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 |
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Skunk cabbage |
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Up Round Hill |
View south from Round Hill |
Sure ... that's a tree |
Homestead walls abound |
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Red cedar |
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Blazes inexplicably end |
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Searching for a blaze |
View from Round Hill |
Following unblazed path |
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First blaze in 30 minutes! |
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Moth |
Red cedars on Round Hill |
Downy Juneberry |
Climbing Round Hill |
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Abandoned farm house |
Inside farm house |
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Horse drawn tiller |
On East Mountain |
Lunch on East Mountain |
Mt. Beacon fire tower |
Fishkill Ridge from East Mountain |
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Descending East Mountain |
School Mountain Road |
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Tufted Titmouse |
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Fish in stream |
Driveway to abandonded estate |
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