This is how you know you’ve found a good hike:

This weekend, I went with Jessie to Palisades Park, just across the Hudson River in New Jersey, to hike the Giant Stairs route to Peanut Leap Cascade.

While the hike is only four miles in total, it drops down the entire 600 feet of the Palisades bluffs in less than 1/5 of a mile, proceeds for several miles of scrambling and semi-technical climbing over long stretches of riverside boulder, then ascends back up the bluffs as quickly as it came down.

All told, the trek took us just under three hours. Or possibly seven, if you count in the four hours we spent lying on the floor exhausted once we got back home.