view of the rock rift that is the Hart of the Gunks.
if you go in down the rail trail
Look on google maps, find where Cottage Lane is marked, that is wrong, Two properties back toward New Paltz is a long driveway that is marked by a street sign and shows dwellings at the end is Cottage Lane.
if you use it as a landmark the waterworks is a ten minute walk from the rail trail.
Should I include more ? It is all a great loop bike ride!
( also I think there is a street, Davis?? That also has a section to drop in from where it first runs parallel to the rail trail.for a landmark, again the strange evidence of property line contests
Should show the well beaten siding that was on the original sand hill farm deed.)
although markers were moved and changed the historic structures most likely will remain until . . . ? Also, farther into the neighborhood there was an old paved roadway into the old waterworks mine site,???
I have not checked any of this on the google maps in years so things may have changed , certainly the house that is the best way to the top of ridge #1 has doubled in size. The property owners, at the end of Springtown road are like many very wary and anti trespass if you get threatened back down and leave if it goes farther shut up and have an attorney insist on The survey, not a copy be produced.
From a point, following a line from the entrance to the cemetery on Springtown/Elting road, Heading across the road and eventually across the rail trail into the woods for less than a mile, following a wide stoney trail, the first rocks will start to be just to your left,a ships prow like block and some(6) problems.
The best of the bouldering is to the right
(or at the top of the hill, to the right : Hart sight )
if you are looking up the rocky road-like trail,
Take a short piece of rope 70 to a100 feet will do.
And 40 foot long slings, a small rack :every fall is a potential grounder,
There are 'stacks ' and 'chasms,' a bit like lost city only smaller.
It is easy to find all sorts of rock, from the bouldering to 85foot leads,
even some not so deep water soloing" . ..
Then there is :
The rock in the old 'church school parking lot??
Choss fests, and mixed lines on Joplinberg Mnt?
The old mine shafts that pump out cold air off creek locks road?
They are 'as good' as Kingston.
Sorry for this beta dump, but the mine shafts and full arches have not seen a rope in the last ten years.
That was when I was last around locally, now it looks like some houses back onto the cool shafts ?
If so that would be a real loss. before they were "FOUND" and put on the radar ,
they are like ivan's cave climbs. . . ?!?
Anyone know about those ??
I think they were bolted.
is the rock where the "lady June"used to live ,way up the hill on Mnt. Rd) toward the river but not the falls or Ian's house
A known thing?
If not . . . Find that small steep spot the wide is a ride if you blow the top out.
Some residents who climb are they still there ?
They might remember . . . ?
Also on the far side, going down to high falls but still on the Mnt road before the water fall on the left,
(If you are facing the wall) that freezes solid and is 50 feet of ice is also a 40 foot high rock wall right on the side of the road.
Look at the trees along the road by the lower end of the cliff , there is a rock grown into the tree at a crotch, twenty feet up.
There is So much rock in the out skirts of the Gunks ...,
Oh on ?? Rt 32 heading towards Kingston, after the Highway underpass,on the left in the woods a bit past where they took down the old pink house,
there is a 'corridor' of 40 foot limestone walls, both sides of the hundred foot long 'hallway' has dead vertical walls ready for 'Treatment!
Do not even mention Smiley road or the hills of Ellenville,& Liberty that hide Sandstone bluffs that
only Kieth and I ever touched,
why do I feel the need to spray about off the grid .... Because of the crazy over-crowding !
Oh ice caves Mnt? SAMs point? I did some climbs there and even took Richie R there. ., .
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