{"id":2130,"date":"2015-11-02T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:53:35","slug":"hike-of-the-month-on-the-briarcliff-peekskill-trailway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2130","title":{"rendered":"Hike of the Month &#8211; on the Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Actually yesterday &#8211; one day late for October but who&#8217;s counting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The north end of the Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway. Jeanne Marie and I went about 5 miles on it starting in the very badly marked Blue Mountain Reservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Jeanne Marie at the top of Mount Spitzenberg (540 ft) and the view is west across the Hudson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb088a0708970d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13541\" title=\"P1070654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb088a0708970d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb088a0708970d-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And further south out of the Blue Mountain area, there was a nice wooden bridge over a marshy area on the trail. Since it was the first day of hunting season we both had orange vests &#8230; Jeanne Marie had taken hers off for lunch at the top of Spitzenberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d16ffcc3970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13540\" title=\"P1070679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d16ffcc3970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d16ffcc3970c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I have some time will post a few more pictures from the hike and September&#8217;s, which was also very nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually yesterday &#8211; one day late for October but who&#8217;s counting? The north end of the Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway. Jeanne Marie and I went about 5 miles on it starting in the very badly marked Blue Mountain Reservation. Here&#8217;s Jeanne Marie at the top of Mount Spitzenberg (540 ft) and the view is west across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13542,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/13542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}