Tor - a hill or rocky peak, a high craggy hill. The word comes from Old English - Welsh in origin. The Gaelic word
torr means lofty hill or mound. Our own Hi Tor is appropriately named. I have hiked, biked, and run Hi Tor for 30 years and never knew what tor meant; it took a stint in the flat lands of Ohio and teaching the Sherlock Holmes classic the
Hounds of the Baskerville. The mystery is set in a boggy
'tor' region of the English countryside and to understand the story you need to understand the setting - my new vocab word was 'tor' and I finally looked it up...
What a day for a hike - it finally felt like spring. We hiked up the north rim of Conklin Gully, a steep push up and a narrow trail that skirts very close to the rim in places. It is a trail you need to be aware of your steps on. The views are amazing. The trail is unmarked, but defined. It ends in the creek bed and you have to scramble the creek up to Angel Falls - a box canyon. There are multiple small falls along the way to Angle Falls. We then turned around hiked back down to the new bridge on the blue spur trail which took us to the orange Finger Lakes Trail. We followed the trail north across Hi Tor to drop onto the Naples Community Park. Along the way the sun was shinning and we enjoyed glimpses of the lake that will be gone with the full bloom of leaves in a few weeks.
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| Creek bed hiking to Angel Falls |
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| Approach to Angel Falls |
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| Hi Tor - view from South Rim of Conklin Gully |
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| small waterfall |
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| Angel Falls |
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| New 'plastic' bridge |
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| Cooperative Volleyball |
What a day for a hike - it finally felt like spring. We hiked up the north rim of Conklin Gully, a steep push up and a narrow trail that skirts very close to the rim in places. It is a trail you need to be aware of your steps on. The views are amazing. The trail is unmarked, but defined. It ends in the creek bed and you have to scramble the creek up to Angel Falls - a box canyon. There are multiple small falls along the way to Angle Falls. We then turned around hiked back down to the new bridge on the blue spur trail which took us to the orange Finger Lakes Trail. We followed the trail north across Hi Tor to drop onto the Naples Community Park. Along the way the sun was shinning and we enjoyed glimpses of the lake that will be gone with the full bloom of leaves in a few weeks. 
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