Sunday, June 24, 2012

All Out On Allen

Mist over the Hudson
Opalescent










Top of Allen











Attempting to cross Lake Jimmy










Turtle on trail














Yesterday we hiked Allen. Now that is a hard hike. We started at 5 in the morning at a good steady pace with my dad's friend from  http://www.forums.adkhighpeaks.com/index.php whose screen name is Yonzor. The hike was really long and we had to cross the Hudson River and the Opalescent. On the way up we saw a turtle, a snake, a bunch of frogs, and a dead deer. We reached summit around 12:45-ish due to a half hour of bushwhacking around Lake Jimmy and heading up the wrong slide about a quarter mile to the top. We were turned around immediately at the summit due to thunderstorms. On the way back we spotted more frogs, a wild turkey and beavers. We finished our hike around 9:30 a couple hours later than we wished to have finished.
-ADK Gurl

2 comments:

  1. We have gotten this one behind us! I was amazed at your stamina, you just kept hiking. This was a long one with many tricky obsticles. Bushwacking, Herd paths that were hard to follow, slick red slime, bridges that were out and rivers that we had to wade across. You did it all and you did it well.

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  2. This was definitely a hard one. I'm glad it's out of the way :)

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