DSettahr
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I bushwhacked Jenkins Mountain last friday with two other members of the Paul Smiths Outing Club. Jenkins is a small but remote mountain located north of Paul Smiths on the edge of the Visitor's Interpretive Center Property. There is a trail up it but we elected to bushwhack up one of the steeper sections.
There was about a half a foot of snow on the mountain, and the route we took (almost from due south) was fairly steep. We hiked in from the black pond trail head, and started the bushwhack/ascent at the western edge of the beaver pond along the trail as it circumvents the mountain to climb it from the west. There were a few cliffs we had to work our way around to reach the top. Sections were particularly steep and the prickers hampered our efforts a bit, but we made it to the top in about 45 minutes (1.5 hours or so from the trail head). We summitted the mountain a few hundred feet east of the end of the trail. There are cairns marking a heard path that follows the flat summit of Jenkin's, presumably all the way to it's second peak to the east.
We returned to the trailhead via the trail (which is very well marked and easy to follow), completing the entire hike in about 3 hours. If anyone ever decides to climb Jenkins, I highly recomend doing it from the Black Pond Trail head and not the parking lot at the VIC, as you will pass some remote ponds and really nice lean tos. The long pond lean to especially is a nice place to spend the night. Jenkins is a very easy mountain to climb if you follow the trail, but it has enough steep sections and cliffs to make an interesting and challenging bushwhack.
There was about a half a foot of snow on the mountain, and the route we took (almost from due south) was fairly steep. We hiked in from the black pond trail head, and started the bushwhack/ascent at the western edge of the beaver pond along the trail as it circumvents the mountain to climb it from the west. There were a few cliffs we had to work our way around to reach the top. Sections were particularly steep and the prickers hampered our efforts a bit, but we made it to the top in about 45 minutes (1.5 hours or so from the trail head). We summitted the mountain a few hundred feet east of the end of the trail. There are cairns marking a heard path that follows the flat summit of Jenkin's, presumably all the way to it's second peak to the east.
We returned to the trailhead via the trail (which is very well marked and easy to follow), completing the entire hike in about 3 hours. If anyone ever decides to climb Jenkins, I highly recomend doing it from the Black Pond Trail head and not the parking lot at the VIC, as you will pass some remote ponds and really nice lean tos. The long pond lean to especially is a nice place to spend the night. Jenkins is a very easy mountain to climb if you follow the trail, but it has enough steep sections and cliffs to make an interesting and challenging bushwhack.
