{"id":380,"date":"2007-06-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=380"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:27","slug":"escarpment-trail-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2007\/06\/escarpment-trail-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Escarpment Trail Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"escarpment_landscape_keegan.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/escarpment_landscape_keegan.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" \/><br \/>\nThis is a small gouache landscape I did in my sketchbook, looking down onto the Hudson Valley from the top of North Point on the Escarpment Trail in the Catskill Mountains. A small sketch to remember a fun excursion into the woods.<br \/>\nHaving not done any backpacking in a few years, Kerry, Paul and I were determined to do a trip early in the summer to get our mojo back. Kerry picked <a href='http:\/\/www.backpacker.com\/article\/0,2646,691,00.html' target='new'>this amazing hike<\/a>, which was a perfect way to break us back in. And we needed it.<br \/>\nThis was such a spectacular geological area, with a whole range of mountains and lakes perched high above the Hudson River valley on steep rocky cliffs. <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Cole' target='new'>Thomas Cole<\/a> painted these very views years ago. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen anything like it, and it made for a beautiful hike, the way the trail hugs the cliff&#8217;s edge, constantly rewarding you with sprawling views, each more splendid than the one before.<br \/>\nWe camped out near a peaceful meadow, in a shaded grove of pines, and had a hearty campfire to eat our dinner by.<br \/>\nWe also saw a <a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonkeegan\/562762745\/in\/set-72157600385681037\/' target='new'>huge snake on the trail<\/a>, which was quickly identified by the flickr community as an Eastern Milk Snake.<br \/>\nPictures from the hike can be seen <a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonkeegan\/sets\/72157600385681037\/' target='new'>here<\/a>.<br \/>\nOf course my fellow <a href='http:\/\/earth.google.com' target='new'>Google Earth<\/a> nerds, you may look at the <a href='http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/ge\/Escarpment.kmz'>placemark of our hike here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a small gouache landscape I did in my sketchbook, looking down onto the Hudson Valley from the top of North Point on the Escarpment Trail in the Catskill Mountains. A small sketch to remember a fun excursion into the woods. Having not done any backpacking in a few years, Kerry, Paul and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}