First hike of the spring and a nice day.
First hike for Caney since he declined to hike for the first time in his life on Feb 2nd. Even way back in 2000, after loosing 50% of his blood volume 2 weeks before, he summited 2 Catskill 3500 winter peaks in the same day. This was a good hike for him, and also Aimee Bear after her winter of hibernation to stretch the old legs.
Nothing like getting to sleep in till 9am after a winter of 2,3,4,5am starts.
Bumps was still slightly frozen and we actually missed the summit of Sleeping Beauty. I saw a trail marker to the right and proceeded that way and the summit was perhaps a few hundred feet or yards to the left. Oh well, good excuse to go back.
Dacy clearing road is currently closed. So you will have to walk the road. It was passable IMO with 2WD all the way to the horse trail and old foundation (assuming the gate was open). It got significantly muddy, rocky and rutted after this point, and 4WD or AWD with some clearance would be recommended.
Not too pretty out there yet, but the skeleton forest is slowly coming to life.
First hike for Caney since he declined to hike for the first time in his life on Feb 2nd. Even way back in 2000, after loosing 50% of his blood volume 2 weeks before, he summited 2 Catskill 3500 winter peaks in the same day. This was a good hike for him, and also Aimee Bear after her winter of hibernation to stretch the old legs.
Nothing like getting to sleep in till 9am after a winter of 2,3,4,5am starts.
Bumps was still slightly frozen and we actually missed the summit of Sleeping Beauty. I saw a trail marker to the right and proceeded that way and the summit was perhaps a few hundred feet or yards to the left. Oh well, good excuse to go back.
Dacy clearing road is currently closed. So you will have to walk the road. It was passable IMO with 2WD all the way to the horse trail and old foundation (assuming the gate was open). It got significantly muddy, rocky and rutted after this point, and 4WD or AWD with some clearance would be recommended.
Not too pretty out there yet, but the skeleton forest is slowly coming to life.
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