i live on top of a mountain...from the windows of the house i see the sun rise the moon set and sydney 70ks far away in the distance..merle
Yes, I had those books. Still do I think. I'd go hiking every weekend with Appalachian Mt. Club and others when I lived in Manhattan... Did Schunemunk and many many other hikes in the books... Edgar On Apr 1, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Joe wrote: >Edgar, > >Slide! Mountain, that is. I climbed it three times. Doing the circular >trail over Slide, Wittenberg, and Cornell mountain. I love that area. And I >love that hike. About 26 miles, I think, over the three peaks. I did the >walks in different directions over a six-year time or so, every few years >coming back. As to approaches to Slide, I remember one dir. was very steep, >and difficult, and one was gradual. One of them was called "the Jeep trail". > >We don't have GREEN like that in S. Arizona. My eyes ache for it. > >But when I am back there -- or elsewhere -- and see such green again, my eyes >then ache from THAT. It's like suddenly landing in IRELAND. Too, too green, >after decades of desert. Just too impressive on the system. But not all as >hard to take as I make it out to be. ;-) > >I never did do Mt. Marcy 'way up in the Adirondaks, highest point in NY State. > Just over a mile high, i think. My transportation was via bus from Port >Authority at 42nd St., and I usually didn't travel as far as the Adirondacks, >nor could spend so much more time out, away on "school" (college) vacation -- >and then work -- during all those hiking years. For Slide Mt., I'd get off >the bus on the highway at Phoenicia, and scramble to find the trail-head. >Driver would open the luggage compartment outside for me, I'd take out my >pack, and off I'd go. To hail the bus on the highway five days later. I >carried the bus sched. in my pocket; and wore a watch, in those days. > >THE NEW YORK WALK BOOK is still a favorite tome. It's the book, too, that >stimulated me to take up outdoor sketching and drawing, which I always did up >in the hills and out on the trails. If you own the book, you'll recall the >many drawings. I think there's also a NEW JERSEY WALK BOOK, nowadays. > >Closer to the City, do may remember "Schunemunk"?, around West Point and >Harrimann. Fascinating conglomerate rock underfoot. Big quartz cobbles in a >brown shale matrix. Quite beautiful. We had to cross a farmer's posted land >to get to the trail, but I think he provided a narrow easement. Memory fades, >there. > >--Joe > >> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote: >> >> Mike, >> >> Great story! Reminds me of the day I climbed the highest mountain in the >> Catskills for the view. At the top we couldn't see more than 10 feet in any >> direction for the fog! >> >> Also reminds me of the day I climbed Mt. Fuji illegally in November way out >> of season. Started walking up the road from the bottom mid afternoon. By the >> time it was dark a heavy snow was falling. The road was closed and there was >> not a single car on it, only the mountain and the trees and the snow and >> mile after mile of steadily rising totally empty road and me totally alone. >> Total magical silence in the night. A wonderful many hour walking meditation >> on the light within! Finally reached base camp where the road ends in the >> middle of the night. Only a single custodian there who gave me a bunk in the >> otherwise completely empty inn. Unfortunately was unable to finish the climb >> to the top as the snow was much too deep toward the summit.... >> > >
