Apr 18, 2014
Not on the Map For the weekend, at least, a kind of summer visited downstate New York. Saturday dawned cloudless and crystalline, with just enough of a chill to make you wonder if you’d need a sweatshirt on the trails. But by the time we got to Harriman and...
Mar 19, 2014
Hike To Anthony’s Nose: Choose the South-Facing Slope. With the warmer weather, winter is loosening its grip on Harriman State Park, and every day the streams and rills are a little faster and wider, and the ice on the trails is giving way to mud, especially...
Mar 11, 2014
Hiking Harriman’s Hemlock Woods Eyes tired of the winter: of blackening snow at the edge of the parkway, of tawny fields, the rattling nakedness of the upland hardwood forest in winter. Grey-brown, all around. Lately, I’m looking for the green cover of...
Jan 25, 2014
Raymond Torrey’s Description of a Trail Built to Last I woke up this morning thinking it would be easy to throw the dogs in the car and do a five-mile trek through Harriman State Park. And then I woke up again, this time from the dream I had of springtime, and...
Nov 17, 2013
Yesterday dawned clear and unseasonably warm as we climbed to the top of Pyngyp Mountain, on the Suffern-Bear Mountain trail, in Harriman State Park. (It would be a few hours before the first of the trail runners of the Irishman’s Suffern to Bear Mountain Run...
Nov 13, 2013
An Old New York Times Article Describes the Suffern-Bear Mountain Trail Use this old description to navigate the present trail (even from New York City). The first snow has fallen (and melted away). But if you have another late-season hike in you, and are considering...
