Day 93 - Leaving Harriman

Set out from Harriman. Instead of going back down the main road and being exposed to traffic on the road with minimal shoulder, I looked at the maps and took a path through the suburbs to what, according to the maps, would lead to a trail back to the AT. Longer and rougher, but saves me an hour of hiking with traffic whizzing by a meter away.

The suburb hiking was fine. I had my first wild turkey sighting!

I stopped and drank a bottle of orange juice at Harriman Square Deli. Picking up the trail from the suburbs was easy enough but the roads/trails in this area are not as they are in Google Maps or Far Out. Ended up running out of trail and bush bashing for 45 minutes back to the AT. Annoying but, eh, what can ya do.

Water sources are getting increasingly uncommon. I'm relying more on spigots at businesses now and less on streams. Shoutout to the Tuxedo team for maintaining a water cache. The logbook was interesting. Plum, Sparkles, Maverick, and Coyote I've hiked with at various points, and had all passed the cache earlier that day. Microchip and Ladybug I keeping hearing about but yet to meet. Wing It I would meet in a few days.

Planned to stop at Little Dam Lake where there is a large camping area. But when I arrived there was a group of about 10 guys playing music and generally being pretty loud. It's friday and it looked like they were going to be up late. So pushed ahead 2 miles to Kloibers Pond outlet.

There was a pub about 0.5 miles off trail which I considered going to (and later wished I had). But it was getting dark and I wanted to find a spot and set up my tent while there was still some light. Once my tent was up it was fully dark and I just crawled inside and went to sleep.

Bonus pic of a rock that had a natural smiley face on it. These are the sorts of things that amuse me throughout the day.Read more