near Colgate Lake. Colgate Lake is approximately midway between the North Lake area and the Blackhead Range in the...

Choose the telephoto lens. I will keep this nontechnical. When you do a severe crop you are throwing away large amounts of you camera's sensory capability. That is true whether you are using a digital (as opposed to an optical) zoom, or if you are cropping with software on your computer. It...

Very nice report and photos, as usual. I do not know the geology of these specific peaks either, but perhaps they shared a plutonic relationship. ;)

I agree with Alan/Peakbagr. Easily 99% of the raptors that you see soaring on the air currents in the Catskills are Turkey Vultures. The undersides of their wings have white tips. While soaring their wings form a wide V (although not a sharp angle). V is for vulture. Whereas the wings of...

Now this is a stab from the past. Caldor also had the "go to" sporting goods, book, and music departments here in Kingston NY at that time. I bought a lot of rather generic hiking gear there in the 1970s and early 1980a. That was before any of the really big box stores moved into the area...

Great detailed report and nice photos. Happy birthday. As you did a day hike; I assume that you must have previously camped here as part of your New York lean-to quest. I agree with your assessment and your clockwise direction recommendation. The first time I hiked the loop in the 1970s I...