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Beautiful day to be out hiking. Clear and sunny with a high of about 30. We climbed Rusk using the Spruceton trail to the horse shoe turn and bushwacking from there. The trail was hardpacked (and unfortunately had been bare booted when the surface was softer) and some traction aids were needed...

The trail from Route 23 was flooded so I drove around to the Peck road trailhead and hiked from there. The trails were wet and slick from the mud and leaves; but, there was no snow. Got lucky with the weather since all the forecast scattered showers hit while I was in the truck either before or...

Hiked the Devil's path from 214 over the summit to the eastern viewpoint and back. Bare ground until near the first viewpoint; then patchy snow until just past the third viewpoint after which the trail was snow covered almost the entire way. From the depth of some of the postholes left by...

Route Hiked: Trail from Woodland Valley. Weather Conditions: Sunny, high temperature 50F Trail Conditions: Mostly bare ground below the junction with the trail to Terrace Mountain; snow and ice from there; the ledges on the way up to Wittenberg were very icy; the V-notch below the summit of...

Conditions: A fresh dusting of snow at the trail head increasing to about an inch along the ridge. Special Equipment Required: Bare boots worked fine. The snow wasn't hiding any ice so the stabilicers stayed in the pack. Comments: A beautiful day in the woods with the sun and the fresh snow...

We hiked up and back down from the end of Spuceton Road. Apparently no one else had been up Westkill since the last major snow storm as the trail was not broken; however, the older, deep snow had consolidated enough so that we could easily walk on top of it with snowshoes without breaking...