Video: “Getting High” Near NYC

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What to do if you’re a mountain-loving trail runner stranded in the Big Apple? Why, take a short train ride to the Hudson Highlands, of course!

In this video, by artist Rob Riccardo, two New York denizens head one hour north and tackle the difficult Breakneck Ridge-Mount Beacon Traverse, characterized by forest trails and scrambles up and down large, rounded boulders. Sometimes, as Riccardo puts it, you just have to “find some sanity from life in Manhattan.”

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