threecy
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Pine Mountain, MA, Tower Mountain, MA, Berry Mountain, MA
Date Hiked: 11/09/06
Trails(s) Hiked: Hawthorne-Pine Mountain-Taconic Crest-Taconic Skyline-Parker Brook
Total Distance: 8 mile?
Difficulty: Easy/Moderate
Conditions: Cloudy, muddy.
Special Required Equipment: None
I checked a handful of weather forecasts prior to this hike and they all concurred that it would be mostly cloudly in the morning, turning to a partly sunny day by lunch time. All three were wrong for this location!
I started out near the CCC Ski Lodge and took the Hawthorne Trail to the Pine Mountain Trail to Pine Mountain. Even without the fog and clouds, I doubt there's too much of a few from here except looking over the Tilden Swamp into New York State.
I continued to Tower Mountain and into the clouds - a great view of mist. I then took the Taconic Crest Trail over to Berry Pond and then navigated my way up the road to Berry Mountain. No view there, just a radio tower. I then decided to call it a day and took the Taconic Skyline trail back, stopping at Tower Mountain once again (with the fog lifting, a view was starting to appear to the south). I finished the hike by going down the Parker Brook Trail (which seemed like the nicest trail I had been on this whole hike, similar feel to the Race Brook trail in Mount Washington) back down to the parking lot.
The quasi-view looking southwest from Tower Mountain
Date Hiked: 11/09/06
Trails(s) Hiked: Hawthorne-Pine Mountain-Taconic Crest-Taconic Skyline-Parker Brook
Total Distance: 8 mile?
Difficulty: Easy/Moderate
Conditions: Cloudy, muddy.
Special Required Equipment: None
I checked a handful of weather forecasts prior to this hike and they all concurred that it would be mostly cloudly in the morning, turning to a partly sunny day by lunch time. All three were wrong for this location!
I started out near the CCC Ski Lodge and took the Hawthorne Trail to the Pine Mountain Trail to Pine Mountain. Even without the fog and clouds, I doubt there's too much of a few from here except looking over the Tilden Swamp into New York State.
I continued to Tower Mountain and into the clouds - a great view of mist. I then took the Taconic Crest Trail over to Berry Pond and then navigated my way up the road to Berry Mountain. No view there, just a radio tower. I then decided to call it a day and took the Taconic Skyline trail back, stopping at Tower Mountain once again (with the fog lifting, a view was starting to appear to the south). I finished the hike by going down the Parker Brook Trail (which seemed like the nicest trail I had been on this whole hike, similar feel to the Race Brook trail in Mount Washington) back down to the parking lot.
The quasi-view looking southwest from Tower Mountain
