Round Hill & East Mountain



Round Hill & East Mountain, Fahnestock State Park (4/17/2006)
This is the Hike of the Week for 3/9/2004 as described on the NY-NJ Trail Conference website; Hike #11 ("Hubbard Perkins: Round Hill") from the book 50 Hikes in the Lower Hudson Valley; and East Hudson hike #11 ("Round Hill and East Mountain Loop") from the book Take a Hike: New York City (1st edition).
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At Hubbard Lodge

Round Hill looms


Skunk cabbage



Up Round Hill

View south from Round Hill

Sure ... that's a tree

 

Homestead walls abound



Red cedar
 



Blazes inexplicably end


Searching for a blaze
 


View from Round Hill

Following unblazed path


 



First blaze in 30 minutes!


 





 



Moth

Red cedars on Round Hill

Downy Juneberry
 


Climbing Round Hill



Abandoned farm house
 


Inside farm house



Horse drawn tiller
 


On East Mountain

Lunch on East Mountain

Mt. Beacon fire tower

Fishkill Ridge from East Mountain
 




Descending East Mountain

School Mountain Road
 





Tufted Titmouse
 




Fish in stream

Driveway to abandonded estate
 

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