Sect 29, West Fulton to Vrooman's Nose

Oh my! I hadn't posted my last section of the Long Path Northern Excursion.

Kathy and I met up on December 15th to hike our last section. While it was pretty "poopy" in the Adirondacks, the temp in Middleburg was 53 degrees! No Snow! Wow. Pretty easy hiking. We started at the Patria Rd trailhead in West Fulton where we had left off the last hike.


There were multiple power outages across upstate NY, West Fulton was suffering from the outage as we started the hike. We could hear the house generaters from the trail head and saw multiple power trucks along the roads into West Fulton.

As we started across the field, I saw deer bounding away from us. The trail, of course, up hill to start and pretty much continued uphill for 3/4 or more of the entire trip. Overall, the route was abandoned farm land, like most of the last few sections. Many rock walls, and broken dams across streams.


We met a couple of hunters on after we left Pleasant Valley, just as we were finishing up a tea break. They hadn't seen a deer all day even tho we had seen plenty of sign of deer all morning.

The going was pretty good, with only a thin crust of now icy snow. We saw guys working on the power lines, seemingly in the middle of nowwhere but there were many dirt roads in the area they could have come in on.

After the power line and a long trek uphill, we hit the downhill side going toward Rt 30. Lots of blowdown here, making us skirt around to the side of the trail. Again, the reality of the trail didn't match the guide book entry. Good thing people had been thru recently with the aqua paint bucket.