BALDHEAD & MOOSE MOUNTAINS bushwhack hikes in the Wilcox Lake Wild Forest
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More info in ADK's Eastern Adirondacks guidebook & lots of info in Bill Ingersoll's Discover the Southern Adirondacks guidebook. Oct 5, 2023 - MOOSE MOUNTAIN hike, in the eastern Wilcox Lake WF near Stony Creek. Originally, I was planning to start on Tucker/Brannon Rd & bushwhack all the way past Burnt Mtn & Welch Vly, but after consulting with a friend & reading the description in Bill Ingersoll's Discover the Southern Adirondacks (Ingersoll states "Permission is given to walk this road to the property of Dominick Di Lorenzo and cross his private lands at the end of the road to state land." We did chat with 2 people driving up on an ATV & they said nothing negative. We decided to start (1150' el) by walking up Bit & Bridle Rd, a rough at times 4WD road with several camps along it. Both sides of the road are posted. Driving from the E, we saw a sign on Brannon Rd: bridge out 1/4 mile, so we drove into Stony Creek & headed up T...