Peaked Mountain Trail, NY: 9/22/12

Harvey

Administrator
Joined
Jul 15, 2020
I thought I'd post the rest of my pictures from my hike of the Peaked Mountain Pond Trail. I had more than I could fit in my blog post. It had been a long time since I'd done this hike, and it's a beauty. A short walk with lots of reward.

The day was calling for thunder in the late afternoon and Peaked is not a place you want to be in a thunderstorm. I was at the trailhead at 7am and back in the car just before noon.

13th-Trailhead.jpg

Thirteenth Lake Trailhead

Balm-Gilead-Mist.jpg

Balm of Gilead Mount and the Garnet Mine in the Mist

13th-Lake-Trail.jpg

Trail around 13th Lake

Twin-Pines-Campsite.jpg

Twin Pines Campsite

Big-Rock-in-Trail.jpg

One of the Erractics on the Way

Peak-Pond-Brook.jpg

Peaked Mountain Brook

Beaver-Swamp.jpg

One of the Beaver Ponds

<img src="https://forum.nyskiblog.com/file/n4019388/Beaver-Marsh.jpg[/img]
Older Beaver Work

Obscured-Peaked-Summit.jpg

Peaked Summit was Obscured in Clouds

Peaked-Pond-Peek.jpg

View of the Pond from the Trail to the Summit

Peaked-Mountain-Cathedral.jpg

"The Cathedral"

Peaked-Rock-Cathedral.jpg


Trees-on-Peaked.jpg

Beautiful on the way up even without views.

Peaked-Mtn-Cairn.jpg

The Cairns guided me.

Summit-Non-View.jpg

Summit "View"

Getting down can be confusing if you haven't paid attention or looked back on your final approach to the top. I saw very few markers to show the way down. If there could only be one marker for the return, this was the one I'd choose..

Crucial-Trail-Marker.jpg

Crucial Trail Marker

Big-Erratic-in-Swamp.jpg

The Big Erratic in the Swamp

Peaked-Brook-Falls.jpg

Peaked Brook Falls

13-Lake-Birches.jpg

Walking back around the Lake
 
Back
Top