Crow's Nest, Storm King State Park (6/11/2006) This is Western Hudson Hike #16 ("Pitching Point") from the book Take a Hike: New York City (1st edition). (Click on the thumbnail to bring up a bigger image in a pop-up window)
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Bobcat Trail |
Buddha atop tall cairn |
Meditating at tall cairn |
Storm King behind 1999 fire damage |
Skeletons on Howell Trail |
Ascending North Ridge |
Only grass has returned |
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Windy waves of grass |
North Point |
Breakneck Ridge across Hudson |
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View northeast |
Route 293 on Storm King |
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Breakneck Ridge looms over Chalet on the Hudson |
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Fire damage |
Blooming Mountain Laurel |
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Burnt trees at West Point |
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Storm King and Bannerman Castle |
Route 293 and castle |
Newburgh Beacon Bridge & Denning's Point |
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Breakneck Ridge |
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Burnt trees on North Ridge |
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Railroad beneath Storm King |
Early blueberries |
Birch saplings |
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View east to Cold Spring |
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Constitution Marsh in rear |
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Bull Hill across Hudson |
Railroad at Cold Spring |
View south to West Point |
Steep descent |
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Passing train |
Metallic mushroom |
Giant mushroom |
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Stillman Memorial |
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