Another summer weekend in New York, another struggle to find a good hiking trail and even more struggle to find transportation to trail head. Well, for this weekend, I have to say I was quite impressed by what New York had to office (yes, you read it right, I used impress and New York together). We went for a 9 - 10 mile hike at Harriman State Park. To get there, we tool a train from Hoboken to a place called Tuxedo, NY. It took us about an hour and a half door to door and was quite comfortable. The trail head starts right at the train station. And there are a lot of trails right there. The maps for these trails are not available anywhere on the net, of course New York, they will suck the money out of you where ever they can. So for the map you have to spend $10 per region. Anyway, I luckily found the map for trail we were looking at, and guess what, copied it on my PDA. So this was a high tech hike, where I was consulting the map on PDA every time we needed direction.
We started on the RD trail, hiked upto Mt ...... From there we tool the yellow triangle trail to go down to the lake, then continued on same to the second lake. On the way back we took Tuxedo-Mt Ivy trail, again red on white. Most of the trail was covered, through forested region, so we did not have that much of a view all the time. There are couple of lookout points from which you can see good vistas, must be great with fall colours. The whole trail was gentle rolling hills, not much of rock scrambling. So we could complete the 9 miles with ease. These are small old hills, seemed like block mountains. What that meant was even if you climb a peak, you are sort of below tree line, so no clear view. I guess the hike was rewarding enough. And we could spend a good 30 min. towards the end relaxing at a view point.
Photos coming soon....