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A lovely afternoon stroll through Harriman State Park.  We did a 5-mile loop from the Reeves Meadow visitor center: up Reeves Brook (white) to Seven Hills (blue on white) to Raccoon Brook Hills (black on white) to Hillburn-Torne-Sebago (orange) to Pine Meadow (red on white).

The promised cascades of Reeves Brook were - alas! - dry and silent, but it was otherwise a lovely hike.  Plenty of climbs and scrambles and views.  Good company.  A few tiny blueberries.  Lots of joyous insect sounds.  Variety of terrain.

The orange-blazed section was not as well maintained as the rest and was at times very difficult to follow (at one point the vegetation was seriously overgrown, in certain other points the blazes were so faded that they looked like bits of lichen), but we managed to find our way nonetheless with the aid of a good trail description.

We saw some city skylines from near the Pulpit viewpoint (Sal guessed that the one on the top left was NYC; I can no longer pick NYC out of a lineup but it seems plausible to me):