Lake Skemonto

Hanging out with Snurpee at Lake Skemonto. We've managed to get a bit further into the Harriman Backcountry with each passing week. On this trip we started off NY 106 past Little Long Pond at the victory trailhead and followed Victory right onto Ramapo Dunderberg up and over Parker Cabin Mountain and left onto Y-Triangle to lake Skemonto. From the direction we came from this spot feels perfectly remote however just over the hill in front of us is Sebago beach which is teeming with hundreds of people every summer weekend. The peacefulness of our lunch break on the lakes northern mini-penninsula was broken only by the quintessential unleashed barking dog that passed by. It's not that I don't like dogs it's I just don't like them cruising the parks trails unleashed. We hooked back up on the victory trail passing the appliance graveyard and closing our four mile loop with our baby girl.