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August 15, 1983: From Sages Ravine, the #AppalachianTrail climbed steeply to another wooded plateau.
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In the middle of a cool dark hemlock forest, it crossed Bear Rock Stream near the eastern rim of the plateau.
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I took a short side trip to one of my favorite places on earth, following the stream east off the trail for about fifty yards to a spot where the flat ground ends like an abrupt stroke of a giant axe and a high cliff towers above the broad, bucolic upper Housatonic Valley.
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The southern tip of the Berkshires seemed to spring just as suddenly from the flattish valley floor a few miles away on the valley's eastern edge.
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A few feet behind me the stream plunged over the edge of the plateau, the beginning of a tall series of cascades. I took another fifteen-minute break there.
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From Bear Rock Stream, the next mile-and-a-half of the Appalachian Trail ascended Race Mountain, picking its way up a boulder-strewn slope softened by a carpet of fallen hemlock needles. The last half-mile of that climb threaded a narrow perch atop massive naked rock cliffs.
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The AT then crossed another rocky, scrubby summit area. Hawks drifted lazily on the smooth thermals of a mid-August afternoon, soaring high above the valley below.

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