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). (Click on the thumbnail to bring up a bigger image in a pop-up window)
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Near Hewitt-Butler trailhead |
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First view of Monksville Reservoir |
Fishing in the reservoir |
Kayakers |
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Shore of the reservoir |
Trunks of drowned trees |
Grade of the 19th-century NY & Greenwood Lake Railway |
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Rocky Hewitt-Butler trail |
Antler scratch marks? |
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Indigo Bunting |
Powerlines |
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Dragonfly |
Reservoir fishing |
View from Horse Pond Mountain |
Reservoir wraps around Monks Mountain |
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Sailing |
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Bare face of Horse Pond Mountain |
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Box turtle |
Taking a close-up |
Camera shy |
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Burnt Meadow Trail |
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Dry creek bed |
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Ferns |
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Copperhead near reservoir shore |
View from reservoir shore |
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