Fishkill Ridge (8/18/2006) This is East Hudson hike #10 ("Fishkill Ridge") 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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Overlook trailhead |
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View of Beacon |
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Newburgh Beacon Bridge |
Barge on the Hudson |
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Overlook trail |
Abandoned boundary walls |
Tiny toad |
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Hudson looking south |
DAR Monument on North Beacon Mountain |
View from atop Lambs Hill |
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View northwest |
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Blueberry bushes |
Another tiny toad |
At Dozer Junction |
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Lake Valhalla, Hudson in rear |
Hudson, with West Point on right |
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Lake Valhalla |
Looking south |
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View southeast |
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Quarry east of Bald Hill |
View east from Fishkill Ridge |
Working the quarry |
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Large yellow X on the ridge |
X marks the spot for lunch |
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View south from the ridge |
Trailer park east of the ridge |
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Fishkill Ridge trail |
View south from Bald Hill |
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Bald Hill geodetic survey reference |
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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 |
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Mt. Beacon fire tower |
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Newburgh Beacon Bridge |
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View of Beacon, NY |
Back on Overlook trail |
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Praying mantis |
Elusive |
Path to Malouf's Mountain Camping |
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