September 7, 2019 group hike - Near Daien Lake State Park NY - 10 miles
Brian had a work function to attend and I wanted to stay out of trouble so I decided to try joining Foothills Trail Club on a nice long walk on a beautiful Saturday.
I learned a lot on the hike. The trail club doesn't just lead hikes, they also maintain a very long corridor of their own trails from Canada to Pennsylvania. Their trail is affiliated with the Finger Lakes trails but FLT has its own trail conference so I'm not sure how the two exactly relate.
So the hike was a one way hike with a shuttle along the clubs own trail. Despite starting in a little trail head lot that directly abutted Darien Lakes state park just off US-20, the hike was entirely NOT in the park and went to the other side of US-20 right away and stayed south of it the whole time. The trail passed through mostly privately owned lands on negotiated easements. Much of the mileage was along the edges of corn fields and little areas of trees in between the farm plots. There were some brief steep sections but overall this was a flat walk. Still, there were creeks, ponds, ravines and various types of plants and surroundings.
At the car shuttle point the group leader took most of the group (there were 9 of us in total) along a creek walk to see some water falls. I didn't bring my sandals and am not a water person generally so I sat out the finale' of the hike. I hope to join the group again for another hike soon.
The doll head was next to a surprisingly large area of garbage (really old) that some farmer had dumped out in the woods. The picture with lots of people was actually a boy scout troop (advised by a trail club member) doing some improvements to some wet areas of the trail.
I learned a lot on the hike. The trail club doesn't just lead hikes, they also maintain a very long corridor of their own trails from Canada to Pennsylvania. Their trail is affiliated with the Finger Lakes trails but FLT has its own trail conference so I'm not sure how the two exactly relate.
So the hike was a one way hike with a shuttle along the clubs own trail. Despite starting in a little trail head lot that directly abutted Darien Lakes state park just off US-20, the hike was entirely NOT in the park and went to the other side of US-20 right away and stayed south of it the whole time. The trail passed through mostly privately owned lands on negotiated easements. Much of the mileage was along the edges of corn fields and little areas of trees in between the farm plots. There were some brief steep sections but overall this was a flat walk. Still, there were creeks, ponds, ravines and various types of plants and surroundings.
At the car shuttle point the group leader took most of the group (there were 9 of us in total) along a creek walk to see some water falls. I didn't bring my sandals and am not a water person generally so I sat out the finale' of the hike. I hope to join the group again for another hike soon.
The doll head was next to a surprisingly large area of garbage (really old) that some farmer had dumped out in the woods. The picture with lots of people was actually a boy scout troop (advised by a trail club member) doing some improvements to some wet areas of the trail.
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