Foot Trail: Northville-Placid

Date: April 27th, 2007
People in Group: Jordan and Carlton
Location: McKenzie Mountain Wilderness
Start: 7:00pm at LAT 44.262836°N LONG 74.013519°W
End: 8:00pm
Length: ? miles
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Carlton and I hiked down the Northville-Placid trail for about an hour right as the sun was going down. We had a blast figuring out how to traverse the mud, water, snow, and ice. BTW Carlton, you did an AWESOME job going across the creek :)

Rock Climb: Hidden Waterfall

We started the day at 1pm at the Mountaineer in Keene Valley, then headed out to a climb near Route 87. Upon arriving we turned around because the climb was too wet. Our class (NCCC PED 129) then headed to this beautiful spot and made several anchors and rappelled down about 80 feet to the forest floor below.


We also spotted an awesome waterfall. It is a seasonal waterfall, meaning that it only exists when in the spring, when the snow melts, or when there is a large rainfall.



I took two trips rappelling down the face. For the first rappel, Steve was on-belay. On the second trip down there was no belay person, but I did use a prussex for added safety.

Check out the pix here.

Day Hike: Haystack

Date: April 21st, 2007
People in Group: Jordan, Keaton, Travis, Camille, Stetson
Location: McKenzie Mountain Wilderness
Start: LAT 44°17'33.41"N LONG 74° 3'2.95"W
End: See map.
Length: 1 mile

This was a fun hike that started at 2:40 in the afternoon. The beginning of the trail had some residual snow and ice, but about 10 minutes into the forest we began hiking on dry ground. We had planned on going all the way to the peak but our plans changed when we went to cross the small creekthat Keaton and I saw on our hike in November (2006). The 'small' creek was now a raging river and could not be crossed. Disappointing, yet still a great day of being out in the sun after a lonbg winter and enjoying God's creation. We arrived back at the trailhead at 4pm.