{"id":2339,"date":"2015-02-27T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:19:00","slug":"wrapup-last-saturdays-hike-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2339","title":{"rendered":"Wrapup – last Saturday’s Hike of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The actual hike was only one mile; 50 minutes in the snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

it was the short loop – the Annsville Creek Trail – in the Hudson Highlands Gateway Park.<\/a> It’s a few minutes from the Annsville Traffic circle and only about three minutes from the Cortlandt Colonial Restaurant. Besides being well-marked by red tags, there was a clear narrow trail, made by a snowmobile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was my turn to come up with the hike, since Jeanne Marie had organized the first of the year – Turkey Mountain<\/a>. Also in cold and wind! I figured that given the weather conditions, a short hike on terrain that we hadn’t visited before, would work. I would have preferred the longer, blue blazed hike in the same park, but the entry from Sprout Brook Road – there was no visible trail, and no blue tags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This entry is at the end of Doris Lee Drive – L to R: Karen Riner, Brigid, Mike Riner, Jeanne Marie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Up and away –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the frozen and snow-covered pond<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Annsville Creek –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moving along –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here you can see how close the trail is to Rte 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And it was here that I started to get suspicious that Brigid and Jeanne Marie had the same coat, in different colors. And I was right – from LLBean with a synthetic lining! Brigid inherited hers from the boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s where we settled in for some tea – we’d brewed some tea on the first hike – very important. I had my msr pocket rocket stove, the propane, 2 quarts of water, and a 1 quart pot. Only issue – I forgot the tea bags … duh … DUFUS. Oh well. Made it up later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nice lids. And fashionable high viz red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The four Horseman of the Apocalypse. And four nice lids. For those not in the know, Mike and I both went to Stepinac and were roommates at Fairfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heading back – the snowy landscape is pretty stark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having blown it on the tea, the only thing to do was head up to The Stadium<\/a> for a drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s a Guinness at each end (Farandas!), a Chardonnay, a Harp and a Black and Tan. Note seating arrangement with Jeanne Marie b\/w Mike and Tom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But Jeanne Marie then upgrades (quietly she thought) her seat – it is The Stadium – and joins Brigid and Karen! it was noted!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A good day! Jeanne Marie is in charge of the next Hike of the Month, probably March 21st or 22nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The actual hike was only one mile; 50 minutes in the snow. it was the short loop – the Annsville Creek Trail – in the Hudson Highlands Gateway Park. It’s a few minutes from the Annsville Traffic circle and only about three minutes from the Cortlandt Colonial Restaurant. Besides being well-marked by red tags, there […]<\/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-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","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=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11772,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/11772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}