Agile Trekker: Campbell Mountain Trail and Finger Lakes Trail, Route 206 to DEC border, Catskills

Date	Distance	Time	Elevation Gain	Average Moving Time	Year to Date Miles
9/22/2019	7.3 miles	4 hours 24 minutes minutes	1,327'	1.8 mph	442.8

Map: NYNJTC Catskill Trails Map 144
Parking: Route 206
Directions: West on Campbell Mountain Trail. Where trail splits, stay right on Finger Lakes Trail. Cross border into private land. Hike until you cross border back into Catskill park land, just past Campbell Stream. Return the same way.

Another day hiking with 18 lbs, mostly water. I've also added my Jetboil in my pack, for the extra weight. And its kind of fun to take a break halfway through our hike, boil some water, add it to a dehydrated meal, and have lunch 20 minutes later. I really liked today's hike. Yes, the trail at times was very hard to follow because it is so little used. The Finger Lakes Trail isn't well marked - blazes are sparse. But there were some portions which were lovely - hiking through the ferns, plus an open boggy meadow area which had interesting plants under foot. I would definitely do this hike again. I believe we did manage to get off trail during this hike. We were hiking in the right compass direction, but were 100' off the trail. We used our GPS to get back on track. I do want to learn more about how to find the trail without a GPS in this scenario. I know we should have backtracked back up the hill we descended to look for the last blaze, and then search to see where we went wrong. But without backtracking, how to find the trail? I so need to learn more! I again used the park borders to help assist me in knowing exactly where I was on the map in a later section. I'm just so thrilled that I've added another tool in my navigation toolbox. I'm looking to take a multi-day navigation course either this year or next. Something more than a 2 hour course in a building. I need more skills for navigating off-trail / navigating when I've lost the trail.