After our Valero Food Mart breakfast, it took almost an hour to get a hitch the 2.5 miles back to the trail.
The trail, for yet another day, was gorgeous rocky steep mountains that just take it out of us. Luckily our solution to the precarious mileage problem has us only at about 13 miles today.
At the end of our hike we first went up black mountain, where we were supposed to get the best views of NYC. Unfortunately an hour earlier the storm clouds had.come in and at the top all we could see were the mist covered ridges of the nearest mountains. Yet another appalachian fa... but wait what's that? We could barely make.out the Hudson River and then maybe saw some towers.that looked like smokestacks. The mist covering the city only 30ish miles to the south was rising. And as soon as the process was started, a new cloud came to our mountain, this time with lightning amd the rumbles of thunder. Ok, we probably shouldn't wait to see if NYC shows its face on this exposed.mountain top with an incoming lightning cloud. So yes, appalachian fail.
By the time we were going up the next.mountain the rain had passed.and the setting sun was beginning to throw out golden filtered light through the thinning clouds on the horizon that sparkled in the wind blown wisps of water coming off the tree leaves. Poetic huh? It was beautiful. We were rewarded with clear views of the sun setting behind a distant storm cell after our climb to the ridgeline.
We crossed a road saying NYC was 34 miles away, and though we can hear cars from our tent, the mountains are somehow still enchanting. I really like this NY NJ section of the AT.
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