Along the Long Path

One portion of the stairs.

On top of the Palisades.  It's about 300 feet above the Hudson here.

I think these are lowbush blueberry blossoms. 

Barge being towed downriver.

Hudson panorama looking east.  There's no bend in the river here, that's just an artifact of the panorama.  Click on the photo for a much larger version.  Hastings-on-Hudson is just to the right of center.  Dobbs Ferry is to the left of center.   The Tappan Zee Bridge is all the way to the left but almost impossible to see.

The campus where I work is connected to the Long Path, a hiking trail that starts at the George Washington Bridge and reaches northward almost to Albany.  Interestingly, the path was the vision of Vincent J. Schaefer, who is best known to atmospheric scientists for his pioneering work on cloud seeding.  The southern end the trail follows the edge of the Palisades, where there are great views of the river.  Hiking along the trail makes for a good after-lunch break. 

Comments

[c.]

Where is this? Could you give us a google maps link to it? Pleeease? I wanna see where it is.

[joe]

A trail map is here: http://www.njpalisades.org/map03.pdf

The building I work in is at the very top of the Google satellite image of the site. Most of the photos come from about a third of the way down the image, just above the short, dark diagonal slash. The state line lookout is at the very bottom of the image.

[CL]

Yay New Jersey! Let me know if you're in my neck of the woods (literally) again. (Well, not literally for 'neck' but for 'woods'. Neck of the woods - that's a nifty metaphor.)