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…. [...]
Sunrise Mountain – Stokes State Forest
October 14, 2012 Leave a Comment
Complete hike details, photos, and video on our Sunrise Mountain page. Well it’s fall foliage season… which can be a complicated game of strategy for hikers looking to hit areas at peak color. “If it was peak last weekend in the Catskills, do I head to Harriman this weekend? or will the foliage be better [...]
Wildcat Ridge – Four Birds, Hawkwatch, Beaver Pond
September 30, 2012 Leave a Comment
It had been over three years since we’d hiked Wildcat Ridge (“Four Birds Trail (south) – Wildcat Ridge“). We had planned to revisit last year and just didn’t get to it. So we chose that for our first hike getting back into the swing of things – I’d been sidelined with a sore foot issue for [...]
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 [...]
Mahlon Dickerson – Highlands, Pine Swamp, Saffin Pond
January 1, 2012 Leave a Comment
For our annual New Years Day hike we ended up at Mahlon Dickerson Reservation. Many people had the same idea, whether it was to take advantage of the unusually mild (low-50s) winter day or maybe getting an early start on a New Years resolution to exercise more. We chose Mahlon because we wanted a moderate [...]
Hartshorne Woods Park
December 29, 2011 1 Comment
Detailed hike info on our Hartshorne Woods page. We took a little time off around the holidays so of course we needed to get some hikes in. Since it was a weekday we wanted a park that was no-hunting (though it is closed a few days in December) plus we didn’t feel like driving far [...]