SGSP N-S Traverses (5 Red Trails & The Nature Trail) Sleeping Giant State Park, Hamden, ~9 miles total (solo) July 17, 2011 I'm dumb. No, I'm not dumb for setting out to hike all 5 up and down red trails on a blisteringly hot and humid July day. And no, I'm not dumb for having written this page already but … [Read more...]
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BLT: Taine Mountain Trails
T'Aine't Much Here BLT/NC Taine Mountain Trails July 2015 This page describes the trails on the western side of Taine Mountain in Burlington. For the trails on the eastern side, in Farmington, go here. In my effort to be a true Burlington Land Trust Burlington Trail Master, I made it a point to revisit this … [Read more...]
Tunxis Burlington Region: White Dot Trail
"Stiling" and Profiling on the Tunxis Tunxis White Dot: Plymouth/Burlington/Harwinton, 9.1 miles April 27 & June 29, 2008 2015 Update: The White Dot didn’t change with all the 2014 Tunxis changes in Burlington, but since I combined my hike(s) of it with trails that did change, I have to change around this … [Read more...]
Tunxis Burlington Region: Yellow Dot
Tunxis Yellow Dot Trail Burlington, 9.1 miles April 20 and November 16, 2008 [2015 Update: Hoo boy. Major changes to this section! In late 2014, the Mainline Tunxis shifted west and was extended north to close the gap up to New Hartford - and is now totally different. So I "have to" change a bunch of Tunxis … [Read more...]
Tunxis Trail Afterword
5 Mainline Section Hikes, 6 Regional Hikes Began: 2/17/2008 (Southington) Finished: 10/20/2013 (Hartland) The following conversations are real, and the names are real. Karl is a fellow CFPA red-liner – that is, a CFPA Blue Blaze Challenge Completist, who actually just DID complete his CFPA Blue Blaze Challenge … [Read more...]
Tunxis Mainline Trail: Section 5
Section 5: Getting Into the Hartland Barkhamsted/Hartland, 13.1 miles, with my dad October 2013 My pops is no spring chicken, but he’s a rather fit septuagenarian. So he was pretty pumped for this 13 mile (or so) jaunt through the wilds of north central Connecticut. Granted, my dad lives in Delaware and has no … [Read more...]
Tunxis Mainline Trail: Section 4
Section 4: Hike Sundown New Hartford & Barkhamsted, 7.6 miles, with my dad April 2013 Over three and a half years. That’s how long it’s been since I’ve stepped foot on the 79 miles of Tunxis Trail. Three years and eight months. As pathetic as that is, it also highlights how great the CFPA Blue Trails challenge … [Read more...]
Pachaug: Pharisee Rock Trail
Oh Those Pharisees Pharisee Rock Trail, Sterling December 14, 2012 For starters, I don't really care about who the Pharisees were. If you do, rock on. I do care about the Pharisee Rock Trail though - the short one mile in, one mile out trail on the Pachaug Trail in the Ekonk section of Sterling. I realize … [Read more...]
Pomperaug Trail
Pomp and CTMQstance Pomperaug Trail, 4.6 miles in Oxford and Southbury January 14 & September 16, 2012 As I sit to write this I see that I apparently struggled several months ago in figuring out how to present this section of mid-Housatonic River Trails. The CFPA Walk Books call them "Lake Zoar Area Trails," … [Read more...]
AT in CT Section 1
Section 1 Hoyt Road to Route 341, 11.5 miles November 2011 and May 2012 Quick - what town do northbound AT hikers enter when they first encounter Connecticut? I'll give you a second. What's your answer? Most likely, you're wrong. The AT enters the Nutmeg State in Sherman. Sherman! I must admit that … [Read more...]
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