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Good idea. Perhaps with some VFTT notebooks which are small enough to fit into summit canisters along with a VFTT pencil. :cool: The only problem with all of this is that they would disappear from canisters and trail registers. :eek::D

You find similar stone fences and stone house ruins all over southern New England, southern New York, Pennsylvania, and points to the south. These were areas where settlers tried to make a go at farming on thin and/or poor soils. The stone fences were built as much to clear the fields of...

See Tom's post above for the link to the Catskill 3500 Club website. That web page identifies the 13 peaks with canisters, and these are trailless peaks (without any maintained or unmaintained trails). Cornell, Wittenberg, and Slide don't have canisters because they are peaks with maintained...

This has been a great thread. Thanks for all the images and information. Thanks for that link, grouseking. I suspect these two images of a fire tower near the Hudson River and Catskills show examples of altocumulus undulatus clouds. They show the circular ripple wave effect (click for larger...

The Black Creek Preserve is a nice place to hike. Looks like the eagle has a fish in his talons. Perhaps it is a shad which come up the river to spawn in April and May. It is always interesting when you bushwhack through the wilds up a mountain only to find ATV tracks and tales of easy paths...

My maternal grandfather was French Canadian with some "First Nation" ancestry. However, he crossed the big pond to Michigan long before 1948. So there will be no Canadian passport nor checks forthcoming for me. Yes, the terms have changed several times and may again. I remember attending a...

Thanks, it is also on the same page in the 12th edition (1999). I suppose a hamster in the Town of Hampstead may be a reference to the children's book The Hamster of Hampstead Heath, although the story appears to be set in England.

The problems you cite (perhaps sans SUV) appear to be true of most every DeLorme state atlas that I own (about a dozen). I am most familiar with the New York atlas. There are numerous old abandoned roads, carriage roads, logging roads, etc. that appear on the NY atlas, and many of these have...

Speaking of sudden happenings. Are animal crackers invading the avatars of the women of VFTT? Kinda like a sudden Invasion of the Body Snatchers. No doubt animal crackers are more healthy than those cheese puffs that were invading the Katahdin sign thread a short time ago. :D Now I am...

Good suggestions above. You may wish to purchase the Catskill Trails Maps, 5 map set, before arriving. There are concise trail descriptions on the back of each map which provide enough information to plan most hikes in the Catskills. The maps show essentials such as parking areas, water...

One other factor. Photographing with a higher ISO (e.g. 1600) takes more memory than with a low ISO (e.g. 100), up to 33% more IIRC. So if you shoot in low light and use a higher ISO for some photos, you will also use more memory. On several day hikers I have filled a 4G card with images...

Nice report. Bearpen is a much under-appreciated mountain IMHO. It is one of my favorite Catskill mountains in late summer and early autumn when the blackberries and huckleberries are ripe. Bearpen and the 3440' Roundtop Mountain (on the ridge just north of the highpoint on Ski Run Road) have...

Nice report and photos of one of my favorite Hudson Valley hikes. I also enjoyed the photos of the two attractive and awesome Aussies. They both seemed to enjoy the hike. Both Mount Taurus and Breakneck Ridge are named after a legendary runaway bull from the colonial days. He had escaped...

Yes, I believe that is the general consensus of Catskill hikers. Although this standard is not a particularly high bar given the rounded, forested summits of many of the trailless peaks. Bearpen is among the best view competitors; owing to several viewpoints just north of the summit area at...

Yes, most of the Catskill hikers have migrated to the Catskill sections of the ADKHighPeaks.com forums. That has offloaded most of the Catskill discussion to that other site, freeing up some bandwidth and disk space on VFTT. But as our New England cousins occasionally hike in the Catskills...

Nice report and photos, Alan and Joanne. Vroman's Nose is among my favorite short hikes. It has been several years since I last hiked there, and it appears that the maintainers have added quite a few nice informational signs and a bench. Those overhanging cliffs make for some great photo...

For many hikes on sunny days I carry no tripod. Many photos can be hand held. Where needed I use all of the makeshift support techniques already mentioned. I occasionally carry a bean bag, but a spare article of clothing can also be used for support in conjunction with trees, rocks, etc. If...

Arrrgh! 50degFs with rain are a real possibility for Friday in the Catskills also. So Saturday might be potato soup. Hopefully after a dump of snow on Sunday conditions for early next week might be OK. But warmer temperatures with rain are in the forecast again for late next week. All of...

Jim, A good TR with some fine notes on your photographic experience. Despite your frustrations with the flat light; I do think there is some charm in the afterglow photo down the notch.

Welcome to the forum. All three are very good photos. I am perhaps most partial to the last for its great light and nice fall colors. The Carrigain pano also has a very austere, almost unearthly look which I like very much. I believe the first photo may be the weakest of the three because of...