Okay: we're not all alone, but it feels like it when you can take a post-hike nap on the highway. The entrance to Halle Ravine is behind the little white fence on the left. It's easy to miss.
Small footbridge over the stream in Halle Ravine, Pound Ridge. Halle is unbelievably beautiful and serene.
Wolf was 'shrooming again, like back in the college day. This is a little yellow one you probably shouldn't eat.
We rest in the middle of a little meadow at the top of the highest point on the hike. Wolf (right) is still 'shroomin from earlier.
Symbol for Pound Ridge Land Conservancy nailed brutally to a tree.
Halle Ravine is a small but unbelievably beautiful preserve in Pound Ridge, part of the Pound Ridge Land Conservancy collection of hiking places. Even a panorama camera like the Sony Cybershot can't capture the deep undulations of its steep gorge, and the height of its first-growth hemlock forest. The trails are well-marked and maintained. We love it.
On a Sunday morning, we met two other parties; both had fellow dogs. Both had dogs who roamed with impunity. It likes.
You can pick up a map from the kiosk at the head of the trail.
You can do this hike easily in an hour or so; it leaves the road and ducks into the woods, past one still, green pond and another clearer pond before a dam. The trail then follows the edge of a stream, as little foot bridges criss-cross the water at its low points. Near the far end of the trail, you'll climb steeply to a little cul-de-sac on a hill before coming back down and retracing your steps to the beginning. There are benches along the way.
The Halle Ravine entrance is on Trinity Pass just south of Donbrook Road at a white gate set in a bordering stone wall.
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