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Updated on the CNY Hiking website –> New GET section in Addison
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010New section of the Crystal Hills Trail in the Addison Area
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010From the FLTC website in late August:
A new 4.0 mile section of the Crystal Hills Trail is now open. The new trail starts from where the blazing previously stopped at the corner of Maple St. and Ames St in Addison. Hike north from there through cemetery, tree farm, and woods. The trail leaves the woods and returns to road walk at Mose Rd. just west of Beeman Hollow Rd. There are also two new short spur trails, one to a waterfall and the other down to parking on NY 417. The map CH2 has been updated with a revision date of 8/10.
New Hunting Closure on the Bristol Hills Trail
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010From the FLTC website –>
Map B3, private property that heads west from Two Rod Rd immediately south of crossing with Hungry Hollow Rd: new owners are closing it for autumn hunting season, October 7 – December 21. Signs will be posted at both CR 13 (Mitchellsville Rd) and at Two Rod Rd, but if you still want to hike (northward) that long section through Pigtail Hollow State Forest, from Access 18 on CR 13, then you will have to leave the trail where it turns from north to east at state forest corner.
Directions: Just to the immediate left of the G in Granma’s Campsite label on map B3 is a dead end road (Runner Rd.). It was “improved” as the logging landing back in 1998 when Pigtail Hollow had a huge red pine harvest. That road goes straight south to the turn the trail follows around the corner with state and private properties, which is where a hiker emerges from the last of the post-logging section (walking northward from CR 13), jogs a few feet left onto an obvious old lane, then the trail turns right again into the woods, at a post with a DEC sign on it, reminding those who use the lane that no motorized users are permitted onto our trail. TURN LEFT AT THAT POST AND FOLLOW THE LANE NORTHWARD instead of continuing on the FLT eastward.
The lane goes to an open weedy field shortly. This logging landing not recommended for parking unless you have very high clearance. Hunters park there a lot, too. Cross the field anywhere and aim for the NNW corner, where the improved lane goes downhill to Hungry Hollow Rd. Turn right onto this very quiet dirt road to continue a little more than a mile to Two Rod Rd, where you will turn left to continue on the FLT.
Swedish Loop added to the M19 FLTC Map
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010A new blue-blazed Swedish Loop has been added to the FLTC M19 map. It is 1.4 miles long with a 0.1 mile spur, creating a 3.4 mile loop with the main trail:
You can purchase the M19 map at the FLTC website.
New section of the Crystal Hills Trail is now open.
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010From the FLTC website –>
A new 6.7 mile section of the Crystal Hills Trail is now open. The new trail goes south from the trailhead on Wixon Rd (south of Meads Creek State Forest). It then crosses Watson Homestead and West Hill State Forest and ends on Rogers Rd. The unblazed road walk south follows West Hill Rd into the village of Painted Post, to a new map endpoint at Kinsella Park. The map has been updated with a revision date of 9/10.
The Crystal Hills Trail is also known as the Great Eastern Trail.
