Street and Nye, # 7,8 (7/15/09)

A beautiful day to go for a hike. My friend Rob and I decided on doing the tandem trailess mountains of Street and Nye out of the Adirondack Loj. As far as trailess treks that I have done so far this one was pretty straight forward. We had a moderate river crossing towards the beginning but it wasn't that bad; we managed to make it across by rock hopping. The trail up to the split was pretty easy to follow with only one spot that we had to stop and do a couple seconds of recon. Up until the last half mile or so before the split the trail was pretty open and simple. The last bit was more true to what I would expect a trailess to be, trail just wide enough to get through, navigating blowdown, and not seeing where the trail is leading. When we got to the split we were attacked by a swarm of black flies. We took just a minute before heading out to do Nye, which took all of 20-25 minutes to go there and back. Not a view to be had so no point of sticking around. The trail up Street had more climbing and certainly took a little longer than Nye to reach. No view from the actual top of Street, but with a small heard path off to the side we had a beautiful view of the MacIntyre Range. Unfortunately I also experienced the worst black flies of the year on the top so even with bug repellent on we only stayed for maybe 10-15 minutes. It took a little bit longer than expected to complete the hike, but overall was still a moderately easy and enjoyable hike.