Long Mountain

Long Mountain, Harriman State Park (3/20/2010)

This figure-8 incorporates the hike of the week for 3/11/2010 as described on the NYNJTC site. It was a gorgeous day today, sunny and in the 70s, and the first hike in two months that wasn't in snow, so we added a 2-mile loop south of the one described in the link above, comprised of sections of the Popolopen Gorge trail, the Anthony Wayne trail, and a woods road. Last weekend the area got hammered with 3 days of heavy rain (rivers are still overflowing in many spots) so we weren't sure what to expect today. The main evidence of the storm were the countless blow-downs, especially on the several unmarked woods roads we traversed today. Otherwise the trails were fine, no flooding at all on the trails we hiked.

Total distance hiked today was 4.3 miles in approximately 3 hours, including lunch at a gorgeous spot on the banks of Turkey Hill Lake, one of the prettiest spots in all of Harriman!

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