Trail Conditions, Cedar Lakes Area ?

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  • NyHiker
    Member
    • Nov 2005
    • 2
    #1

    Trail Conditions, Cedar Lakes Area ?

    Does anyone know what the trail conditions are around Cedar Lakes, any snow left on the trails ? Also, is Pearkins Clearing road open yet ?
    Last time I was up that way ( last month) the gates were still locked, I thought the road was supposed to be open April 1st.
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    • kwc
      loser
      • Apr 2004
      • 1300
      #2
      gates were still closed on Saturday the 15th.
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      Once a year, go some where you've never been before.

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        • NyHiker
          Member
          • Nov 2005
          • 2
          #3
          Thanks for the info. I had a hunch the gates would still be closed.

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            • redhawk
              Senior Resident Curmudgeon
              • Jan 2004
              • 10929
              #4
              They don't open the gates until the road is fairly dry. I wouldn't think it will be too late this year, considering the winter we've had (or haven't had!).
              "If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." Lyndon B. Johnson

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                • BackcountryBob
                  Member
                  • Dec 2005
                  • 16
                  #5
                  Trail Conditions, Cedar Lakes Area ?

                  The last few years I've gone up there, the gates open around May 1st. As Redhawk mentioned, maybe this year it will be earlier. I just looked at this site: http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/p...angers/r5.html, which listed Tom Eakin (518)548-4132 as the Ranger for that area. Elsewhere in those sites, it mentions some trail conditions, but I don't know how often that gets updated.
                  "In order to be able to survive in this epoch of depersonalization, concrete deserts, and the alienation brought about by being harnessed into the crazy machinery of manufacturing and administration, I need the mountains as an alternative world."
                  - Reinhold Messner

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                    • twochordcool
                      • Oct 2005
                      • 627
                      #6
                      A friend of mine and myself backpacked to the Cedar Flow (Carry) lean-to 2 weeks ago - Cedar River Road is technically closed but we made it as far as where it turns into state land on both sides of the road - there is a parking area there with a huge cliff on your right.



                      We could have went further but I chickened out in my Corolla where the road was eroding near a drain pipe going across the road!

                      But you would have had no problem with a 4 wheel drive truck or a car that sits up higher to the ground -

                      could have made it all the way to the gate at the Cedar River Flow Interior Outpost.

                      Quite a bit of blowdown to go under / over / and around on the NLPT - and deep snow drifts up to the knees to tire you out real fast!

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