Owl Pate is the most distinctive looking of the mountains in the Hammond Pond Wild Forest. There are no hiking trails to the summit, but many people treasure the bushwack to the top. The views to the South and Southwest are excellent. Routes to the top are described in the various trail guides to the Eastern Adirondacks. The forest on top appears to have never been harvested and not touched by the fires of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. I have climbed it numerous times in all seasons of the year and with all sorts of companions and alone. Click on Owl Pate to see pictures and a short account of my most recent climb in July of '09 with my Brother-in-Law, Bruce Phipps. I have bivouacked on the eastern shoulder a number of times. It is remote enough that I've never met another soul on any of my trips for the last 40 years!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Owl Pate Mountain
Below is a picture of Owl Pate Mountain taken from a ridge on my property along Paradox Creek several miles due South of the Mountain.
Owl Pate is the most distinctive looking of the mountains in the Hammond Pond Wild Forest. There are no hiking trails to the summit, but many people treasure the bushwack to the top. The views to the South and Southwest are excellent. Routes to the top are described in the various trail guides to the Eastern Adirondacks. The forest on top appears to have never been harvested and not touched by the fires of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. I have climbed it numerous times in all seasons of the year and with all sorts of companions and alone. Click on Owl Pate to see pictures and a short account of my most recent climb in July of '09 with my Brother-in-Law, Bruce Phipps. I have bivouacked on the eastern shoulder a number of times. It is remote enough that I've never met another soul on any of my trips for the last 40 years!
Owl Pate is the most distinctive looking of the mountains in the Hammond Pond Wild Forest. There are no hiking trails to the summit, but many people treasure the bushwack to the top. The views to the South and Southwest are excellent. Routes to the top are described in the various trail guides to the Eastern Adirondacks. The forest on top appears to have never been harvested and not touched by the fires of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. I have climbed it numerous times in all seasons of the year and with all sorts of companions and alone. Click on Owl Pate to see pictures and a short account of my most recent climb in July of '09 with my Brother-in-Law, Bruce Phipps. I have bivouacked on the eastern shoulder a number of times. It is remote enough that I've never met another soul on any of my trips for the last 40 years!
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