Training Log Archive: bl

Surebridge Mt. map walk with Beth & dogs. Gray day but since we were on the west side of the Hudson, it was going to be. No rain. Parked just beyond Kanawaukee Circle by the side of the road. Walked up an old asphalt road to an abandoned building site in the woods - don't recall what the structure was for. WOC courses passed thru the area in '93. Hiked to Hogencamp Mountain and then NE. Was looking for the place I took a photo in December, '04. Thought it was a circled rock face on the map but could see I was mistaken as we were approaching - terrain was not sloping as it did in the photo. Somewhat severe on the heights, green & embracing lower down. A snack on a log & return more or less the same way...Beth left a nice Norwegian sweater under a rock and knew where to find it.

After, drove to Ward Pound Ridge Reservation in Cross River, a Westchester County park & default place of fields & woods (BG, '97) when a motel is not of interest. A nice tent (night #7 for season) site, the 30% chance of rain is evaporating as the sky brightens. The black flies are hungary, a stream rushes at the periphery of hearing and spring is only a day older.

Hogencamp


A world apart


"Forest, forest, thou art fair,
But with me,
You don't compare."

Mocha hopped on a rock (so as to be in the photo?) as I was contemplating a scene that might have been attractive, even on a gray day.

Everything has a story


FR out to lunch? - just a straight line.