Just for fun, identify this location if you can!
- Thread starter Scott T-Bird
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I would suppose there is something in the photo to help with this. Maybe the spire on the far side up the hill? Otherwise you would have to go with something near where you live. Couldn't be the Delaware with that size sailboat. Lots of deciduous trees. The size of the boat makes me think it is an inlet to a much larger lake or sea. Maybe Champlain or L George?
Rick & Deadhead are closest!
RAD, it looks like the tracks are hidden pretty well. Here is the giveaway ... I'll bet a few have been on this hike.
Tim's right about the Delaware ... there is a great hike on the AT going up the ridge on the Jersey side starting at the Gap.
This location is also on the AT.
RAD, it looks like the tracks are hidden pretty well. Here is the giveaway ... I'll bet a few have been on this hike.
Tim's right about the Delaware ... there is a great hike on the AT going up the ridge on the Jersey side starting at the Gap.
This location is also on the AT.
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Here's my photographer!
She was giving me a hard time because she says that everywhere I go has to involve a sailboat!
She was giving me a hard time because she says that everywhere I go has to involve a sailboat!
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Then it has to be from the top of StormKing Mountain on the Hudson. Nicht Wahr?
The elevated highway in the valley in the pic is the giveaway ...
The Water Gap has I-80 on elevated bridgework through the gap ... and the same exists at or near StormKing.
The elevated highway in the valley in the pic is the giveaway ...
The Water Gap has I-80 on elevated bridgework through the gap ... and the same exists at or near StormKing.
Bear Mountain Bridge
I have had a love/hate relationship with the Bear Mountain Bridge since 1964. We moved away from a place called Chestnut Ridge when the old man took a job at the Philly Navy yard. I remember going over that bridge for the 1st time on a cold night after the leaves had fallen. Even as a 5 year old I hated leaving Dutchess County. And the bridge came to symbolize that hate.
But my mother was a farm girl - the oldest of 5 daughters. We returned to her family farm on the Ridge very often. I am the oldest grandchild and I spent a month on the farm every summer until I got a job on a produce farm in central Jersey when I was a teenager. As a young lad every time we returned to my grandparents farm I would know we were getting close when we crossed the bridge. As an adult the bridge has come to symbolize returning home.
My grandparents sold the farm in 1984 and built my grandmother's dream home on a 6 acre tract in a quiet corner of an old apple orchard. Up until about 2002 we spent every Thanksgiving on the Ridge. Most times we had upwards of 20 people staying there for the whole weekend.
My grandmother is now 95 and living in a nursing home, but the big house hasn't been sold yet. I spent the opening week of deer season alone there. My mother and a different aunt called every night and everyone spoke of how they missed the old times.
Thanks for the memories!
I have had a love/hate relationship with the Bear Mountain Bridge since 1964. We moved away from a place called Chestnut Ridge when the old man took a job at the Philly Navy yard. I remember going over that bridge for the 1st time on a cold night after the leaves had fallen. Even as a 5 year old I hated leaving Dutchess County. And the bridge came to symbolize that hate.
But my mother was a farm girl - the oldest of 5 daughters. We returned to her family farm on the Ridge very often. I am the oldest grandchild and I spent a month on the farm every summer until I got a job on a produce farm in central Jersey when I was a teenager. As a young lad every time we returned to my grandparents farm I would know we were getting close when we crossed the bridge. As an adult the bridge has come to symbolize returning home.
My grandparents sold the farm in 1984 and built my grandmother's dream home on a 6 acre tract in a quiet corner of an old apple orchard. Up until about 2002 we spent every Thanksgiving on the Ridge. Most times we had upwards of 20 people staying there for the whole weekend.
My grandmother is now 95 and living in a nursing home, but the big house hasn't been sold yet. I spent the opening week of deer season alone there. My mother and a different aunt called every night and everyone spoke of how they missed the old times.
Thanks for the memories!
Lake George??
That looks like it must be Lake George, near the Narrows or Northwest Bay.