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DistractedHiker
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Weekly hikes in the Catskills, Shawangunks, and Hudson Valley. Mostly North East "local" trails but sometimes further afield when I get there. Photos, paths, and quiet places.

Catskills 3500 #4567
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Sunset on the other side of the river

#UrbanGaze #NewYork #NYC
#skyline #sunset #cloudscape #cityscape #clouds #city #EastCoastKin
Fiery red sunset over New York city skyline. Sun blasting through low clouds. Dark building silhouettes. A thin plume of steam rising from a rooftop.
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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#HikingLog 9
#Catskills. Warner Creek

Mossy #rocks and cold #water.
Waiting for snow

#hiking #NewYork #photography #nature #landscape #creek #forest
#landscapephotography #naturephotography
#hikingphotography #RockinTuesday #mossy
#autumnvibes
A shallow rocky stream flows between moss-covered stones through a forest of tall leafless trees.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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A flooded #abandoned iron mine in #Harriman #StatePark

#RockinTuesday #rocks #cliff #mine #cave #iron #industrial #history #NewYork #ny #hiking #hikingphotography #photography #nature #landscape #PhotographersOfBluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#EastCoastKin
mouth of an abandoned iron mine in Harriman State Park, with rust-stained rock walls and a shallow pool of blue-green water covered in fallen leaves at the cave entrance. In the 19th century the hills that are now Harriman State Park were dotted with iron mines, part of a larger mining district in the Ramapo Highlands. These mine supplied iron to several local blast furnaces where it was smelted and turned into iron for tools, industry, and even Civil War munitions.By the late 19th century most of these workings had become unprofitable and were abandoned, their flooded adits and rust-stained rock walls slowly reclaimed by the forest.
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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#HikingLog 9
#Catskills. Warner Creek Trail.

Trailhead: Notch Inn Rd
Distance: ~4 miles one way
Ascent: ~2600 ft
Highlights: rocky, steep, limited views
Notes: Strenuous. Probably better views early in autumn

#RockinTuesday #newyork #hiking #photography #nature #rocks #EastCoadtKin #landscape
Rocky forest hillside with bare trees and a light dusting of snow on the ground and stone ledges. Mossy ledges on the western slope of Silver Holow Notch mountain. The flat tops covered with dry leaves and ferns.
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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#HikingLog 9
#Catskills. Warner Creek Trail.

Gloomy day with low clouds and snow on and off. By 2 p.m. it became noticeably dark. Not a single other hiker all day. A tedious hike with not many pictures.

#hiking #hikingphotography #forest #autumn #photography
#TrailTextures #NewYork #EastCoastKin
Late autumn. A long birch tree arches over the old forest road surrounded by bare trunks and mossy rocks.
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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The new day

#hiking #newyork #dawn #sunrise #goldenhours
#EastCoastKin #photography
Power lines and pylons against a peach sunrise sky.
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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#Small village, big river.

#Finland from #Sweden

#BlueSkyArtShow #hiking #photography #landscape #landscapephotography
#hikingphotography #water #travel #mobilephotography
#river #rapids #EastCoastKin
Kukkolaforsen rapids on river Torne flowing toward a grassy bank lined with small red wooden houses and cabins. Dense green forest under an overcast sky in background
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I don't feel today's theme, so not sure where we go with this.

Carex lurida, aka lurid sedge

#small #BlueSkyArtShow #nature #photography #naturephotography #plants #macrophotography #light #shadows #green
a closeup of a small green spiky seed pod of lurid sedge nestled between dark grass blades.
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Fracturing shadows
#Sweden, #Hogakusten #HighCoast

#scape #ForestFriday
#treescape #forest
#hiking #photography #hikingphotography
#landscape #nature
#landscapephotography
#naturephotography
#EastCoastKin
Rocky forest path lined with large moss-covered boulders, surrounded by tall pines with sunlight streaming through the branches toward a bright clearing in the distance.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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#Catskills. Bearpen mountain.
The fall is almost over.

#ForestFriday #scape #hiking #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #NewYork #ny #TrailTextures #reflection #autumnvibes #EastCoastKin #bluesky #PhotographersOfBluesky #HudsonValley
A forest road covered in orange and yellow autumn leaves, with a long reflective puddle in the middle.
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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"These are not the droids you are looking for."

#UrbanGaze #streetscene #streetphotography #urbanphotography #winter #night #starwars #EastCoastKin
Snowy nighttime city street with a bare tree dusted in snow in front of a dark brick building. In the foreground, two silver book return bins stand side by side on the sidewalk. Must be library droids
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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#Montreal. New Bright Idea

#UrbanGaze #streetart
#photography #decay
#rust #streetphotography
#Canada #walls #city
#photographersofbluesky #EastCoastKin #history #industry #art
“New Bright Idea” was the brand name of a cast-iron heating boiler made by Gurney, a Canadian maker of stoves and boilers. Old specs for schools and public buildings mention Gurney New Bright Idea sectional cast iron heating boiler. This is almost certainly one of the cast-iron doors from that boiler (an ash clean-out or inspection door) that’s been set into a block wall, either still covering some old boiler or just reused as a decorative industrial relic.
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Winter is coming

#WallsOnWednesday #newyork #hiking #hikingpgotography #photography #ny #winter #hudsonvalley #frozen #EastCoastKin
Frozen wall of Croton Reservoir in silent snowfield.
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Between Ember and Ice

#WindowsOnWednesday
#NewYork #LongIsland #colors #contrasts #photography #architecture #windows #lightandshadows #goldencoast #tudor #revival
#EastCoastKin
A warm wall from two shaded lamps glows beside a stone window filled with cold blue and green glass panes. The study in color contrasts
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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#HikingLog 8
#Catskills. Tremper mountain Fire Tower via Willow Trail.

On the way to the tower the #cliffs of Hoyt Hollow.

#RockinTuesday #rocks #hiking #hikingphotography #NewYork #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #forest #ny #TrailTextures #EastCoastKin
Rocky, mossy, layered cliff bands in a Catskills forest, with bare trees and fallen brown leaves scattered across the ground.
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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#HikingLog 8
#Catskills. Tremper mountain Fire Tower via Willow Trail.

Split down the middle

#RockinTuesday #rocks #hiking #newyork #ny #nature #photography #forest #treescape #moss #landscape
#naturephotography #EastCoastKin #stateparks #fog
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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#HikingLog 8
#Catskills. Tremper mountain Fire Tower via Willow Trail.
Trailhead: Willow TH
Distance: ~8 miles
Ascent: ~1700 ft
Highlights: The fire tower in the end
Notes: With leaves down many obscured views or ridges nearby

#Catskills #hiking #newyork #forest #photography #EastCoastKin #nature
Gloomy forest with a light dusting of snow leading along a faint rocky trail between bare trees on a gray autumn day. A low wooded ridge is in the background under an overcast sky. Probably Hoyt Hollow Mountain Foggy forest with dark, lichen-covered tree trunks and thin bare branches. A damp ground carpeted in wet brown leaves. Eerie pale mist obscures the background Mossy fallen tree stretching up a damp, forest slope, surrounded by ferns, mossy boulders.
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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#HikingLog 8
#Catskills. Tremper mountain Fire Tower via Willow Trail

The weather couldn’t make up its mind: wet, windy, and snowy all day. Low clouds kept spilling into the valley, and the near-horizontal #snow plastered the #trees and my glasses. Eery day

#hiking #NY #photography #EastCoastKin
Bare forest on a slope, with eery snow dusting the leaf-covered ground and tree trunks - the Blair Witch project in Catskills
November 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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#Bright spire thrust.

#BlueSkyArtShow #UrbanGaze
#NewYork #NYC #city #skyline #skyscraper #urbanphotography #scenic #photography #cityscape #scape #sunset #EastCoastKin
Silhouette of tall trees and a narrow skyscraper at dusk, with bright orange sunset clouds in the background.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#Bright orange jelly fungus in snow-covered forest.

#nature #naturephotography #photography #landscape #forest #forestFriday #fungus #fungi #frozen #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Catskills
#trees #treescape #TrailTextures
Clusters of bright orange jelly fungus on a tree trunk in a snowy forest, with frosted branches in soft winter light.
November 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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November river, wrapped in fog
#Catskiils , Esopus creek

#scape #ForestFriday #hiking
#hikingphotography #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #fog #clouds #EastCoastKin #scenery #autumnvibes #morning
Fog drapes a wooded hill above a swift creek. Bare branches and late-autumn colors frame the view
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Evening sun in a #forest

#hiking #Catskills #forestFriday
#sunset #photography #nature
#naturephotography #NewYork #TrailTextures #EastCoastKin
Sunburst through hemlock trees. Gmolden rays fan across green leaves and mossy forest floor.
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Rain in #NewYork
Something different today

#UrbanGaze #city #HumansOfBlueSky
#street #photography #streetphotography #NYC
#streetscene #blackandwhite
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky
Black-and-white city street after rain: reflective sidewalk, lone person walking away, parked cars and tall brick buildings.
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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#HikingLog 7
#Catskills, Kelly Holow

The Creek in Green

#hiking #photography #hikingphotography #nature #landscape #landscapepgotography #forest #creek #brook #autumn #autumnvibes #rain
#EastCoastKin
Mossy creek rushing through a hemlock forest. Wet leaves and bright ferns line the banks on a gray late-autumn day.
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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#HikingLog 7
#Catskills, Kelly Hollow

The creek in red

#hiking #photography #hikingphotography #nature #landscape #landscapepgotography #forest #creek #brook #autumn #autumnvibes #rain
#EastCoastKin
An unnamed tributary of Mill Brook, Catskills. Hemlocks grove on the banks of a glassy stream that runs past mossy stones and rain-soaked autumn leaves.
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM