Road Trips and Hike Reports

What a stunner this was.  It was completely spontaneous, we were in town for some mundane reason that escapes me right now and decided it would be nice to try for a walk.  I pulled out the phone and used AllTrails and tried to find something that might be mostly paved or cleared of snow.  This was mostly paved but not really cleared on snow but I'm pretty sure neither of us cared once we got into it because these cemetery grounds are aaamazing.  Wonderful sculpted grounds that went up and down over and over (gently) with numerous beautiful vantage points to look up, down or across the land.  It was both the largest and the most lovingly plotted out cemetery I'd ever been to.

This hike came from the 50 Hikes in Western New York book.  It was a lovely hour long drive from home.  The hike was quoted at 5 miles but a combination of overshooting when looking for 'the third pond' and then failing to find a clear path on the other side of one of the other two ponds (so we used the alternate directions) added considerably to this hike. It was very enjoyable especially considering it was cold out.

This was a funny little walk. We were trying to follow directions from a book and we thought we were on track until we got to the top of the hill and saw the buildings near the reservoir which the book said is where we should have parked.  We were parked at the bottom of the hill but I actually used the GPS coordinates from the book to get to the trailhead.  No matter because this wasn't the type of hike where you could easily get lost.