Greenwood Lake to Buchanan Mountain

Day Eight
Monday, October 3, 2016
Greenwood Lake, NY to Buchanan Mountain

 

We got a pretty late start this morning after leaving the motel at around 8:00.  We stopped at the Quick Mart for breakfast on the recommendation of the lady at Linden Motel. They had a deal of a breakfast roll with egg, meat and cheese and coffee for something like $4.99.  We found as we later walked up the street that there are plenty of places to find breakfast.  We then went to a little market and picked up a few items to take with us on the trail before heading back up the .9 to the trail.  (Add that to our ten miles today.)

 

 

 

 

Before long we reached NY 17A where we were looking forward to eating lunch at Hot Dogs Plus.  Uh oh, Hot Dogs Plus had a sign – it’s closed on Monday.  Just our luck.

  

Hot Dogs Plus, closed on Monday



 

So I sat on their picnic table while Wait-up up trekked down the hill and around the corner to see  if he could fine the Bellvale Creamery.  He soon came back and said he had found it but it didn’t open until 12:00.  Well, it was almost 12 and we decided it was worth the wait, so we both went back the .3 to the Creamery.   They obviously are very popular as cars were already gathering in the parking lot.  They have several picnic tables overlooking a beautiful view beside their building.  We each chose a flavor of ice cream and sat at the picnic tables and thoroughly enjoyed it.  It was one of the few New York stops that we were fortunate enough to hit at the right time.  The New York deli hop was not working for us to well. 

 

It was a fairly easy day with a rock scramble at the Eastern Pinnacles, another at Cat Rocks, then we took the blue blaze around the third one.  Other than that, the path was not too rocky and pretty level.   

Fitzgerald Falls was completely dry.  That’s quite a drought!  There are some very nice stone steps going up the mountain beside the falls. 



Fitzgerald Falls, completely dry. 

We saw a few southbound thru-hikers today. 

We walked until around 5:00 and stealth camped on Buchanan Mountain.