The first official Hudson Highlands Tour - a full, strenuous, challenging day that includes 6 mountains, 8 climbs, a few drives, and a walk across the Bear Mountain Bridge - came out to something around 20 miles and 7000 or so feet of elevation.
Our first stop was Mount Beacon, where we started around 7:30AM with a climb up the Casino Trail and then up to the fire tower. Next, we climbed up the Breakneck scramble and down the Nimham Trail. This actually turned out to be our easiest route of the day.
Justin broke off at this point to tackle Bull from the Undercliff Trail. Then, we were on to Bull Hill, the last mountain we'd climb before crossing the river and heading to Bear Mountain.
Bear Mountain, our 4th climb of the day, was packed thanks to the beautiful weather, the last gasps of summer, and a cross-country event taking place. From here, we walked across the bridge and up the face of Anthony's Nose, down the AT, and back to Bear across the bridge again. Finally, we took on 3 climbs up to the top of Pop Torne to finish the day as the sun set. It was a perfectly climactic ending to an amazing day.
Nice job to Brittany, Spence, and Justin, who all had amazing showings out there, and big congratulations to Shynar who
hit both her mileage and elevation PRs by completing the Hudson Highlands Tour! Days like this are both surreal and grounding, type 2 fun, miserably enjoyable, painfully relaxing, challenging both mentally and physically in the best way, and we live for it.
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