A micro log only cache along an unmarked trail on South Mountain. Bring a pen.
Puddingstone is a colloquial name for conglomerate, a rock made of pebbles held together in a sandy matrix. There are large puddingstone ledges in this area of the Catskills. How did all of those pebbles get here? The unit of rock here is called the Twilight Park Conglomerate. It’s named for a community, across Kaaterskill Clove, where some more nice exposures can be seen. The Twilight Park Conglomerate is part of the Catskill sequence. That’s sediment which washed out of the ancient Acadian Mountains during the Devonian time period. To the east those mountains once towered, perhaps as high as the Andes of today. Like all mountains, they suffered from weathering and erosion and slowly crumbled. During their destruction there were times when unusually large amounts of very coarse-grained material washed out of the mountains, traveling down steep mountain streams, and washing out onto the flat lands below.