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There was about 3-6 inches of powdery new snow. We wore microspikes. It started drifting just at the lean to and we stopped there for tea/lunch and got pretty cold pretty quick and decided to head down. There was a trail from the Pine Hill Lake area that wasn't on our map and another red marked...

The trail was either running water or patchy ice. We wore microspikes on and off. There were a lot of large hemlocks down, but cleared from the trail. There was one sketchy stream crossing at the beginning that we crossed on a downed tree. Access to the bridge below the falls was difficult due...

I can't wait to go back and hike this again in June once the laurel are flowering and then I guess again in July when the blueberries are ripe.......what a pretty place and we didn't even have great views since it was a hazy day. The trail up is on an old road along the Kanape Brook most of the...

We've been hiking the "other" mountains in the Catskills for awhile now, but I was so excited to get my signed copy of The Other 67 at the dinner. Alan Via wrote a wonderful book. We decided on E.Wildcat because we had a late night Friday and wouldn't be getting an early start. We got the last...

After reading the Jay H had recently climbed Stissing Mountain, I decided that some of you might be interested in all my accumulated trivia about the mountain since I grew up in Pine Plains. There used to be a cabin until the late 1970's when some kids skipping school burned it down. I...

The parking area at the end of Barnum Road is plowed. We put our snowshoes on in the parking lot. I carried my microspikes, but only because they are brand new and I haven't had a chance to use them yet, not because I actually thought we would need them. They were jingling like bells on my pack...

The trail head at the end of Big Hollow Road is not plowed. It's accessible with 4 wheel drive. The trail is a mess of frozen boot prints....either hard packed snow,icy boot prints, or fine powder over icy rock. We carried our crampons, but it seemed to be a situation where we would be putting...

I started out a little nervous about this hike. I knew there were cliffs and ledges. It looks relentlessly steep on the topographical map and someone had died up there in 2001. These were our last two mountains to complete the requirements for the 3500 club. We started from the end of Moon Haw...

If I travel west from my house, within minutes Kaaterskill High Peak dominates the horizon. As I travel closer to the river, Overlook with it's tiny tower and Plattekill and Indian Head come into view. The mountains look different every day, sometimes purple and sometimes peaking out from whispy...

We followed the trail along the Dry Brook past the waterfall to the bridge and started up a little herd path that petered out fairly soon. It was a nice walk through some fairly open woods. The nettles are still alive and there are some prickers, but nothing extreme. We saw a big rock leaning up...

We decided to try something different and started our hike in Mckinley Hollow. It's a nice easy walk to the lean to with two stream crossings, but you could hop right across on the rocks. There wasn't much snow so we just carried our snow shoes. A little ways after the lean to, the trail gets...

We had an absolutely wonderful day. There was perfect snow for snowshoes (2-3 inches of powder over soft packed snow and nice and deep) and it was snowing all day which didn't amount to much in the valley, but it was filling in our tracks on the mountain pretty quickly. There were no tracks...

We hiked Graham from Millbrook Road. The trail was broken the day before. We didn't put on snowshoes until the turnoff for Graham. There was powder over kind of irritating crusty snow and ice. This is a pretty easy trail since you gain a lot of elevation driving up the road to the trail head...

We started from the trail head at Denning. The parking lot was full, but it was mostly people camping along the Neversink River. This is a really beautiful and special place. The bridge over the river is not as scary as it looks, but I'm not sure how scary it would be in the winter. We met a...

We hiked up Vly from the end of Halcott Mt. Road. It's a beautiful drive to Prattsville with fields and fields of goldenrod. The road goes up and up and we were surprised by a small pickup truck driving down the mountain road since it's pretty rough. We found a road killed weasel which was a...

We started from Platte Clove Road. The trail follows an old road to a designated snow mobile trail that circles around the mountain and Roundtop at about 3000 feet. The trail is a gradual climb and after about the first 15 minutes a squirrel jumped out a tree right behind us on the trail. I've...

This wasn't really a hike because we were taking a walk down the rail road tracks to go striper fishing off the rail road bridge, but it's such a great place that I thought it might be interesting for people to read about. We drove down the access road from the Bard College campus and parked...

We headed to Prattsville with a forecast of 70% chance of rain or snow. We drove down Rt.2 and found the unmarked Ski Run Road easily. It was so overcast that we couldn't see the mountain. We started on the trail which follows the old road. It's a gradual climb through nice open woods with lots...

We started on the Spruceton Trail and were the first car in the parking lot. The most recent hikers on this trail were a local hiking group on the 16th, but the recent snow had covered all trace of their tracks. We followed some fox tracks up the entire trail until Taylor Hollow where the fox...

We had planned a route from the first parking area on Spruceton Road to avoid the steep ledges, but that parking area wasn't plowed. So we drove to the next parking area which already had 3 vehicles parked there. We decided that it made more sense to follow a broken trail than to walk back down...