Warwick Turnpike (NJ) to 17A (NY) (10+ miles – trail re-routed so don’t know exact mileage)

We did this hike on February 20, 2012.

We spent a rather loud night at the off of Route 94. The folks in the room next to ours were drunk and very loud.

We dropped off Dirigo’s truck on 17A and then took Knitting Bull’s car to Warwick Turnpike. We started hiking just before 7 AM and it was cold and breezy.

We saw a sign tacked to a tree that said the trail had been re-routed because the bridge had washed out over Long House Creek.

So, we had do to a long road walk in order to get back onto the trail. Since we had no protection from the wind, we all got really cold. No one was happy about road walking.

We started hiking on big boulders on the ridge and started to get views of the surrounding area.

Most of the blazes were on the boulders so we were glad there wasn’t any snow on the ground because it would have been hard to follow the trail. We saw the remains of several camp fires on the ridge and at least one of them looked rather recent – this would have been a very cold place to camp because of the wind.

Around 10 AM, we found some relief from the wind and ate our lunch. We were all starving at this point but we couldn’t stop for long because of the wind.

Dirigo and I were so excited to reach the intersection of the State Line Trail and the AT!

We then hiked a little bit further to reach the New Jersey-New York State line.

Hooray, we finished our 4th state along the AT! And Knitting Bull was there to celebrate it with us!

We got moving again because we got really cold on the ridge. Off to the right we could see a Greenwood lake below us.

At this point we were all getting a little tired of going up and down the boulders – any chance the trail could actually go around some of these boulders?

We were all very glad once we reached the woods again. We crossed a nice stream and found a great campsite.