2023-01-29 42 -78
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Location
Allegany State Park, in the woods past the Stone Tower
Participants
- Pedalpusher
- Simon the dog
Expedition
Writing this up a couple months later so some of the details may have been forgotten.
Being a Sunday, I didn't have any time restrictions (like an Official Meetup) but I usually like to get to the Allegany hashes early in the afternoon so I have time to hike around. In this case, I must have left after lunchtime with Simon. This isn't Myka's favorite time of year and while we didn't have any snow around, it was still pretty chilly and she would rather curl up on the couch any day.
This winter was pretty crazy. We had two massive snow storms, one a blizzard over X-mas weekend, but after both, all the snow was gone within a week or two, and practically no snow otherwise. So getting to Allegany, I was surprised there was still a lot of snow on the ground. Not enough for the snow shoes, but enough to get in the boots on occasion if the gators weren't adjusted correctly. ASP is at a higher elevation than Buffalo so that's enough at times to allow the snow to stick around longer up there. I didn't mark this as a Frozen Hash so I'm thinking the temps were high 30's or low 40's (~4 C). I parked at the Summit Cabin area as there's the main Ski Area trailhead across the road and a large parking lot there with a dirt road that goes by the Stone Tower. There's also a trail that goes in the woods and mostly along the road, but with the road closed, we just stuck to the road where it was easier to walk.
Past the Stone Tower, there's a radio tower up another driveway off the stone tower road where it curves back to the main road through the park. We kept going up to the radio tower and around it where we found some sort-of trails which then connected to some logging roads that were recently created to log the forest on the ridge we were walking along to the hash. We were able to get much closer than I thought as I figured to be bushwhacking through the forest from the radio tower itself. Where the logging roads ended, we had to navigate some really thick brush and left over treetops, but beyond that, the forest was pretty open.
Continuing toward the hash, we finally had to descend from the ridge to get to the hash, but before getting to the hash itself, we came across some trail markers indicating there was a mountain bike trail here. This trail is not on any of the ASP maps I'm aware of so I'll definitely have to come back and explore this area more and find where this trail starts/ends.
<Ran out of time writing this up so I need to come back to this and finish it up>
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