Jay Range, Jay Mountain

Dateline: August 5th, 2011. Tom, Jamie and myself in Tom's FTC and Mike, Erika and Ruben (dog) in Mike's Honda Fit leave the Wilmington Notch campsite in Wilmington New York and head for Jay. We drive and drive, believing to be somewhat lost on a road that turns into a rough gravelly ride. We make a few split decision turns at two forks and come to cars parked on the side of a nice paved road. We hiked the Jay Range in an out and back, actually hiking out one peak further than Jay Mountain to a higher peak. The yellow marked trail rises at a steep grade for the first mile and a half with one down and up in the beginning. Once you reach the first look out where we ate apples, took pictures and rested there's a little more hiking steep grade until you break out onto the ridge. The trail along the ridge crosses a nice flat open rock area. There's a couple false summits. So many blueberries. Nice cloudy day, with sun breaking through.