Section 32 Long Path Excursion

Finally, out for a hike! Kathy and I met at our usual location, Dunkin Donuts just off of Rt 88 about 0830 and headed off to Albany County. We parked my car at our finishing point and went to the southern end of the day's trail between Bern and Knox.

We had a great day for hiking; cool, clear and the leaves were starting to turn color. This section, about 9 miles, has about 3 miles of road walking but the traffic was so light that it wasn't a big deal. We enjoyed looking at the houses and farms along the road. The woods walk was even nicer. There were 3 very nice stream crossingson bridges, here's a picture of one.


Only one or two boggy spots near the end of the trail. We spotted a couple of late ripening purple flowered raspberry, which Kathy knew as thumbberry. There were 4 berries left, perfectly ripe. We each ate 2. Very nice flavor!

In the red pine section we found where trail maintainers had tossed a pile of sticks. It seemed like a whole village of chipmunks have nested there. On top of the sticks was a big pile of pine cones. Pretty cool.


We finished the day's hike about 2:30pm. Next hike on this trail is section 33. Heading toward Thatcher Park and Indian Ladder.