Of course, I missed the cairn and, seeing on my GPS that the peak was 90 degrees to my right, I bushwhacked up to the summit, joining the herd path near the top. VERY easy to miss it, like I did on my way up. That little cairn is where the herd path breaks off to the right. If you didn't know about the cairn, there's a good chance you'd miss the herd path. At this point, a herd path climbs up the slope to the summit. Roughly 3.6 miles from the trailhead, there is a small cairn along the right (west) side of the trail. The trail runs along the bottom of the shallow col separating Five Mile Mountain from a sub-peak to the east. In this area, you need to pay attention if you want to find the herd path to Five Mile's true summit. Brown Mountain has a mere 60 feet of topographic prominence and its higher parent is Huckleberry Mountain, so the descent southwest from Brown is gradual and minimal. View toward Lake George from Brown Mountain summitįrom Brown Mountain, the trail continues to the southwest. I vowed to visit the overlook at the edge of the cliff on the return trip and pushed on after a quick break. The view from the true summit is obstructed by trees. The summit area is relatively open and grassy with thin trees and the "bushwhack" to the high ground is little more than a walk through the grass. Sign at Brown Mountain summit, facing the trail. Well, next to it, as there is a short bushwhack on the right/northeast side of the trail required to reach the actual high ground.
Soon enough, about 1.7 miles from the trailhead, I was at the summit of Brown Mountain. Given how little attention is paid to the Tongue Range trails, it wouldn't shock me if these stick around until someone decides to come up with an ax or saw and clear it themselves. There were some trees lying across the trail. The trailhead is across the road from the parking. The lot is a gravel lot on the side of NY Route 9N that can hold approximately 10 vehicles. Later than I wanted to head out, but the parking lot was surprisingly empty. I started up the trail around 9:30 AM on a Sunday morning in May. The out-and-back from Deer Leap to Five Mile Mountain is approximately 7.3 miles with roughly 1,250 feet of total ascent. If desired, all six Tongue Range peaks could be done as a traverse by spotting a car at one of the two trailheads or having an additional driver. These peaks aren't nearly as interesting as the southern three on the range, but it's a moderate out-and-back hike from the Deer Leap trailhead at the north end of the Tongue Mountain Range trail. Brown, Huckleberry, and Five Mile Mountains are the northern thre e main peaks on the Tongue Range and Five Mile also happens to be the one 12ster peak that actually requires a bushwhack to the summit (Erebus can be claimed without reaching the summit).
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I wanted to get a challenge patch for my home region, so on a Sunday morning in early May, I decided to grab the last three peaks I needed and become a Lake George 12ster. Benchmark at the true summit of Five Mile Mountain
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