Lemon Squeezer



Lemon Squeezer, Harriman State Park (7/23/2006)

This is Western Hudson Hike #10 ("Lemon Squeezer") from the book Take a Hike: New York City (1st edition) with the addition of a leg of the AT and of the Long Path for a total length of over 4 hours.
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A rainy Appalachian Trail

Curious deer

No longer curious



Morning mist on Green Pond Mountain


 



Water pump overlooking Island Pond

Island Pond
 


Fishing on Island Pond

Kayak launch


Algae on the lake
 





 




Stone spillway built by the CCC in 1934

 


Entrance to Lemon Squeezer

Laura about to enter

View in from the entrance

Laura gets squeezed
 


The width is a maximum of 18"

Dan shimmying through

Dwarfed by the rocks

Slippery climb on wet rocks
 



Looking down on Lemon Squeezer

Sea of grass

 


Still drizzling

Pines

Intersection of AT and Long Path (51.8 miles to GWB)

Mosquito-infested swamp on Long Path
 


Rock-smashing tree

Fields of ferns

Fire damage of White Bar trail

Frog
 



On the Arden-Surebridge trail

Red eft

Red eft
 


Another mosquito-infested swamp

View from Green Pond Mountain


Water break in natural rock shelter
 

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