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| Windham High Peak from Jenny Notch Road |
Many of us in the Hudson Valley woke up this morning with an inch of snow. The temperature dropped into the 20s with a stiff wind. Winter still has something to say after those 70 degree days we had.
Since I did not get out much this winter, I thought it would be nice to get out on a real winter day. Unfortunately (or fortunately), by the time I got out it had warmed up a bit with the sunshine we had. Despite this, I would not see temps above freezing on my walk.
Since time was short and I really wanted to do something new, I walked on the Long Path just of Windham High Peak. I parked at the end of Jenny Notch Road. The trail mostly followed old woods roads, so the walking was fairly straight forward. This would be the first hike of the year in fresh snow. About two to three inches could be found here.
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| Like this most of the way |
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| Grouse tracks. I heard them along much of the walk. |
The trail got a little crazy as it went around a mountain. The footing was quite difficult. Fortunately this did not last long. The walk did not provide much in views. There were some heavily obstructed views of the ski slopes of Windham on Cave Mountain and some more obstructed views of Windham High Peak and the Blackhead Range. But I did not mind this. I enjoyed walking in the snow.
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| Winter in April |
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| Windham |
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| Mt Hayden |
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| The view point |
What a winter. Whiteface must have had a great year, and probably most of the other ski operations in the northeast did too.
ReplyDeleteInteresting how the grouse walk in a perfect line, one foot in front of the other.