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Hiking Long Path Section 13
Long Path section 13 is supposed to be easy because we know the trail and have done it a few times, in sections. We got up, drove down the hill, crossed over, and were greeted by a “Road Closed” sign. They closed off Ferguson Road to do some street work. This added on some extra…
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Exploring the New Mamakating Fitness Trail
The Mamakating Fitness Trail is open for business! While we’ve lived in Wurtsboro since 2013, we’ve only been to Mamakating Park a handful of times. Those times involved us playing tennis, me not being any good, and Nihad giving up on taking us there. In high school I tried out for the tennis team but…
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Hiking the Long Path Trail Section 12
The snow is finally melting and we figured it was time to get back to Long Path Trail Section 12. We were hoping to do section 12 and 13 together but with no ride or two cars, this was a no-go. We drove to Bashakill, parked our car, took a picture of an eagle across…
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Finding Witch’s Hole in Ellenville NY
Yesterday, we hiked in Ellenville NY looking for the Witche’s Hole. Most days, besides the Long Path, we get in the car and ask one another “Where do you want to hike?” I’ll end up saying what about here or there and he’ll end up saying either “Okay, that sounds good” or “I have this…
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Vernooy Kill State Forest Hike
There are so many hidden hiking spots that we didn’t know about such as Vernooy Kill state forest. We finally went yesterday to check it out and were pleasantly surprised. As we made the turn into the park, we saw the Long Path trail marks! They ended up going right while we continued two miles…
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Tusten Mountain Trail at Upper Delaware River
Today we decided to go to a new spot and found Tusten Mountain trail in Narrowsburg NY. While we’ve been to the Delaware River a few times we never went further up than Callicoon. When we arrived at the Upper Delaware location we first drove down the road and enjoyed the scenery. There are beautiful…
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Using Our Shoe Traction at Neversink Gorge Trails
Before doing our last section of the Long Path we purchased some shoe traction. There were spots on the Long Path section 6 that were icy and very dangerous. If we had the ice and snow cleats we would have been more confident. After that we went looking for ice cleats and the options were…