Complete hike details, photos, and video on our Terrace Pond page. We headed to West Milford with hopes of hitting peak foliage around Terrace Pond. The trails were at peak but it looked like the recent rain had hurried things along more than we expected at the pond and from the viewpoints. Still gorgeous though…. [...]
Harriman – Seven Hills, HTS, Reeves Brook
June 16, 2012 Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Pyramid Mountain – Whale Head, Bear Rock, Kincaid
May 20, 2012 Leave a Comment
The great thing about keeping a Trail Blog is being able to track info about your hikes – but the downside is that it underscores how quickly time passes. I was sure we were just at Pyramid until I noticed that the last entry for it was over a year ago – and that was [...]
Kakiat County Park to Pine Meadow Lake
February 19, 2012 Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Harriman – Almost Perpendicular, Elbow Brush
January 29, 2012 Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Bearfort Mountain – Surprise Lake, State Line, Ernest Walker, AT
October 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
Complete hike details on our Bearfort Mountain- State Line page. The fall foliage maps pointed to the Bearfort Mountain region being at peak color. They were right. The last time we hiked to Surprise Lake there weren’t many leaves on the trees, so we wanted to come back to get photos during autumn. This hike [...]
Norvin Green: Wyanokie High Point, Carris Hill, Buck Mtn.
October 2, 2011 2 Comments
Detailed hike info and directions on our Wyanokie High Point, Carris Hill, Buck Mountain page. Lots-n-lots of views… but also lots of up-n-down on this route. We hadn’t done Wyanokie High Point in about two years so we headed back to Norvin Green (one of the most rugged parks in NJ, and one of our [...]