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+ | Overgrown attempt at development, east of Peekskill | ||
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+ | [[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]] | ||
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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. | ||
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− | + | *Setting out from Harlem on the metro north... -- [[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]] ([[User talk:OtherJack|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.80510080&lon=-73.93922660&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @40.8051,-73.9392] 12:42, 25 July 2015 (EDT) | |
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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) | ||
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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. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 13.57.51.jpg | Looking the other way there was this mansion on a hill. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 14.07.23.jpg | Then I began my hike to the hash, passing Oley and Chuck's Rainbow. | ||
+ | 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. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 14.14.35.jpg | In downtown Peekskill they were getting ready for a Jazz & Blues Festival! | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 14.15.16.jpg | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 14.18.40.jpg | Peekskill had some beautiful old big wooden houses, ... | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 14.28.35.jpg | ... a contemporary art museum, and at least one cheap liquor store. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 14.36.34.jpg | Further out it looked more suburban. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 14.40.11.jpg | There were no beaches (or popes) anywhere nearby here, despite their evident wishes. | ||
+ | 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. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 15.04.57.jpg | After a bit of winding, the hash-development came into view. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 15.05.36.jpg | It was called Hillside Estates. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 15.09.10.jpg | Happily, they'd never got around to developing the hashlot. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 15.09.15.jpg | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 15.18.42.jpg | I picked my way through the tall grass until I was at the hashpoint! | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 15.19.55.jpg | Tall grass is also raptor habitat, as you can see. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 15.20.08.jpg | ||
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+ | Image:2015-07-25 15.24.44.jpg | I lingered for a while in this beautiful spot, but eventually headed back. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 15.49.38.jpg | Peekskill even had a Hebrew Congregation... with Bingo. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 15.54.39.jpg | View of the Hudson Highlands from the hash-ridge, headed downhill now. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 16.00.30.jpg | All your Fence Need (are belong to us!) | ||
+ | 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. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 16.16.57.jpg | But there was also a piano store with a cool sign. | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 16.25.23.jpg | N. DAIN'S SON'S CO. INC. (not far from Oley and Chuck's Rainbow) | ||
+ | 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... | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 16.33.20.jpg | ||
+ | Image:2015-07-25 16.33.25.jpg | ||
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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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Location
Overgrown attempt at development, east of Peekskill
Participants
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
- Setting out from Harlem on the metro north... -- OtherJack (talk) @40.8051,-73.9392 12:42, 25 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. -- OtherJack (talk) 01:35, 26 July 2015 (EDT)
Photos
Achievements
OtherJack earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement
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OtherJack earned the Public transport geohash achievement
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