Bud Brook Falls - June 2006

Yet another cloudy and cold weekend. Kristina and I are having to go further afield to find new waterfalls. This time we went to Bud Brook Falls on the Finger Lakes Trail in Dryden.

The Finger Lakes Trail doesn't necessarily connect all of the Finger Lakes. It starts in the Catskills and goes to Western Pennsylvania (it is part of the much larger North Country National Scenic Trail which goes the whole way to North Dakota).

We started at the Jim Schug trail and then followed the Finger Lakes trail along a road, and then across a pasture (under the watchful eyes of some horses in an adjacent field). The trail then went up a large hill. We scared some pretty big turkeys, and we managed to really upset some robins in the area. We got to the top of the hill, but then the trail went right down the other side. We exited to another field, staying along the treeline, and then we arrived at Bud Brook.

The falls weren't really that impressive, but our waterfall book had warned us as much in advance:
Bud Brook Falls

We continued on the trail, winding through the woods a bit. There was a special "field view" spur, marked in blue. We took it, and in case you were wondering, here is what the view looked like:
View Haloo

We then returned the way we came. Along the route we got to climb over a few stiles:
Stile

One of the stiles was broken so we also got to carefully climb under a barb-wire fence.

We made it back safely, and this will be our last adventure in Tompkins County for a while, stay tuned for another Western adventure...
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