Raccoon Brook Hill & Diamond Mountain



Raccoon Brook Hill & Diamond Mountain, Harriman State Park (8/16/2008)

This is the Hike of the Week for 10/7/2005 as described on the NYNJTC website.
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Behind Reeves Visitor Center

The rocky Pine Meadow Trail

Boulders in Stony Brook

Stony Brook





 

Tiny mushroom



Climbing Raccoon Brook Hill
 


Rock ledge of Raccoon Brook Hill


Ladder on Raccoon Brook Hills trail

Changing batteries [Photo by Laura]
 


View from Raccoon Brook Hill

View SW

View NW

On Raccoon Brook Hill
 


Grasshopper giving birth?

View east


 



Poached Egg trail

Pine Meadow Road West

Fishing on Pine Meadow Lake
 


Lake through trees

Pine Meadow Lake


Lily pads on lake
 





 



Pine Meadow Road West

Dan at lake [photo by Laura]

Beginning climb of Diamond Mountain
 


Other hikers on Diamond Mountain

View of Pine Meadow Lake

Turkey vulture

 




Lunch on Diamond Mountain

Intersection on ridge
 



The descent


Chipmunk
 



Ridge of Halfway Mountain

Kakiat trail

 


Parallels Stony Brook



Back to Pine Meadow trail
 

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