It was 70 and sunny. It was really buggy and there was a constant hum at the tops of the mountains from all the flies. The views were great, and we even saw a black bear on our drive in.
Driving in from the south. The Blackhead range.
one of two bridges.
The water was cold and refreshing, I dunked my hat and was good to go.
Spring
Blackhead from the switchbacks.
Where we're headed. Time to climb!
The trail now heads almost vertical. This is my favorite part.
Frank has never seen anything like it. Blackhead behind us we head up.
Some fun rocks
Spectacular view
First Catskill viewpoint.
Head back up the trail, a little bit more to go.
Here we are on the summit
Second viewpoint in the Catskills. We had lunch here, and were swarmed with several thousand flies and bees and flies that looked like bees.
on the way to Thomas Cole I spotted a lot of these.
Descending Blackdome, I said "boy thomas cole sure looks a lot further away in real life than on the map." Frank just stopped and stared LOL.
I dunno if this rock is the summit, but after this spot in the wood the trail just started to go down. So we decided this was the highest point, and headed back.
KHP and some DP from Black Dome
I love these trees.
Batavia Kill again
There were hundreds of painted trillium.
