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This is Shawangunk hike #1 ("Millbrook Mountain")
from the book
Take a Hike: New York City (1st edition) and is also
the Hike of the Week for
10/30/2003
as described on the NY-NJ Trail Conference website.
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 On West Trapps Connector Trail |
 Near the Trapps Bridge |
 Trapps Bridge |
 Steep ascent on Millbrook Ridge trail |
 View north |
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 Scrambling up ... |
 ... Shawangunk Conglomerate |
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 View from Hawk's Watch |
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 View of the Trapps |
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 Smiley Tower on Sky Top |
 Route 44/55 |
 View SE |
 300 foot drop |
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 View east |
 Farm near New Paltz |
 Fall foliage |
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 Trapps and Sky Top |
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 Middlebrook peak in rear |
 Part of ridge trail was re-routed |
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 Another climb to the top |
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 View west |
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 Expansive view north |
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 Catskills on horizon |
 Vast boulder field below |
 Boulder field 300' below |
 View north |
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 View east with boulder field |
 Close-up of boulder field |
 Laura taking ... |
 ... this photo [photo by Laura] |
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 Our magnificent lunch spot |
 Coxing trail head |
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 Blueberry bushes on Coxing trail |
 Coxing Kill |
 Old growth on Coxing trail |
 Boardwalks on Coxing |
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 Sassafras leaf |
 Trapps Road looking west |
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 Trapps Road looking east |
 Stormy clouds |
 On Trapps Road |
 Rock formations on Connector trail |
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