Little Pond

Quick trip this weekend to Little Pond Campground in the Catskills. I had reserved this hike-in site a few weeks ago, since they seem to be pretty sought after, especially when the leaves are on fire in October. For good reason, because this site right at the edge of the lake- a little close to the trail that circles the pond, but really, really nice. It's worth hauling in all your firewood and stuff, because you get your own little piece of the lake for a weekend.

So all was fun and games on Saturday afternoon when we got there, but as soon as the sun went down the sky opened up and it rained all night. Some pictures from our site before it was all wet...

Let's Give these Catskills a Try

In an effort to get as much car campin' in as possible before the season's over, we paid a visit to the Catskills this weekend. Found a quiet, but slightly crowded, tent campsite at Woodland Valley. The weather was nice and the mosquitoes were mean.



On Sunday I had it in my head that we would take the trail from the campground up to Panther Mountain. Then we got to the trailhead, saw the mileage, and stared straight up the hill we were about to climb- and decided to go for the closer overlook, Giant Ledge. Hell of a trek up that damn thing, but pretty nice at the top.