 The travel levels off from its gentle climb, and starts heading due north, as it crosses some brooks and the hemlock stands around them.Postings marking the back bounds of some private lots are still visible through the distance, as are some unauthorized trails to those lands.Finally some more gentle ascending into a more beech-dominant forest heralds the beginning of Pine Plains, 1.25 miles (2 km) from the Huckleberry Point junction, as the trail also begins to curve to the west.