Our first hike took us from the Breakneck Ridge Trail (conveniently next to the MTA train station of the same name) past Sunset Point, up to the summit of South Beacon Mountain and into Beacon, NY. Including our not-short walk through Beacon, NY, total time was 8 hours.
Seth came along and helped us follow the many trails we were on that day. We only got lost a couple times!
On the way home we ate delicious cheeseburgers at “Max’s On Main” in Beacon, after which we hopped on a NYC-bound train.
I picked this hike for us to start with because I knew it would be very fun, but also very difficult, and it would give us the confidence to try other difficult day hikes. So far, that has been the case.