Pretty challenging. Cold Brook trail is very tight lots of wet evergreen to fight through. Plane wreck near too is very cool and right off the trail. The hike to Marshall had me turned around a couple times trying to get over the first peak. Someone had it marked with pink tape. I think there is a second trail down the path a small ways. Foggy summit but would have not been a lot to see anyways. Hike down the brook and out to Indian falls trail very nice. Rocky Falls is an awesome spot for a swim.
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Easy canoe paddle from Harris Lake State Park around circumference of the eastern end of the lake. Paddled to the Hudson River; short paddles up towards Mt. Marcy and down toward New York City
Beautiful day no wind.
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Easy canoe paddle from Harris Lake State Park around circumference of the western end of the lake. Stopped at Newcomb’s town beach.
Beautiful day slight westerly wind.
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Round pond lot is small - show up early. Bushwhack up Gravestone Creek is easy to follow, just follow the creek (duh) but can be tight in places if you don’t pick your spots. Keeping the creek on your left seemed the answer.
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Easy hike to the two shelter lean-tos near each other (.8 mile)
Seymour is first very easy until the last thousand feet of elevation, but steep slabs do offer easy enough traction with good soles and plenty of handholds.
Coming down was much easier than expected!
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Calkins Brook trail is a great way to get out to the three peaks in the Seward Range. I don’t recommend coming down the backside of Seward though. Very wet conditions as you walk down a cascade and through an abundance of mud. If you want to do the loop, go up this way if needed. For all four in the Seward Range, I’d recommend hitting Seymour and then going up Seward.
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Trail was easy to follow. Depending when you get to Skylight Brook, the crossing will need to be waded across. I ended up having to take my boots off. Other than that, the trail map was spot on throughout the hike!
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Totally underestimated this winter hike. After Rooster Comb junction trail was mostly unbroken. The two thousand foot climb was very difficult. At 4 miles in I had to attempt to find trail on my own. This app was very cool. Kept me on track. Time constraints made me turn back a half mile from summit. Lovely day though. All sun and maybe 15 to 20 degrees.
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Hiked it after a couple of days of pretty solid rain, so the trail was a creek from Marcy Dam all the way to the top summit blocks. I get the impression this is pretty normal. Unfortunately we didn't have the best views that day.
I'm told there are better, prettier hikes in the area, but this is the iconic one so we chose to do it anyway.
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Very pleasant hike! Dix have multiple points of view to offer during ascent from the 73 highway! Its summits is huge and the view from there is stunning! It took us 5 hours to get to the summit.
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