{"id":809,"date":"2022-06-29T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:02:34","slug":"last-saturday-up-breakneck-via-the-relatively-easy-nimham-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"Last Saturday – up Breakneck Ridge via the (relatively easy) Nimham route"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

See the map, which shows that you are walking (all uphill!) seven tenths of a mile to Breakneck Ridge<\/a>. The Nimham route only opened  last year – someone constructed a million<\/span> five hundred stone steps!   You come out about halfway up, arriving above the flag that is on Breakneck. It’s still a vigorous walk – you rise about 600 feet (according to my software) over the 7\/10’s of a mile. But nowhere near as tough as the first 600 feet directly up Breakneck. Joe went with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View at the 3\/4 point. That’s Bannerman Island<\/a> of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When we got to the intersection here are the views – right at the south edge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then looking east up the trail – can you see the  people right in the middle of the picture? Pretty cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking west, below us – where several people are standing in the little clear area – that’s where the trails intersect and we came in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We went back to the intersection of the trails and here’s a good shot of the flagpole and across the river Storm King<\/a>. The peak of Storm King is over 1330 feet so twice as high up as where I took this picture. Storm King is actually higher than Breakneck at it’s highest Ridge, by about 90 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m thinking I might like to do the whole Breakneck Ridge Loop, but by way of the Nimham Trail, cutting out the initial crazy rock climb to the flag. I wouldn’t want to handle that anymore. Total round trip would be about 3.7 miles and take maybe three and a half hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See the map, which shows that you are walking (all uphill!) seven tenths of a mile to Breakneck Ridge. The Nimham route only opened  last year – someone constructed a million five hundred stone steps!   You come out about halfway up, arriving above the flag that is on Breakneck. It’s still a vigorous walk – […]<\/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-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12478,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/12478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}