09-28-2019: Bash Bish Falls

This past weekend I took a drive extending over a wide area, from Schoharie County in New York to Litchfield County in Connecticut. I made a number of stops along the way, including at the historical Copake Iron Works, and at Bash Bish Falls, the tallest waterfall in Massachusetts.

Bright foliage is seen on Donats Mountain in Cobleskill NY.

Autumn branches shade Gates Hill Road in Fulton.

Rolling farmland along Armlin Hill Road in Fulton.

View southwest from Edwards Hill Road in Rensselaerville. Mount Pisgah, at center, dominates the skyline.

Closer view of farmland and forest below Mount Steenburgh.

This windswept barn on Edwards Hill seems to be in surprisingly good condition.

A lone maple tree, already bare, guards this isolated farmhouse.

This forest a half-mile distant was ripe with fall colors.

A large maple tree at the edge of a field overlooks the valley below.

A farm on Route 20, four miles away. I imaged this farm in detail last winter.

A distant view of the Susquehanna Turnpike, winding its way up the mountainside.

Red dominated this young maple tree in Hudson NY.

View of the old blasting furnace at the Copake Iron Works in Copake NY.

The museum at the iron works contained a model of the old company town at its height.

Century-old iron ingots forged at Copake Falls.

A view of the small museum at the historical site.

A 3/4-mile hiking trail leads from NY to the Bash Bish falls in MA. This is the brook, near the trailhead.

View upstream along the Bash Bish Brook, still from the NY side of the border.

The trail wound through relatively young maple forest.

Distant view of the falls, from a lookout along the trail.

A closer view, focused on the boulder that divides the falls into two distinct streams.

A sideways view allowed me to capture the whole waterfall in one shot.

A young birch tree (Betula lenta) kept blocking my view.

Cascades along the Bash Bish Brook above the main falls.

Side view of the falls where they empty into the pool at their base.

Looking downstream along the brook from the falls.

A closer shot of the base of the falls.

Autumn evening on Guilder Pond, in the Mount Everett State Reservation in Mount Washington MA.