Hiking in New Jersey and Beyond
After tooling around our GPS data the other day, I noticed a big empty spot where the Seven Hills and Hillburn-Torne-Sebago (HTS) trails are. Hunh. That meant we likely hadn’t hiked that area since starting to keep our data… circa 2005 or so. (We use Garmin BaseCamp to organize our GPS data, check it out [...]
Headed to Harriman again on yet another unseasonably warm February day. This time is was to Pine Meadow Lake from Kakiat County Park. The last time we’d started from here was back in September of 2007 where we took Suffern-Bear Mountain trail south but had cut it short and bailed off to the power line [...]
Oh Harriman, we adore your wacky place names: Almost Perpendicular, Elbow Brush, Claudius Smith Den… and this moderate to difficult hike takes in all three. [Harriman Trails: A Guide and History is a great source for the origin of place names and park history, along with description and mileage charts of every trail in the [...]
We were poking around our GPS data for Harriman State Park, looking for an area that we hadn’t done and ended up doing a loop from Lake Skannatati. We’d done another route from this trail head in 2006, and oddly, it was on August 13th as well. (Yes, yes, we know, it’s geeky to have [...]
Detailed hike info and directions on our West Mountain, The Timp, Doodletown page. A hike in Doodletown had been on our list for awhile. Years ago we had ended up around that area during one of our pick-a-trail-as-we-go wanderings around Bear Mountain, and realized later we just had skirted the edge of the town. This [...]
Decided to head over to Harriman on a gorgeous nice day (mid 60′s, partly sunny in November!). Just picked a parking area and slapped together a route on the drive up; Harriman is great for that. This route include Tom Jones Mountain, Parker Cabin Mountain, Claudius Smith Den, Sebago Lake and Skenonta Lake. 8.4 miles. [...]
Complete hike details, photos, and video on our Lemon Squeezer page. The Lemon Squeezer is a rock formation on the Appalachian Trail in Harriman State Park, NY. It’s a really interesting and fun section of the trail: The AT goes through an opening created by rocks, then you need to squeeze through a narrow section [...]
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