Near Colgate Lake

A great walk yesterday with Kitty on the Dutcher Mountain Trail up near Colgate Lake. A great easy hike into the vast snowy bowl of the Catskill Mountains, not a house in sight, and bear tracks on the meadow near the trail head. We walked slightly up hill for about an hour, ate lunch sitting on a log and walked out. The snow crust was just thick enough to hold our weight -- in most places.

Colgate Lake itself has been euthanized and bermed by unknown miscreants with good intentions; the parking lot is now below the enormous dam, for which the earth was taken from the far side of the dam. It's hardly a wild lake any more.

Coming back down Route 214 to Phoenicia we passed The Devil's Tombstone, which is where The Devil's Path begins.