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Ok, I know that technically Seymour Mountain is not part of the Seward Range, however they are accessed from the same trailhead, and (sort of, if you take the wrong trail) follow the same trail partly.
Our experience in the Sewards was not a good one (for a refresher, see here) and we weren't looking forward to our Seymour hike, but it had to get done. We had been planning to come down, stay at Johns Brook Lodge, and hike Gothics and Armstrong, so we figured why not come down a day early and tack on Seymour?
As is our custom with out of the way trailheads (Upper Works, Elk Lake, and Coreys Road) we car camped the night before at the trailhead. Bright and early the next day we quickly ate breakfast, drank a little coffee and finished gathering up our things. We were off before 6 am (we're getting better at this!), knowing that after this hike, we still had the 3.5 miles into JBL.
This time we started out in the light, so we managed to find the trail that we had missed on our first go-around when we did the Seward Range. The trail is marked with a small ‘trail’ sign – it’s easy to miss, especially if you’re hiking in the dark! At any rate, the junction is about 15 minutes past the trail register.
After a little up and down, we came to the junction with the truck road that (if you turn left) will take you to Calkin’s Creek Trail. We continued on over the flat terrain, crossing a few streams (one with a rickety bridge, several others require rock hopping) until we came to Blueberry Lean-To at 7:55, two hours after our starting time. From here, it was an easy walk past the cairn marking the Ward Brook trail up Seward (which we shook our poles at) and over to the Ward Brook Lean-To, where we stopped for a quick snack just after 8.
There was a bit of blow down along the path – one in
particular was a massive tree that required some negotiating – the branches
were in rather awkward spots to get around.
Soon after this, we hit the cairn + metal bucket that mark the start of
the herd path up Seymour.
We hit the summit early, and walked past it a little to look out over the Santononis. We took a few pictures then headed back to the summit for lunch (at 10:30). We were alone and enjoyed the peace and quiet, until a group of about 5 guys showed up. We headed back down, as there wasn’t much room up at the top.
The walk down took us about as long as the walk up – 2 hours. We ran into a family of 4 who were hiking up,
but otherwise didn’t see anyone else on the trails. It was a fairly uneventful hike – it’s a very
cute hike (yes, I called it cute) – that can be broken into 2-hour chunks – it’s
about 2 hours in from the trailhead on a mostly flat trail, 2 hours up the herd
path to the summit, then 2 hours down, and 2 hours out.
Ok, I know that technically Seymour Mountain is not part of the Seward Range, however they are accessed from the same trailhead, and (sort of, if you take the wrong trail) follow the same trail partly.
Our experience in the Sewards was not a good one (for a refresher, see here) and we weren't looking forward to our Seymour hike, but it had to get done. We had been planning to come down, stay at Johns Brook Lodge, and hike Gothics and Armstrong, so we figured why not come down a day early and tack on Seymour?
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| Typical Adirondack trail |
This time we started out in the light, so we managed to find the trail that we had missed on our first go-around when we did the Seward Range. The trail is marked with a small ‘trail’ sign – it’s easy to miss, especially if you’re hiking in the dark! At any rate, the junction is about 15 minutes past the trail register.
After a little up and down, we came to the junction with the truck road that (if you turn left) will take you to Calkin’s Creek Trail. We continued on over the flat terrain, crossing a few streams (one with a rickety bridge, several others require rock hopping) until we came to Blueberry Lean-To at 7:55, two hours after our starting time. From here, it was an easy walk past the cairn marking the Ward Brook trail up Seward (which we shook our poles at) and over to the Ward Brook Lean-To, where we stopped for a quick snack just after 8.
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| Cairn and bucket marking the Seymour trail |
We started to climb up the easy grade, enjoy the day and the
hike. The path was quite nice – it started
out at a moderate grade, and got steadily steeper (although not rock face steep). We certainly got a workout climbing up.
We hit the summit early, and walked past it a little to look out over the Santononis. We took a few pictures then headed back to the summit for lunch (at 10:30). We were alone and enjoyed the peace and quiet, until a group of about 5 guys showed up. We headed back down, as there wasn’t much room up at the top.
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| View of the Sants from Seymour |
Total climbing time: 8 hours, 16 minutes
Left trailhead at: 5:55, returned at 2:11
Summitted Seymour Mountain 10:10
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