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• Directions To Lucent Whippany Lobby
• Hiking Photographs
• Hiking Trail Event History
• Bears In New Jersey

• Hiking Date and Status:
• Saturday July 23rd
  
• Last Update: July 23rd
  

• Customary Practice:
• Plan for a three to four hour hike
• Bring a lunch and plenty of water
• Bevarages supplied at hike's end (soda and beer)

• Attendance:
• Please inform us of your attendance (respond to email address joehikers@jciccone.com)
• Waiting time is 15 minutes from hike time for individuals attending

• Hiking Trail Precautions:
• Tick and bug spray recommended
• Footwear for hiking recommended

• Weather Conditions:
• Mostly Sunny with temperature in the upper 80's - click here for weather info.
• For hourly weather info click here
• Last Update: July 23rd
  

• Meeting Time and Location:
•   10 AM at the Lucent Whippany Lobby

• 11 AM at the 2nd parking lot of the hiking site, on the left past the 2nd gate.
  

• Directions to Hiking Trail:
• Additional Directions From Mapquest. Do not refer to any address provided byMapquest.  Only use map routes and roads.

• Hiking Trail Distance, and Difficulty

• Hiking Trail Attractions
• Deer Park Pond with beavers
  
• View of Delaware Water Gap
  

Coming from Holmdel going north on the GSP:

• Take GSP to exit 142, Rte 78 east.
• Bear right at the toll booths, the two right most toll booths take you to Rte 78 east.
•  Go about 1 mile and take exit 54, Hillside exit.
• Take the first right to Hillside.
• Bear right at the intersection and go over the bridge.
• Immediately after the bridge take a right to Rte 78 west.
• Make no turns or exits until you reach exit 1B (about 15 miles ), Rte 78 west turns into Rte 24 west in about 5 miles.
• While on Rte 24 west take exit 1B, Rte 511, Whippany Road.
• The Lucent Technologies facility is on your right, about 3 miles.

• Carris Hill Hike Nov. 1999 (Jeanine Pan)
• Turtle Pictures (Joe Ciccone)
• Pyramid Mountain Hike Oct. 2001 (Vladmir Oksman)
• Sandy Hook Hike April. 2002 (Bill Jackwicz)
• Wawayanda State Park Hike Sept. 2002 (Monica Cheng and Pi-Chun Chen)
• Carris Hill Hike Oct. 2002 (Nan Feng and Pi-Chun Chen)
• High Mountain June 2003 (Adam Chen)
• AdirondackAugust 2003 (Eric Christensen)
• Patterson Iron Mine August 2003 (Don Johnson)
• Lewis Morris County Park Sept. 2003 (Don Johnson)
• Bald Mountain - Harriman NY Oct. 2003 (Nan Feng, Pi-Chun Cheng [PC], Mort Herman)

1998:

Trail #23 - Sherman Hoffman Sanctuary/Patriot's Trail

Trail #27 - Watchung Reservation

Trail #37 - Hartshorne Woods

NY Harriman - Bear Mountain

1999:

Trail #16 - Pyramid Mountain

Trail #22 - Jockey Hollow

NJ Kitatinny Park

Trail #11 - Norvin Green State Forest

Trail #19 - Mahlon Dickerson Reservation

Trail #12 - Carris Hill

2000:

Trail #20 - Allamuchy Mountain State Park

Trail #25 - Merrill Creek Reservoir

Trail #21 - Jenny Jump State Forest

Trail #5 - Mount Tammany

2001:

Trail #28 - Great Swamp

Trail #14 - Terrace Pond

Trail #37 - Hartshorne Woods

Trail #36 - Cheesequake State Park

Trail #16 - Pyramid Mountain

2002:

Trail #38 - Sandy Hook (Gateway National Recreation Area)

Lewis Morris County Park

Trail #25 - Merrill Creek Reservoir

Trail #17 - Wawayanda State Park

Trail #12 - Carris Hill

2003:

Frelinghuysen Arboretum

Circuit Trail  #4 - High Mountain

Adirondack - NY

Patterson Iron Mine

Lewis Morris County Park

Bald Mountain - Harriman NY

2004:

Trail #37 - Hartshorne Woods

Trail #4 - Rattlesnake Swamp to Catfish Pond

Trail #25 - Merrill Creek Reservoir

Bald Mountain - Harriman NY

2004:

Trail # 26 - Palisades

Co-Founders, 1998:

Joe Ciccone

Chu Ng

Zhibing Pan