Finger Lakes National Forest - Ravine Trail to Gorge Trail
Last spring I ventured out to the only national forest in all of New York and explored what I have named the Foster Pond Area. Not only has it been quite some time since I've blogged but also many months since I've visited the lovely Finger Lakes National Forest - 16,212 acres of mixed forests, pastures, and gorges sandwiched in between Cayuga Lake to the east and deep Seneca Lake to the west. There's much to see in this not-so-well-known forest, and miles and miles of trails in which to do so. On a sunny late winter day in the middle of March, I took the drive out to Hector, NY (a very scenic one, I might add) with the sole intent of hiking from the Ravine Loop Trail southward to the Gorge Trail. I was a little anxious that there might still be some snow cover the further I went into the woods, but, fortunately, that was not the case and I had no issues with walking at all. It's been a fairly mild winter by upstate New York standards so any snow we had in