Our home state! Enjoy these photos!
I’ve come back to add captions. I had previously completed nearly all the captions when the program quit on me! Ouch! It’s good to be back on a computer and be able to fill in this gap. These give you a good flavor of thruhiking in New York, start to end (June 29th until July 8th – including a side-trip to New York City).
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- “Patio” – a former thruhiker, provides some big-time trail magic, cooking hot dogs and lots more for hungry hikers.
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- News travels on the trail – lots of us knew that Patio was cooking up a party!
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- Swift at Patio’s trail magic feast
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- The Long Path stretches north/south in NY State – here’s where it crosses the AT
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- I love New York!
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- CLiCK! scrambles across the Palisades Parkway – godd thing it wasn’t rush hour traffic!
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- Our first good look at the Bear Mountain Bridge, over which we’ll cross the Hudson
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- Iron Sergeant and CLiCK! follow the trail into the zoo
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- Walt Whitman statue in Bear Mountain Trailside Zoo
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- … almost to the Big Apple!
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- A couple of cleaned up hikers (with smelly packs) in Grand Central – heading to Melissa and Doni’s for the 4th of July long weekend
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- After our long weekend in NYC, we hiked across the Hudson on Bear Mountain Bridge
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- On the grounds of a monastery/spiritual center, this pavillion is available for hiker camping (had a shower and piped water!)
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- A reminder that these woods used to be less wild!
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- I’ve forgotten the name of this lake, but we reached it just about 15 minutes before the beach closing time! Long enough for a refreshing dip!
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- The RPH Shelter – one of the nicest
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- Stitch and Yak, married thru-hikers we met along the way
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- Another big oak tree
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- At one time, there was a nuclear test facility here. The National Park Service removed it, the water tested 100% safe, so we enjoyed a swim here on a hot day.
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- CLiCK! and the big oak
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- That’s a whopping big oak! (of course, it makes me look even skinnier than I’ve actually become!)
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- Yep! The AT train station – the trail crosses the tracks here, and trains will take you into NY City!
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- Hiker-friendly garden center where we received a resupply package from home, and where CLiCK! enjoyed a shower
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- This road marks the border entering New York state
Hi Long Time,
It’s been a long time; looking forward to seeing you in the fall. Is that Grand Central you’re hiking through?!
Yes, Grand Central, indeed! Tomorrow I’ll be able to get on a real computer and put in those missing captions (and add more photos).
perhaps the vistas wider. More evidence of civilization, too. Are your spirits lifting now that you’re nearly home or are you going to be sad at the end? Little of both I think. Okay, that will be 5 cents! says Lucy. Take care and be nice to the SOBOs.
Hey, Sis! I think the beginning of your comment is chopped off. My spirits are lifting now that the scenery is changing. The beginning of VT was too muddy, but the second half of VT was wonderful, and today we reached NH! I’m in the public library in Hanover right now (Hanover is where Dartmouth is). I think you may be right about getting close to being done, too. The end is in sight (so to speak), and I’ll be a bit sad at the end, but mostly quite happy! This is an adventure that I’ll always have under my belt (which is a bit too loose right now!), so the pleasure of having done it will always be with me. I anticipate real ecstasy on reaching Katahdin and heading for home!