Ascent of Kittatiny Mountain-Warren CoHP on 2009-07-31| Others in Party: | Mike Schwartz
Roy Wallen
Jeff Severinson
| | Date: | Friday, July 31, 2009 | | Ascent Type: | Successful Summit Attained | | Peak: | Kittatiny Mountain-Warren CoHP | | Location: | USA-New Jersey | | Elevation: | 1600 ft / 487 m |
Ascent Trip ReportThis was another trip Mike Schwartz led at the New Jersey State Highpointers convention. We encountered off-and-on rain as we trudged up a steep, but fairly smooth, woods path to the top of a ridge. On the way, we followed the Appalachian Trail for a short way and encountered 2 hikers going from one side of New Jersey to the other -- and a through-hiker on his way from Georgia to Maine. At the top of the ridge, the trail became more or less well-defined as it skirted Sunfish Pond and the right edge of the fence of a reservoir. The first of two county highpoints is a boulder just 20 feet or so from the fence. Then we looped around on a woods road -- Mike was pleased to note that the rangers had trimmed the vegetation very well. Eventually we bushwhacked a short distance to the other county highpoint where several boulders emerged from the ground deep in a thicket. After tagging all the likely candidates, we returned to the start by following a different path that avoided the ugly reservoir fence by dipping through a shallow and wide ravine, back to the top of the steep trail that led back to the start.
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| Summary Total Data | | Route Conditions: | Maintained Trail, Unmaintained Trail, Bushwhack | | Weather: | Raining, Pleasant, Calm, Overcast |
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