| August 14, 2005 |
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Leaving the 10 mile shelter at 7:35am.
So far it looks like a pretty day. It's going to be a shorter
day today, I'll only be hiking about 8 miles. I stayed with
Ridge Runner last night. I had the shelter by myself, but
south bound hikers used the tented area. |
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I'm getting ready to cross the Anderson Memorial Bridge.
I'm not hiking above the Housatonic River through a pine
forest. Had a few boulders coming up. The beach along
the river is very sandy. I can see where some people were down
there swimming. The river is clear with some water falls and
large rounded rocks that you can walk on or sit on. Some
roaring water falls, not very high. I came out on to what
looks like a forest service road. The trees around here are
mostly pine, large oak, the woods are fairly open. Easy hiking
at this point, not many boulders and clear of brush and weeds. |
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I turned off the road into a huge pine
forest, very open though, a lot of limbs are broken off. A
quite a few ferns in this area, so it must be damp. Getting
ready to cross the Schaghticoke Mt. Road. A lot cattails and purple
flowers growing here. |
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I'm going up the Schaghticoke Mt.
It's like NY and NJ with large huge big boulders. Going up around
them and you can see large boulders strung out all over the place.
The trail hasn't been to bad though! |
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I had to climb up a lot of boulder steps
coming up the mountain with long switch backs. Some have been
pretty steep. Now I'm going through a bunch of weeds.
When ever I'm in the briars, weeds and bushes I keep an alert eye
for rattlesnakes. I'm still going around the side of the
Mountain, but I can look up and that the top of this mountain is
solid boulders. |
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I'm on top of the ridge top and every now
and then there's one of those exposed rocks that we have to hike
across. I hike a good way on top of the ridge line and it was
basically the same. As I hiked farther north there was more
and more rocks in the trail as well as large boulders on the sides
and above my head, both east and west side. |
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There's about 8 tenths of a mile into Kent,
so I stopped at the Algo Shelter and filtered myself some water
because we were completely out. Then Simon and I went into
Kent and we're staying at a B & B in the area. That's all for
today. |
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Swing'n Jane and
Simon |
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