Hunter & SW hunter
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:40 pm
Hiked up from Becker Hollow. We left NJ early and got to the PA by 9:30 and started out on the trail. The first 2 miles was a drag, no switchbacks or anything and it got progressively steeper. We got to the Yellow trail and took that past the spring to the fire tower. After climbing the tower we descended and took the blue trail over to the other Yellow trail and took that down to the Devil's path and checked out the Devil's Acre lean-to. We passed that and took the unmaintained trail to the top of SW Hunter or Leavitt mountain. After signing the canister we headed back out to the DP, and then up Hunter mountain again to the blue trail for Becker Hollow. When we started descending we hadn't realized how steep the terrain was, I guess we went up too quick to notice. It took us around 7 hours and we hiked 9.1 miles.
The weather was nice, it was 70s and not that humid and there was a little bit of a breeze, however there was some haze which restricted the visibility limit, and things further than 10 miles were quite hazy. I still got some nice shots, and added 2 more peaks to my list.
Looks like this bridge actually stood up to Irene, amazing with all the rocks piled against it.
Was basically this for 1.75 miles:
Then this for .25 miles
After turning onto the yellow trail, we finally made it to the conifers
Summit rock
What's engraved and painted on the summit rock:
Summit cabin and fire tower
There were a lot of panes of glass in the way, but the view in person was amazing. It was a bit scary climbing the tower with the wind above the treeline
The cabin from the tower
Burrough's Range from the southern viewpoint
Devil's Acre lean-to
Summit canister on Southwest Hunter
John gave up on trying to figure out which direction we were heading...these signs offered no solice.
The steep rocky descent down the becker hollow, that neither of us remembered climbing on the way up. The rocks here are very loose and the dirt is dry so everything gives way easily. We slipped and fell on our rears several times, and caused many small rock slides, but nothing serious
Last shot I took before we just got down to the cars.
The weather was nice, it was 70s and not that humid and there was a little bit of a breeze, however there was some haze which restricted the visibility limit, and things further than 10 miles were quite hazy. I still got some nice shots, and added 2 more peaks to my list.
Looks like this bridge actually stood up to Irene, amazing with all the rocks piled against it.
Was basically this for 1.75 miles:
Then this for .25 miles
After turning onto the yellow trail, we finally made it to the conifers
Summit rock
What's engraved and painted on the summit rock:
Summit cabin and fire tower
There were a lot of panes of glass in the way, but the view in person was amazing. It was a bit scary climbing the tower with the wind above the treeline
The cabin from the tower
Burrough's Range from the southern viewpoint
Devil's Acre lean-to
Summit canister on Southwest Hunter
John gave up on trying to figure out which direction we were heading...these signs offered no solice.
The steep rocky descent down the becker hollow, that neither of us remembered climbing on the way up. The rocks here are very loose and the dirt is dry so everything gives way easily. We slipped and fell on our rears several times, and caused many small rock slides, but nothing serious
Last shot I took before we just got down to the cars.