Additional Sundown/ Peekamoose trip pics

I took a ton of pictures a couple weeks ago when I camped/hiked/swam with my two sons in the Sundown Wild Forrest area in the Catskills. I wrote a blog post about it but of course we only used a couple pics for it. Here's a bunch more in case anybody's interested. I have a others showing how the place is being trashed as well. If anybody's interested (they're kinda depressing) I'll throw them up (there's one that I'll probably never post anywhere- it was that bad).

You should give cornell-wittenberg a try. plenty of options to swim after and it is a tough hike that your kids might appreciate. Slide is easier and a loop, but Cornell has a sweet scrambling spot with a fixed rope.

Dig the pics, cheers

Thanks for the tips. Got another week off this month; might get back up there for a day or two

Looks like a perfect spot, Your quintessential swimming hole

Yeah, it's definitely beautiful. Unfortunately too many people are showing up there on weekends and, instead of just jumping in the water and hanging out for a while, they're using it like a big picnic ground. I described some of it on the blog. I could post just as many pics of garbage that was left behind. Some people are literally treating the area like a toilet. There are also some other folks trying to fix things and clean up though. A buddy of mine stopped by on Friday and said it looked like it had been cleaned up; there were only about 20 people around. Of course it wasn't a Saturday or Sunday and it was raining so I don't know if that indicates a trend.

We were in the area hiking over the weekend so I squeezed in a quick stop at the Blue Hole. It’s in much better shape now that there’s a permit required for weekend days (thanks to ML for alerting us to the permit requirement in a comment on the blog post from 2 years ago)




We brought a couple plastic bags to fill with garbage but this is all we got..



It’s impossible to describe how cold the water is. I think my body must forget how it feels cause it’s still a shock to the system each time you jump in. Very invigorating.

The guys on the tubes floated away downstream. I guess they were probably camping at the tent fields down the road and were returning via the Rondout.