April 2011 Blog Posts (3)

My daughter and I had a great opportunity to hike up to Sunrise Mountain on Easter Sunday...of course our dog Orion came with us.

We were fortunate to pretty much have the trails to ourselves, possibly due to the holiday or the weather forecast (70% of storms which never happened.)…

Although there is nothing overly spectacular about this hike, I thoroughly enjoyed it.  The highlights are a view of the Delaware Water Gap and Kittatinny Mountains and two NJ1K high peaks - Allamuchy Mountain and Allamuchy Mountain North, all reachable via unmarked trails.  The park map is not good at all and shows no unmarked trails.  The NY/NJ Trail Conference will have this park included in their new map set coming out the end of this…

While returning to Ringwood Manor via the Hasenclever Iron Ridge Trail, after a climb of Hasenclever Hill, I passed this trail marker. I think only in New Jersey could you find a blaze on a discarded tire!