12-12-2018 - Dugway Road

After a horrendously rainy November, this December has opened with the longest stretch of clear weather in recent memory, and I'd be a fool not to take advantage of that. Today I walked the two-mile round-trip length of Dugway Road, which acts as a connector between the flat N/S part of CR-20 and its steep E/W portion. Temperatures today were more mild, touching 30 F when I left, and the skies were once again fairly clear, despite a day full of haze not quite like anything I'd seen before.

A small, ice-encrusted stream bisects a frozen pasture.

Mounts Hayden and Pisgah over the rolling fields.

 

A look down the road at the multicolored farmland.

Sunset lights up one of the area's most well-known farms.

Different colors in the land denote where corn and hay grew just a few months ago.

Rolled-up hay at the field's edge. 

A small portion of open farmland protrudes into the deeper hardwood forest.

Spectacular view of Windham in the middle of the road.

Strangely, this town sign is miles from the actual border of town.

Another abandoned house, this one recently abandoned and in the center of West Durham.

Farther down the mountain, Kayser's Creek that I crossed last week on Cochrane Road becomes a much larger body of water. Just a couple miles south of its confluence with the Catskill, the stream is seen here where an old concrete bridge crosses over it, its surface half frozen and covered in snow.