Stone Hollow Falls
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:34 am
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Two photo excursions into a carved out section of Hunter Mountain I like to call Stone Hollow. These were taken in mid-April 2011 during the SUNY spring break, and these seasonal waterfalls (like dozensssss of others in the Catskills) are only alive when the temperature is warm enough to melt a few feet of snow remaining on the summits.
Other times of year, either after intense rains or Irene, the water here will flow again, but the sweet smell of snowmelt and mud will not fill the air.
http://cmd.shutterfly.com/commands/pict ... es&album=8
Here is the 2nd excursion, 2 days later and a little bit less water, and a very very very very angry bear cub- that's a whole other story but worth seeing the picture that I was incredibly stupid to stay and take, but hey, bears in the Catskills are not very intimidating when you grow up around them- they're like big dogs (that can kill you)
http://cmd.shutterfly.com/commands/pict ... &album=410
In case anyone wonders- the main reason I was standing there for enough time to take the camera out was because I was stunned the bear was alone and was wondering if it was abandoned or something. I decided to turn around and leave (this was under a gigantic rock overhang) around one corner, the last split second that my peripheral vision was able to see into the ledge as I went around and above it, I saw a rather large bear head come around the other other side across from me, as it came downhill... so one second in there too long and I might not have been able to post these. The side I was going up had all the cliffs and waterfalls, while the side the mother came down was where it was a normally hellish steep Catskill slope, and this cave was the divider. Yes yes yes it was stupid, and maybe even dumber that I didn't decide to grab the cub and raise it as my own personal attack bear?
Two photo excursions into a carved out section of Hunter Mountain I like to call Stone Hollow. These were taken in mid-April 2011 during the SUNY spring break, and these seasonal waterfalls (like dozensssss of others in the Catskills) are only alive when the temperature is warm enough to melt a few feet of snow remaining on the summits.
Other times of year, either after intense rains or Irene, the water here will flow again, but the sweet smell of snowmelt and mud will not fill the air.
http://cmd.shutterfly.com/commands/pict ... es&album=8
Here is the 2nd excursion, 2 days later and a little bit less water, and a very very very very angry bear cub- that's a whole other story but worth seeing the picture that I was incredibly stupid to stay and take, but hey, bears in the Catskills are not very intimidating when you grow up around them- they're like big dogs (that can kill you)
http://cmd.shutterfly.com/commands/pict ... &album=410
In case anyone wonders- the main reason I was standing there for enough time to take the camera out was because I was stunned the bear was alone and was wondering if it was abandoned or something. I decided to turn around and leave (this was under a gigantic rock overhang) around one corner, the last split second that my peripheral vision was able to see into the ledge as I went around and above it, I saw a rather large bear head come around the other other side across from me, as it came downhill... so one second in there too long and I might not have been able to post these. The side I was going up had all the cliffs and waterfalls, while the side the mother came down was where it was a normally hellish steep Catskill slope, and this cave was the divider. Yes yes yes it was stupid, and maybe even dumber that I didn't decide to grab the cub and raise it as my own personal attack bear?