Diamond Mountain, Harriman State Park

Date	Distance	Time	Elevation Gain	Average Moving Time	Year to Date Miles
4/13/2019	3.9 mile	2 hours 17 minutes	606'		88.7

Map: NYNJTC Southern Harriman
Parking: Sebago Lake boat launch, Seven Lakes Drive
Directions: Cross street from parking area. Follow the blue/white blazed Seven Hills trail to Diamond Mountain. Return back the same way.

We've never parked at this location before - which means we are doing a hike in Harriman we've never done before! Sometimes it feels hard to find those. We didn't start our hike until 5pm. Going forward - no more weekend dog training classes. We want to get out more on weekends to hike. Which may mean two hikes - one with each dog.

The Sebago Lake parking lot had lots of cars in it. I'm not sure where all the people go. There is a boat launch there, but surely not all of those people were boating. When we started up the trail, we crossed paths with a few groups of people hiking back to the parking lot with fishing poles. I wonder where they were fishing. There is no trail that is very close to a lake. There is a lake in the area - Lake Wanoksink - maybe they go there? Once we passed the yellow blazed Buck trail, we saw no one for the rest of the hike.

We let Krummholz hike with a long line on. It was a pretty relaxing hike. He did well, and best of all - no people. Which meant we didn't have to worry about putting him back on leash. We did see a wild turkey. Krummholz saw it too. I stepped on his leash to make sure he didn't run off. Wild turkeys don't move too fast, so they are less interesting, say, than a squirrel. He did try to trot towards it, but I called him and he was good and came. We did a lot of recall training - I forgot my treats but happened to have a tug toy in my car, so his recall reward was tugging. This hike has some nice lake views - we both liked it a lot.

On the top of Diamond Mountain, we stopped and took a break. I played fetch with Krummholz - who did a good job considering I haven't taught him how to retrieve yet. I want him to learn how to hang out with us during a hiking break.

At the end of the hike, we walked over to the boat launch area in our parking lot. We walked Krummholz up to the water but he had no interest in swimming. We walked onto the floating dock - which moves around a bit. He plopped himself down and said he wanted nothing to do with it.

Play time!