Tag: day hike
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Early Spring Hike On Gore Mountain
When it comes to hiking New York’s Adirondack Mountains in early Spring, it’s more accurate to call it a late Winter hike. There may not be snow in the trees or along most of the ground, unless you’re in the High Peaks region, but once you gain some elevation and find shaded stretches of path,…
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Winter Hiking On Cat & Thomas Mountains
While looking for a moderately demanding trail that didn’t rise too high above sea level to worry about the mercurial nature of winter weather found on the Adirondack’s higher peaks, I came across the Cat & Thomas Mountains loop. I took a snowshoe hike up Thomas Mountain first, as I had a weekend free but…
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Windham High Peak
Anyone involved in hiking New York’s Adirondack Mountains is familiar with its 46 High Peaks. Just to their south is the Catskill Mountain range, where the magic number is 35 peaks rising above 3,500 feet. Last Autumn I took a walk up my first of the Catskill 3500’s, reaching the 3,524′ peak of Windham Mountain. Though it sits near the bottom…
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El Cajon Mountain
El Cajon Mountain in San Diego peaks at 3,675′ while the trail itself, a nearly continual cycle of ups and downs, puts you through about 4,000′ in elevation gain over its almost twelve mile length. The trail winds through the El Capitan Open Space Preserve, located just west of the Kumeyaay Indian land of the Capitan Grande Reservation. Doing…
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Lake Miramar
I recently took a few walks around Lake Miramar (technically a reservoir) in San Diego, where I used to fish sometimes, long before the Internet was a thing. Yeah, it used to not be a thing. It was a short walk from where I was staying on an extended visit, so it made for an easy escape…
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Elfin Forest
San Diego’s Elfin Forest is the kind of trail I’d avoid on a weekend. Even on a weekday it had a good number of feet parading up and down its trails. The good part is that the further you get from the parking lot, the fewer people you have to share the trail with. In…
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Black Mountain Peak & Point
Back in July of 2014, I went on a day hike in upstate New York’s Lake George Wilderness, at the southeastern edge of the Adirondack mountain range, that would expand on the typical Black Mountain Loop trail, traveling not only up and over the 2,649′ mountain, but also down to the shore of Lake George. From there,…