This is the spur off the main DEC Road up and over South Mountain. It leads part of the way up Richmond Mountain before it peters out to a logging road. Notice how the DEC has clear cut this area.

You can see where they have clear cut this section, just above the hairpin turn. They took the wood they wanted, and left a lot of logging trash for critters to live in until a new forest grows on up.

This is up on the ridge of South Mountain, below Ashland Pinnacle. The trail was hard to follow through this section, as a lot of trees that had blazes on them where long fallen, although for a while the trail followed the log haul road.

Looking around and exploring the area, showing the big clear cut between South Mountain Truck Trail, and spur up towards Richmond Mountain.

There is a long path marker on the haul road and buffer between clear cut zones, but following it through all that logging trash was a pain, as all the markers where gone, and trail was rough. I lost the trail, then later found it again. Yet I decided to turn back, when I found the rest of the trail was all grown over and the markers where faded. A lot of the land up on Huntersfield Mountain Range is private, and I did not want to be trespassing.

This portion of the Long Path was a little easier to follow, due to be along the log haul road, but there still was relatively few markers. Just past here, I turned back, as it was too difficult to follow, and it was getting late, having spent so much time looking for the trail.