OldBill
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Still recovering from a hip injury 6 months ago. Couldn't walk 50' without taking a knee. Yesterday I got tired of the endless PT so decided to go for a short hike. I'm in the Pecos next week and this would be a good test. Don't have great local scenery that many out West do but I do have Sleeping Giant State Park 10 min away. It has rocky trails, some scrambles and steep sections. Wound up being 5.8 m, +1300' / -1400' in 3.5 hr. Progress!
So many doctor visits! Don't push the Red Button...
First down scramble - lots of these.
There's a tower the CCC built on top. You can make out one of the towers on the left.
The tower - always people here. They come up a paved path for 3 miles round trip.
Back up a 100' scramble. Picture doesn't capture the steepness well.
View of the cliffs on the eastern side of the head of the Giant. Be there in another mile after a steep climb over the head.
There's a 30-40' down climb before the head. I call it "the root". A couple of guys were trying to get their dog to go down it. The dog was having none of that idea.
Views of the head. Once I start the climb I don't pause for photos. It's pretty much using all fours on slick rock.
View from the edge of the cliffs I'd photographed from below. Quinnipiac College below. Long Island on the horizon to the right.
More scrambles down about 100' and I intersect an old road. How they used it for carts is interesting. Maybe those rocks have fallen since then.
Then it's down and back up the ridge to the East. A view from the top of that looking back at the cliffs on the Head.
Had quite a few of these along the trail
Start of the last major climb. About a 200' climb. I should have taken a photo of the crux, but was getting tired and my knee was hurting. Hip wasn't bad, which was encouraging.
So many doctor visits! Don't push the Red Button...
First down scramble - lots of these.
There's a tower the CCC built on top. You can make out one of the towers on the left.
The tower - always people here. They come up a paved path for 3 miles round trip.
Back up a 100' scramble. Picture doesn't capture the steepness well.
View of the cliffs on the eastern side of the head of the Giant. Be there in another mile after a steep climb over the head.
There's a 30-40' down climb before the head. I call it "the root". A couple of guys were trying to get their dog to go down it. The dog was having none of that idea.
Views of the head. Once I start the climb I don't pause for photos. It's pretty much using all fours on slick rock.
View from the edge of the cliffs I'd photographed from below. Quinnipiac College below. Long Island on the horizon to the right.
More scrambles down about 100' and I intersect an old road. How they used it for carts is interesting. Maybe those rocks have fallen since then.
Then it's down and back up the ridge to the East. A view from the top of that looking back at the cliffs on the Head.
Had quite a few of these along the trail
Start of the last major climb. About a 200' climb. I should have taken a photo of the crux, but was getting tired and my knee was hurting. Hip wasn't bad, which was encouraging.
