Knowing that water may be hard to come by for the nine mile hike on day two, my hiking partners rigged up a pretty simple water containment system to catch as much water as possible. Over night we did have several hours pouring rain and thunderstorms which made capturing the water that much easier.
When all was said and done, we collected and purified around 5 gallons of nice cold water!
Collecting water at the Bald Rocks Shelter.
Now the fun begins! Leaving the shelter at around 10 am, we got back on the Ramapo Dunderberg trail and began our day! The terrain in this part of Harriman is just spectacular. Geologists believe that millions of years ago this area of New York may have been part of South America. It always amazes me that rocks end up where they do and stay there!
Beautiful scenery a half mile into the hike.
A couple of tenths of a mile from disaster!
Although the rocks shown in these pictures are dry, when you got the end of one and it turned back into trail, the rock proved to be very slippery. As I was coming down off of the rock in the third picture from the top, I began sliding and I lost my balance. My left foot became wedged between two rocks as I stopped, my forward momentum kept me moving.
End result? A fractured left ankle and a subsequent surgery to repair it.
Happy Hiking!!!
Hike #21-.9-117.85
The Zen Hiker 