Wednesday, December 3
Shindagin Hollow Road east to South Road on the FLT, Brooktondale
Hike report by Roger
Five hikers embraced the 25F weather and eight inches of snow to begin heading east on the Finger Lakes Trail from Braley Hill Road. After seeing too much snow on the lower, unplowed, part of Shindagin Hollow Road the hike was changed to Braley Hill Road. My apologies to anyone who missed the last minute change. For half or so of our hike, we enjoyed bright sunshine coming through the trees and sparkling back at us from the snow cover. It was slow going, slogging through the snow and, me being the leader most of the time, we made frequent rest stops. Two faster hikers made it almost to the steep downslope to Shindagin Hollow Road.
We headed back after a little less than an hour but, getting back to our cars, felt like we’d hiked quite a bit longer.
Saturday, December 6
Upper Buttermilk Falls State Park from Yaple Road
Hike report by Greg
Fifteen hikers gathered on Yaple rd. While temperatures were just below freezing again and snow covered ground greeted us there was no wind, all in all fine hiking weather. We altered the planned route as the eastern loop of lake Treman is closed until Spring ‘26. Instead we headed down the western Treman Lake trail to take the Bear Trail, and on to the Rim trail.15 minutes later we retraced our steps. For some hikers it was quite short of 2 hours but no for one more than 2.
A few of us think we have a location for our winter cook out. More later on that.
