Shawangunks

race report

Shawangunk Ridge Trail Run/Hike - 2019 - Part 2

Castle Point to the finish line.

race report

Shawangunk Ridge Trail Run/Hike - 2019 - Part 1

Sam’s Point to Castle Point.

weekly review

Weekly Review - 9 Aug 2020

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weekly review

Weekly Review - 26 Jun 2016

Tuesday: I’ve mentioned a few times that I think the roads I’m running on are causing the pain in my right knee, and the pain in my left Achilles tendon. While I was walking back home from the grocery store tonight, I started noticing that my hips were hurting, because they were being thrown off by the curve of the road.

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Walking upon the Turtle's Back - 14 June 2015

Earlier this month, my friend Ken and I headed down to check out more of the section of the Shawangunk Ridge that had been burned. I had gone for a short hike two weeks before, and I was curious to see more of this transitional landscape. We parked off of Ferguson road, at a small parking lot for Wurtsboro Ridge State Forest, then headed out on the little used, yellow-blazed, connector trail to the Long Path. The trail meandered for a while, leading us past a rather unexpectedly large waterfall in the middle of nowhere, until we finally made our way over to the rocky remains of an old road. This lead us to the Long Path/Shawangunk Ridge Trail [LP/SRT], and then we started climbing back up to Ferguson Road.

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The Desolation of Smaug - 01 June 2015

I had planned on heading down to check out Shawangunk State Forest on Sunday, but as luck would have it a work emergency came up. My boss was kind enough to OK a personal day for Monday, and my wife was kind enough to take care of my familial responsibilities, so, off I went. It took a bit of luck to find the trail I was aiming for, a yellow-blazed connector to the Shawangunk Ridge Trail / Long Path (henceforth SRT and LP) off of NY 52 east out of Ellenville, NY. I actually pulled in to the parking lot I should have parked in: a small, uncompleted lot just up the road from the yellow trailhead, but I saw no markings whatsoever, and so I went back the way I had come. I pulled in to the first parking area I had seen, in a fancy brick-paved spot, and noticed a sign that read “30 minute parking” directly to the left of my window. In frustration, I drove a short way further up the road, to a larger turn-off, and parked there. As it turns out, this is the northernmost “P” in the Shawangunk State Forest, as shown on the SRT trail map provided by the NYNJTC. (I’ll cover parking in more detail at the end.)