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== Plans ==
 
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My plans were to take Metro-North to Peekskill station and walk an hour from there, since it was such a beautiful sunny day.
  
 
== Expedition ==
 
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I made it without much trouble (but with a couple minor raptor scratches) a bit after 3pm.  More details and photos coming.  Am also going for tomorrow's in New Jersey with a drag-along or two.  -- [[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]] ([[User talk:OtherJack|talk]]) 01:35, 26 July 2015 (EDT)
 
I made it without much trouble (but with a couple minor raptor scratches) a bit after 3pm.  More details and photos coming.  Am also going for tomorrow's in New Jersey with a drag-along or two.  -- [[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]] ([[User talk:OtherJack|talk]]) 01:35, 26 July 2015 (EDT)
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Image:2015-07-25 13.56.31.jpg | I got off the train at Peekskill, where the Hudson emerges from its Highlands.
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Image:2015-07-25 13.57.51.jpg | Looking the other way there was this mansion on a hill.
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Image:2015-07-25 14.07.23.jpg | Then I began my hike to the hash, passing Oley and Chuck's Rainbow.
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Image:2015-07-25 14.08.49.jpg | It was a long gentle climb up to downtown Peekskill.  I thought this guy might have been a fellow hasher, but he wasn't.
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Image:2015-07-25 14.14.35.jpg | In downtown Peekskill they were getting ready for a Jazz & Blues Festival!
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Image:2015-07-25 14.18.40.jpg | Peekskill had some beautiful old big wooden houses, ...
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Image:2015-07-25 14.28.35.jpg | ... a contemporary art museum, and at least one cheap liquor store.
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Image:2015-07-25 14.36.34.jpg | Further out it looked more suburban.
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Image:2015-07-25 14.40.11.jpg | There were no beaches (or popes) anywhere nearby here, despite their evident wishes.
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Image:2015-07-25 14.57.16.jpg | At last I crested the hill and approached the road to the hash, with a view of the Taconics as my reward.
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Image:2015-07-25 15.04.57.jpg | After a bit of winding, the hash-development came into view.
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Image:2015-07-25 15.05.36.jpg | It was called Hillside Estates.
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Image:2015-07-25 15.09.10.jpg | Happily, they'd never got around to developing the hashlot.
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Image:2015-07-25 15.18.42.jpg | I picked my way through the tall grass until I was at the hashpoint!
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Image:2015-07-25 15.18.55.jpg | Tall grass is also raptor habitat, as you can see.
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Image:2015-07-25 15.49.38.jpg | Peekskill even had a Hebrew Congregation... with Bingo.
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Image:2015-07-25 15.54.39.jpg | View of the Hudson Highlands from the hash-ridge, headed downhill now.
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Image:2015-07-25 16.00.30.jpg | All your Fence Need (are belong to us!)
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Image:2015-07-25 16.01.43.jpg | Coolest Meineke Brakes & Mufflers truck in America
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Image:2015-07-25 16.16.22.jpg | Back at the Jazz & Blues Festival it was just local teenagers doing pop covers and dance routines.  Ah well.
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Image:2015-07-25 16.16.57.jpg | But there was also a piano store with a cool sign.
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Image:2015-07-25 16.25.23.jpg | N. DAIN'S SON'S CO. INC. (not far from Oley and Chuck's Rainbow)
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Image:2015-07-25 16.32.03.jpg | And at last I was back at the Hudson!  With a couple minutes to spare for photos, even...
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Image:2015-07-25 16.34.51.jpg | ...before catching the Metro-North back to the city.
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Revision as of 03:43, 27 September 2015

Sat 25 Jul 2015 in 41,-73:
41.3067980, -73.8888245
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Location

A lot east of Peekskill that was intended for development, but is now overgrown

Participants

OtherJack

Plans

My plans were to take Metro-North to Peekskill station and walk an hour from there, since it was such a beautiful sunny day.

Expedition

I made it without much trouble (but with a couple minor raptor scratches) a bit after 3pm. More details and photos coming. Am also going for tomorrow's in New Jersey with a drag-along or two. -- OtherJack (talk) 01:35, 26 July 2015 (EDT)

Photos

Achievements

RaptorGeohashing.png
OtherJack earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (41, -73) geohash for 2015-07-25 with highly visible raptor claw marks.
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OtherJack earned the Public transport geohash achievement
by reaching the (41, -73) geohash on 2015-07-25 via Metro-North Railroad.