The weekend is looking to be rainy with Hurricane Ernesto moving in. So, I decided to take a day off from work and go up north and do some hiking.
I wanted to do an easier hike than last weekend, so Howie and I did a loop over Weston mountain, Nun-da-ga-o Ridge (Soda Range) and Big Crow mountain. It sounds like a lot, but it's a relatively mild hike. A lot of the climbing is done in the car on a narrow gravel road up to the trailhead. The ridge is relatively low (around 3000 feet), but has a lot of open rock with views of the high peaks to the south. We saw a handful of people in morning, but had the ridge to ourselves for the rest of the afternoon.
Round-trip Distance: 6.0 mi
Elevation Change: 1500 ft
Lost pond
Howie has no fear
Hiking buddies
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Ho, ho, ho ... green Giant
Howie and I did a hike in the Adirondack high peaks today.
It must have been opposite day as the weather up north was better than in Albany. And it's usually the other way around.
We climbed Giant mountain from the north (Rte 9N) which is a long route that not many people take since there are much shorter approaches. The trail was pretty nice though - probably from the little traffic that it sees. In some places, just a narrow foot path passing through open deciduous forests.
While coming back down we met a Canadian couple (Bonjour!) who liked Howie. Except the guy kept calling him Howlee.
Summit Elevation: Giant 4627 ft
Round-trip Distance: 15.2 mi
Elevation Change: 3600 ft
Howie on Owls Head Lookout
Howie near the summit
It's the wind messing up my hair
It must have been opposite day as the weather up north was better than in Albany. And it's usually the other way around.
We climbed Giant mountain from the north (Rte 9N) which is a long route that not many people take since there are much shorter approaches. The trail was pretty nice though - probably from the little traffic that it sees. In some places, just a narrow foot path passing through open deciduous forests.
While coming back down we met a Canadian couple (Bonjour!) who liked Howie. Except the guy kept calling him Howlee.
Summit Elevation: Giant 4627 ft
Round-trip Distance: 15.2 mi
Elevation Change: 3600 ft
Howie on Owls Head Lookout
Howie near the summit
It's the wind messing up my hair
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Huyck Preserve
Howie and I joined a friend from work and his dog Cora to do a hike in the Huyck Preserve. The preserve is located 30 miles south of Albany in Rensselaerville. The first stop on the trail was at a pretty waterfall on Ten Mile Creek. We then took the trail that looped around Lake Myosotis. We also did a short loop around Lincoln pond. The entire walk took around 2 hours.
Waterfall
Dogs enjoying the water
Waterfall
Dogs enjoying the water
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Colden
We have been having some amazing weather lately. So I just had to go do some hiking. I drove up to the ADK Loj this morning with Howie. Our destination this time was Mount Colden, but I thought I would mix it up by doing a loop - through Avalanche Pass, up the back side of Colden and then down the other side and out. We had a picture perfect day and there was a nice cool breeze ... almost felt like autumn was near. We spent around 7 1/2 hours on our Sunday stroll.
Summit Elevation: Mount Colden 4715 ft
Round-trip Distance: 13.3 mi
Elevation Change: 2800 ft
Avalanche Lake
Howie enjoying the breeze
Obligatory summit pic
Summit Elevation: Mount Colden 4715 ft
Round-trip Distance: 13.3 mi
Elevation Change: 2800 ft
Avalanche Lake
Howie enjoying the breeze
Obligatory summit pic
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