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Deputron Hollow Road, Danby
Official head count: 17H, three D
You can see Annie’s photos here
Texas Hollow SF, Bennettsburg
Official head count: 23H, seven D
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Upper Buttermilk Falls SP and La Tourelle
Official head count: 34H, nine D and three Da (daughters) — for Father’s Day
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Stevens Suspension Bridge, Forest Home, to the Varna cliffs along Fall Creek
Official head count: 25H, six D
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Layen Road to Bruce Hill Road, Danby
Official head count: 21H, four D
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Hammond Hill SF ski trails
Official head count: 23H, seven D
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Road walk, Sirrine Road NW of Perry City
Official head count: 20H, four D
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Satterly Hill, Burdett
Lots of flowers, but none of them were fragrant this year.
Official head count: 12H, six D
You can see Annie’s photos here
Monkey Run, N side of Fall Creek at Hanshaw Road
Official head count: 13H, four D
You can see Jack V’s photos here
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Willseyville Creek, Caroline
Official head count: 19H, four D
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Jim Schug Trail, Dryden
It wasn’t supposed to rain, but there it was, coming down quite hard as we drove out Route 13 toward Dryden — luckily it wasn’t raining at the meet-up
We only do this trail once a year, during hunting season in late November — it never occurred to me it would be a stunning place to look at gorgeous spring scenery
The whole area southeast of Dryden along the Route 38 corridor has a wonderful pastoral feeling — scattered farms and gently rolling fields and hills — the Schug trail runs right through the heart of it
I’m sure a lot of our hikers are really sick of the cloudy wet cool days we’ve been having — but some of our regulars actually prefer these atmospherics — I’d be happy myself if it was always like this
Official head count: 17H, five D
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Shindagin Hollow Road to South Road on the FLT, Shindagin Hollow SF
Official head count: 35H, seven D
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South Danby Road to the Tamarack Lean-to on the FLT
First hot-weather hike of the year — upper 70s when we shaped up, low 80s when we finished
With the return of bright sunny weather and the leaves now out on the trees, we’re into intense sun-and-shade effects in the woods
All of a sudden it clouded over for a few minutes and it seemed like it might rain — it’s interesting to see how drastically the cloudiness changes the lighting in the woods
I took a little poll of some people — were they feeling really hot or not? — half said they felt hot, the others not very hot
Official head count: 20H, two D
You can see Jack V’s photos here
Finger Lakes Trail and Abbott Loop between Bald Hill Road and Diane’s Crossing, Danby SF
Official head count: 22H, eight D
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Finger Lakes trail from Braley Hill Road to Shindagin Hollow Road, Shindagin Hollow SF
Official head count: 25H, eight D
We were swarmed by small flies whenever we stopped — not bad as long as we kept moving
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I want to remind you — or maybe you never knew it to begin with — that we have an online page with photos and names attached of the people who’ve hiked with us at least semi-regularly over some period in the last five years. This is a good place to ID someone you’ve talked to on the trail or seen in the photos but you don’t know their name. Here’s a direct link to the ID page — you can also reach it at any time by going to the Home page of the hikers web site and scrolling down. Speaking of ID photos — for those of you who complain I never use photos of myself in the hike reports — here’s a shot Tiger got of me on Saturday — I hope this will silence the complaints for a while
