Fishkill Ridge



Fishkill Ridge (8/18/2006)

This is East Hudson hike #10 ("Fishkill Ridge") from the book Take a Hike: New York City (1st edition).
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Overlook trailhead


View of Beacon


Newburgh Beacon Bridge

Barge on the Hudson


Overlook trail

 

Abandoned boundary walls

Tiny toad


Hudson looking south
 


DAR Monument on North Beacon Mountain

View from atop Lambs Hill


View northwest
 



Blueberry bushes

Another tiny toad

At Dozer Junction
 




Lake Valhalla, Hudson in rear

Hudson, with West Point on right
 



Lake Valhalla

Looking south

 


View southeast



 


Quarry east of Bald Hill

View east from Fishkill Ridge

Working the quarry

 



Large yellow X on the ridge

X marks the spot for lunch

 


View south from the ridge

Trailer park east of the ridge


Fishkill Ridge trail
 


View south from Bald Hill


Bald Hill geodetic survey reference

 



On lower Fishkill Ridge trail

Wilkinson Memorial trail at Hell Hollow

View east from Hell Hollow
 


Back at Dozer Junction

The 'dozer of Dozer Junction

Female field cricket with long ovipositor

View of Dennings Point
 



Mt. Beacon fire tower


 


Newburgh Beacon Bridge


View of Beacon, NY

Back on Overlook trail
 



Praying mantis

Elusive

Path to Malouf's Mountain Camping
 

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