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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Hiking in the Hudson Highlands

As promised, here's the summary of our latest hiking trip (last Sunday).
It was actually the first time we joined the Columbia University Hiking club (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/hiking/) and it was a really good experience. For a minimum fee, you get a minibus, a driver, and an experienced leader ;-) who has organized the whole hike. Seems like randos-alpes with a bus. Héhé ;-)

The weather has been very strange in and around New York. We didn't stay in Manhattan but went hiking to the Hudson Highlands state park. It was very warm and even more humid, almost suffocating like in the jungle...
I thought it was because of the proximity of the Hudson river, which is very wide at this place and therefore brings a lot of evaporating water. But we were told the weather was also very humid and surprising in the city.

So, the hike was good, tiring enough and with about 700m of elevation, not that flat. Especially as it was most fo the time steep up and downs. The problem is that civilization is too close at the begining (noisy road and railroad following the river). But after a few minutes, we feltmore isolated, in the middle of woods, ...and bugs ;-)
As usual, no typical Americans with us: two Russians, a few Chinese, a Bulgarian, a Greek, a Polish-Lebanese American, an Indian and us...

See the pictures: a very nice setting for a day hike, with plenty of lakes, good views and actually very close to New York.

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