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The trail head at the end of Big Hollow Road is not plowed. It's accessible with 4 wheel drive. The trail is a mess of frozen boot prints....either hard packed snow,icy boot prints, or fine powder over icy rock. We carried our crampons, but it seemed to be a situation where we would be putting...

127 hours I just saw the movie last night (Upstate Films in Rhinebeck) and it was sit on the edge of your chair riveting for most of it. I felt like I was there. He really makes the point over and over that he was a dumb ass for not telling anyone where he was. It was interesting to see his...

I started out a little nervous about this hike. I knew there were cliffs and ledges. It looks relentlessly steep on the topographical map and someone had died up there in 2001. These were our last two mountains to complete the requirements for the 3500 club. We started from the end of Moon Haw...

If I travel west from my house, within minutes Kaaterskill High Peak dominates the horizon. As I travel closer to the river, Overlook with it's tiny tower and Plattekill and Indian Head come into view. The mountains look different every day, sometimes purple and sometimes peaking out from whispy...

moose We saw a moose at the beginning of the month. We had just finished hiking the loop trail to High Falls on the Oswegatchie River (which was amazingly beautiful) and were driving down Route 3. We had just pulled out of the road from Wanakena and the moose was in the back of a big wetland at...

I like the birds......barred owls, pileated woodpeckers, red tailed hawks, chickadees who find you near the summit. I like the sound the leaves on the beech trees make in the winter when the wind blows. I like how ice on the tree branches sounds like wind chimes. I like the sound of running...

The mountain did seem to funnel us down that way. :) Our plan was to head back down to the stream if it looked like anyone was home.

We followed the trail along the Dry Brook past the waterfall to the bridge and started up a little herd path that petered out fairly soon. It was a nice walk through some fairly open woods. The nettles are still alive and there are some prickers, but nothing extreme. We saw a big rock leaning up...

When I was 25 I probably would have taken a friend at their word if they said they were tired and to go on without me. I'm almost 50 and I can't imagine going on without someone. I usually hike with my husband and we stay together. If I'm hiking with a friend we would generally have visual...

gps I'm not too interested in a GPS. I love maps. I read them like a book almost. Really, by the time we go for a hike I can visualize where we are supposed to be on the land. Of course, we are using a compass too. I like knowing the names of the other mountains and the names of the streams. I...

We decided to try something different and started our hike in Mckinley Hollow. It's a nice easy walk to the lean to with two stream crossings, but you could hop right across on the rocks. There wasn't much snow so we just carried our snow shoes. A little ways after the lean to, the trail gets...

We had an absolutely wonderful day. There was perfect snow for snowshoes (2-3 inches of powder over soft packed snow and nice and deep) and it was snowing all day which didn't amount to much in the valley, but it was filling in our tracks on the mountain pretty quickly. There were no tracks...

We hiked Graham from Millbrook Road. The trail was broken the day before. We didn't put on snowshoes until the turnoff for Graham. There was powder over kind of irritating crusty snow and ice. This is a pretty easy trail since you gain a lot of elevation driving up the road to the trail head...

I just look forward to every step really, even when it's knee deep in snow (and yes I am wearing snow shoes):). Last week we took a little walk by the Hudson River and saw a blue bird sitting on a winterberry bush. I just hold that stuff in my mind to give me strength to get through the rest of...

mittens I have mittens that I knitted myself that I wear hiking in the winter. They aren't felted, but double knit. You use 2 different colors of wool and knit them in a pattern and the yarn gets carried over on the inside of the mitten, so it's extra thick. Any wool is going to shrink and get...

coyotes/cape breton island np I've hiked on the trail where the young girl was killed. It's not a remote place in the park beyond the fact that the park itself is remote. It was kind of an easy trail along a knife edge kind of ridge looking down at the ocean. It's a beautiful place and there...

We started from the trail head at Denning. The parking lot was full, but it was mostly people camping along the Neversink River. This is a really beautiful and special place. The bridge over the river is not as scary as it looks, but I'm not sure how scary it would be in the winter. We met a...

We hiked up Vly from the end of Halcott Mt. Road. It's a beautiful drive to Prattsville with fields and fields of goldenrod. The road goes up and up and we were surprised by a small pickup truck driving down the mountain road since it's pretty rough. We found a road killed weasel which was a...

hiking plans We started out telling our daughters (21 and 26) where we were going, just the name of the mountain and not to expect a call before dark because we have headlamps and there is no cell phone reception in the valleys in the Catskills. They proceeded to worry anyhow and drive us crazy...

ticks An engorged deer tick is still pretty small and not necessarily noticeable unless you are really looking. I had Lyme once. I had a huge bulls eye rash behind my knee. I never noticed a tick. My husband had a bulls eye rash in his groin and flu symptoms and never noticed a tick. We never...