chapter 299
Devils Path
11/12/2012
aerial surveillance
link to My flight path surveillance folder (last 26 pics)
I took this aerial photo of the Catskill mountain range on Friday's surprise flight (yes, you can track our speed, altitude, and coordinates on smart phone). Jim Levy called in the morning with the opportunity and I jumped in. He had wanted to hit the Orange County airport for lunch and I noticed the flight path was going right over some of my favorite hiking areas. The Devils Path Trail goes along the top of the ridge that intersects the thin line of the Ashokan Reservoir in the distance of this picture.
After hiking these trails from the ground, it's nice to see it from the air for the perspective and it's beauty. Previously covered hike chapters on this Devil's Trail: from from left to right after Plattekill Mt. then Indian Head, Twin , Pecoy Notch, Sugarloaf, and Plateau (off edge to the right, includes Melrose view of mountains). In the picture above you can see how the glacier gouged these similar three rounded noses in the southerly direction 10,000 years ago.
On way home we passed over the picturesque Mohonk Mountain House voted 2nd best Resort Spa in the United States.
Ground control to Major Tom. There were many other photo ops on the trip. Including Paul Teutil Sr OCC Choppers house, aerial view of Ossining, my old Fed Ex building, oldest Civil Engineering college in America, Jims old KAPL employer, GE lab where world's first synthetic diamonds were first created, the world's primary Antarctic fleet, ESAM.
North Lake in the nearer foreground had been an earlier separate hike during my physical therapy rehab for back.
pic at top: taken at 11:47am, lat 42.2731, lon -73.9889, heading 190degrees, speed 139 knots, 160mph, altitude 6600 ft, ascending at negligible feet per minute. Boston Center air traffic controllers giving us heads up on boggies.
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