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This is the Hike of the Week for 12/4/2008
as described on the NY-NJ Trail Conference site. We hiked most of this area (some of the stretches as many as three times) on past hikes but never starting from the Tuxedo
train station and never in a counter-clockwise direction. This hike has everything: mountain climbs, tight squeezes, swamps, cascades, and lots of amazing views. It visits
four denoted vistas on the NY-NJ Trail Conference map for Southern Harriman, and although I named this photo set "Tuxedo Views" there are plenty of views other than of Tuxedo,
mostly of the surrounding mountains in Harriman.
Total distance hiked today was 6.4 miles in about 4.5 hours, with lots of climbing! (Click on the thumbnail to bring up a bigger image in a pop-up window)
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 In Tuxedo with Dater Mt. in rear |
 The Ramapo River |
 Under the NY Thruway |
 Trailhead on Grove Drive |
 Abandoned car on Kakiat |
 Lots of climbing on Kakiat |
 View to Tuxedo |
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 Creek crossing |
 Phragmites on Kakiat |
 Talus slope |
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 Red-tailed hawk |
 He was curious |
 Intersection |
 Climbing Dater Mt on Blue Disc |
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 Climbing Dater Mt |
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 View down |
 [Photo by Laura] |
 Views begin ... |
 ... from ... |
 ... Almost Perpendicular |
 On Almost Perdendicular |
 Reeves Visitor Center in distance |
 [Photo by Laura] |
 Loads of cars (as always) at Reeves |
 View south from Dater |
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 Going still higher |
 View east |
 Heading north on Blue Disc |
 Starting climb ... |
 ... of Pound Mt |
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 View from Pount Mt |
 At Elbow Brush |
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 Checking the rock crevice |
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 Exploring in Elbow Brush |
 On top of it |
 Climbing again |
 No, that's not the Too Much Information trail |
 Claudius Smith Rock |
 Above Smith's den |
 Claudius Smith Rock |
 View south |
 Continuing north |
 Birch saplings |
 Climbing again on Blue Disc |
 View south from ... |
 ... Big Pine Hill |
 Gorp break |
 View east |
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 Descending on Blue Disc |
 Heading north |
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 Rocky descent |
 Black Ash Swamp |
 Along Black Ash Swamp |
 Brook crossing |
 Tiny brook cascade |
 Natural rock dam |
 On Ramapo-Dunderberg trail |
 View downstream |
 Lovely sluice |
 [Photo by Laura] |
 Views west to Tuxedo |
 Opening of Black Ash Mine |
 Gas pipeline looking west |
 Our last viewpoint |
 NY Thruway & Tuxedo |
 NY Thruway |
 Time to eat! |
 Buildings of Tuxedo |
 Our lunch spot |
 Tuxedo train station, etc. |
 Sterling Forest mountains |
 Brick houses on Grove Drive |
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