Last week we hiked in this WMA in the woods west of Edison Road. Today we returned to hike the abandoned railroad bed of the Ogden Mine Railroad as far as
it goes south before coming into private property just north of Glen Road. It's a beautiful path, nearly 2 miles out and then 2 miles back for a nice, relatively level
4-mile walk in the woods. But instead of retracing the entire railroad bed, on our return we twisted and meandered on woods road (many of which are not on NYNJTC
Trail Map 126) in the section east of the railroad bed adding two more miles, with a bit of elevation gain.
Total distance today was 6 miles in just over 3 hours.
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Entrance to Edison trail |
Fresh rain drops |
Taking previous pic [photo by Laura] |
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Climbing to RR bed |
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Ties of RR bed |
A spike! |
Beautiful green path |
Another spike |
Ties still in place |
Crossing Edison Road |
RR bed south of Edison Road |
Beautiful cut |
It was misty in the cut |
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Interesting spider web |
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Log balancing |
Heading south |
Two spikes |
Mushrooms |
How did that grow? |
RR bed is elevated high in parts |
Mine off trail |
Frog in mine |
Mine from other side |
Mine frog |
Another mine frog |
Another spike on path |
Giant lichen (compare to ferns) |
Tiny eft hiking the RR bed |
Tiny bright red mushrooms |
Ties thrown to the side |
Powerline cut |
Red-tailed hawk on pylon |
Passing through Mountain Laurel |
Downed tree hopping [photo by Laura] |
Very narrow path |
Private pond at end |
Taking a tiny breather |
Heading back north |
Following an unofficial white path |
Climbing on "white" |
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More mushrooms |
Woods road intersection |
Big boulders off RR bed |
Huge tree mushrooms |
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Boulder on RR bed |
Downy woodpecker |
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Remains of ? at end of woods road |
New trees from dead trunk |
Life is unstoppable |
Creek |
Concrete pipes |
Bright lichen |
Beautiful lawn of ... |
... big mansion off woods road |
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Very short Edison Road walk |
Stone lanes of ... |
Edison Mine storage facility |
Climbing in ... |
... to have a look |
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