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This is the Hike of the Week for 4/24/2003 as described on the
NY-NJ Trail Conference website. Laura is still nursing a strained ankle, so we wanted to keep it short, relatively easy and relatively level. This is
quite an old hike (Daniel Chazin wrote this one up in early 2003), but the hike details remain completely accurate. The NY-NJ Trail Conference is in
the midst of getting an incredible facelift, and I have been working with that amazing team by contributing images for dozens of hikes on that site,
which is targeted for launch in early March. This was one of the hikes that didn't have a photo, so that was an extra incentive to hike this one today.
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 Nature Center & Observatory on hill |
 Steps to the center, which was closed |
 View to Manhattan behind observatory |
 Manhattan skyline |
 The observatory |
 Igneous basalt |
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 Exercise station |
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 Unimpressed deer |
 Trail skirts civilization |
 Water fountain ruin? |
 Octogonal concrete base |
 Stone culvert |
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 Nearby apartment complex |
 Rear entrance to stage of ... |
 ... outdoor ampitheater |
 Concrete tobiggan slide |
 It's about 500 feet |
 View from inside |
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 The very rare Canadian Goose (not) |
 Another exercise station |
 Obstructed view of Great Notch Reservoir |
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 Igneous basalt abounds |
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 Unnamed pond |
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 Side path to quarry |
 View of quarry |
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 West Paterson and Manhattan skyline |
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 Semi-frozen pond |
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 Back to the parking circle |
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