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| Hiking | 5.70 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 5.70 Miles | 3 Hrs | | 1.95 mph |
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| no partners | | I hiked with 5 other members of the Meshomasic Hiking Club from the Woodchopper Road trailhead on the Shenipsit Trail in East Hampton. The announcement indicated that we would hike about 6 miles, and visit Racoon Hill and Pine Hill. Having hiked alone so long, I had a hard time giving up my habit of knowing exactly what route I would be taking, but after about an hour, I let go of my obsessive need to plan and decided to go with the flow.
Heading north from the road, we quickly diverged from the Shenipsit Trail and headed downhill in the direction of Racoon Hill. Reaching a low point, we climbed back up to Racoon Hill, just grazing the edge of the summit, and then headed down and down to State Forest Road, which we hiked a very short distance, before climbing back up to the Bald Hill Ridge and the Shenipsit Trail. Where we intersected the Shenipsit, there were the remains of an old CCC Fire Tower. Our hike leader called this “Pine Hill.” There is a benchmark there labeled Meshomasic at 916 feet. We then headed directly south on the Shenipsit Trail, past Cascade Falls, back to the cars.
It was interesting going with a local guide leader, something I haven’t experienced much. We stopped to photograph a “Chicken of the Woods” (Laetiporus sp.) fungus. Apparently they are quite good eating. I also got an expert lesson in how the state forest boundaries are marked. We looked at the very faint remains of an old homestead, as well as an old feldspar quarry. None of the trails we followed except the Shenipsit were blazed, and sometimes they were pretty faint. Many were altogether missing from the maps. |
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