Hike Reviews

<p>My husband and I did this hike in three and a half hours today. Beautiful hike with great views, BUT: Please, please re-blaze the Undercliff trail! We nearly got lost a few different times on it. First we encountered a single blaze where there should have been two, indicating a left turn; at other times the blazes were too "few and far between"; and at one junction, just after a great viewpoint, hikers can see two trees, both seemingly "aimed at" hikers coming from the same direction, where one tree has two blazes indicating a turn, and the other has a single, "straight-ahead" blaze. Here we accidentally hiked in a complete circle, coming back to where we'd started! And as long as i'm grousing: On the red trail near the end of the hike, but before you get back to the blue trail, more red blazes are needed. We wandered around for quite a while there, too, looking for the next blaze.</p>

<p>We went on this hike this past weekend and it was wonderful.&nbsp; The views at the top were amazing and well worth the effort.&nbsp;</p> <p>I have to note however, the importance of paying attention to the blazes and not the footpath, especially on the yellow Undercliff Trail.&nbsp; There's a point in particular just after you break off of the white trail and make the left onto the yellow trail where there's a clear path that continues but without any blazes to lead you on.&nbsp; Confused, we had to double back up the unmarked path to the last blaze that we saw, and it was only then that we realized that the blazes actually lead off to the left, rather than down this unmarked path.&nbsp; Really easy to miss that turn if you're&nbsp;only paying attention to the path and not the actual&nbsp;blazes.<br><br>Another&nbsp;thing to note, which another person commented on, is&nbsp;that the&nbsp;blazes on the yellow path aren't uniform, and they suddenly change shape, from circles to&nbsp;diamonds right&nbsp;at the point where&nbsp;it says you need to be alert,&nbsp;where the&nbsp;yellow trail turns leaving the woods road&nbsp;near the east-facing viewpoint over the Aqueduct and Fahnestock.&nbsp; Needless to say, we were a little thrown off by the unexpected change and it took us a few minutes to figure that out.&nbsp; Finally, in the last hundred or so feet to the intersection with the green trail, the yellow blazes suddenly stop.&nbsp; We cautiously ventured down the path, fearing we might have missed another&nbsp;turn as before,&nbsp;but we ended up coming upon the green trail.<br><br>Otherwise however, its a great hike.&nbsp; The Lonestar Trail&nbsp;and the&nbsp;the Undercliff/Nelsonville trails appeared to be little trafficked and we encountered no one on either of those trails the entire time we were on them.&nbsp; The white trail, on the otherhand, was busy with hikers, but it wasn't impossibly crowded.</p>