Mount Tammany NJ
Feb 20, 2017 12:06:47 GMT -5
Post by hoosier on Feb 20, 2017 12:06:47 GMT -5
Saturday February 18, 2017
DWGNRA (Mount Tammany) NJ
Spent a beautiful Saturday morning/afternoon hiking in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
Did a 11 mile loop to Sunfish Pond and Mount Tammany using the following trails: Appalachian trail, Dunnfield Creek trail (To Sunfish Pond), Appalachian trail (around west side of Sunfish Pond): Turquoise trail, Mount Tammany Fire Road and the Red Dot Trail
Temperature at start of the hike was 28 degrees. Made it up to 59 degress as I finished at 1:30 pm. Most of the trails were either icy or snow covered. I used Micro Spikes for 80 percent of the hike.
Seen many people heading up the steep and very icy climb to the top of Mount Tammany as I was heading down. Footwear on these folks varied from hiking boots, trail runners, to sneakers. And one brave soul wearing open toed sandals. I can only imagine some of the fun they had getting back down. Had one person comment about my micro spikes on the way down, that it was probably a smart ideal as icy as it was.
A few pictures.
Icy Dunnfield Creek trail
Still frozen Sunfish Pond
Sunfish Pond from Turquoise trail
Atop Mount Tammany
DWGNRA (Mount Tammany) NJ
Spent a beautiful Saturday morning/afternoon hiking in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
Did a 11 mile loop to Sunfish Pond and Mount Tammany using the following trails: Appalachian trail, Dunnfield Creek trail (To Sunfish Pond), Appalachian trail (around west side of Sunfish Pond): Turquoise trail, Mount Tammany Fire Road and the Red Dot Trail
Temperature at start of the hike was 28 degrees. Made it up to 59 degress as I finished at 1:30 pm. Most of the trails were either icy or snow covered. I used Micro Spikes for 80 percent of the hike.
Seen many people heading up the steep and very icy climb to the top of Mount Tammany as I was heading down. Footwear on these folks varied from hiking boots, trail runners, to sneakers. And one brave soul wearing open toed sandals. I can only imagine some of the fun they had getting back down. Had one person comment about my micro spikes on the way down, that it was probably a smart ideal as icy as it was.
A few pictures.
Icy Dunnfield Creek trail
Still frozen Sunfish Pond
Sunfish Pond from Turquoise trail
Atop Mount Tammany