Horse Pond Mountain



Horse Pond Mountain, Long Pond Ironworks State Park (6/16/2007)

This is hike #29 ("Horse Pond Mountain Loop") from the book Hiking the Jersey Highlands (1st edition).
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Near Hewitt-Butler trailhead





First view of Monksville Reservoir

Fishing in the reservoir

Kayakers

 


Shore of the reservoir

Trunks of drowned trees

Grade of the 19th-century NY & Greenwood Lake Railway
 



Rocky Hewitt-Butler trail

Antler scratch marks?

 


Indigo Bunting

Powerlines


 



Dragonfly

Reservoir fishing

View from Horse Pond Mountain
 


Reservoir wraps around Monks Mountain



Sailing
 



Bare face of Horse Pond Mountain


 




Box turtle

Taking a close-up
 


Camera shy



Burnt Meadow Trail
 



Dry creek bed


Ferns
 





Copperhead near reservoir shore
 


View from reservoir shore



 

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