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CTMQ > Hikes, Bikes & Paddles

Highpointing and Peak-Bagging Intro

September 28, 2017 by Steve 3 Comments

This Page Needs More Prominence! Highpointing & Peakbagging Don't tell anyone, but this is perhaps my favorite pursuit. Moreso than museums. If I had the time, I’d devote a lot of time to these lists. As life would have it, what with two little kids and a job and all that, these are pretty much life-long … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Non-CT, Peakbagging Tagged With: 52WAV, ADK46'ers, Cat35'ers, CT county highpoints, Geographic Extremes, NE111, NE67, NEFF, NEHH, NH48, state highpoints, T25

CFPA Trails & The Blue Trails Challenge

March 13, 2017 by Steve 1 Comment

Connecticut Forest & Parks Association Trails 2006 - Skip Intro and Jump down to Trail List There are nearly 1,000 miles of CFPA hiking trails in many different towns in little ol' Connecticut. This list follows the organization's Blue Trails Challenge List and their published Walk Books. The CFPA is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CFPA Hikes, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles Tagged With: Blue Trails Challenge

Connecticut Hiking Challenges & Rewards

January 26, 2015 by Steve 7 Comments

Bring Them On! If you know anything about me, you know that I'm a sucker for hiking challenges. Peak-bagging and high-pointing and red-lining get me more excited than you'd ever believe. There are a slew of such challenges all over New England and New York – as well as all over the country and world. Real life makes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Hiking Challenges Tagged With: Blue Trails Challenge, CT17'ers, Giant Master, Hikes with my Boys, Sky's the Limit Challenge, Steep Rock Hiker's Challenge

Town Owned Trails

October 30, 2013 by Steve 1 Comment

169 Towns, 10,069 Trails (est.) Town Managed/Owned Trails This section has always been sort of hard to define, but now that I've focused more on what's out there in the woods, I've come to love it. Almost every trail you'll navigate to through this page is on land owned by the town it is in. That's the idea … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Town Land Hikes

Land Trust Trails

October 26, 2013 by Steve 2 Comments

Land Trust Me, You Don't Want to Do This Connecticut’s Land Trusts & Their Trails For several years, this introductory paragraph used to say some stuff about how this page was ridiculous because no way would I ever even consider hiking all of the trails on all of our various land trusts’ properties. I just didn’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes

State Highpointing Intro

May 25, 2013 by Steve 3 Comments

I started documenting our highpointing trips back in early 2002 after we summitted our first state, Rhode Island. Back then, I wrote trip reports on a PC, printed them off, and inserted pictures like a 6th grade book report. I did this solely for myself, even though I felt all-the-while that I'd be transferring these … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Peakbagging Tagged With: state highpoints

Peakbagging Tallies

October 20, 2010 by Steve 4 Comments

Tallywhacker 2001 - To those of you who don’t need an explanation for this page, let’s have a beer together. For the rest of you... why are you even here? Actually, that sounds mean... Welcome! This is our ongoing tally of peakbagging lists. I expect and hope mine and Calvin’s ratios will continue to improve. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Peakbagging Tagged With: 52WAV, ADK46'ers, Cat35'ers, CT county highpoints, CT17'ers, NE111, NE67, NEFF, NEHH, NH48, state highpoints, T25

State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites

July 17, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

Stately List State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, Natural Area Preserves, Wildlife Management & Field Trial Areas, & Campsites This page was a huge mess for CTMQ’s first 10 years. Connecticut makes such a simple sounding list incredibly difficult to organize for a bunch of reasons that you don’t care about. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites

Why State Highpointing?

May 25, 2007 by Steve 1 Comment

"Why?" "What the heck?" "What's the purpose of that?" "I don't get it." These are but a few of the comments I've heard since I became aware of highpointing and decided it was a goal I'd like to pursue. And that was just from my (at the time of this writing) fiancee, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Non-CT, Peakbagging, Travel Tagged With: state highpoints

Great Falls

June 14, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Sometimes Great Great Falls, Canaan/Salisbury February 2017 At some point someone dubbed Great Falls - also known as Canaan Falls - "The Niagara Falls of New England." In 2015 or so, the go-to New England waterfall resource first said, "If you are unable to make it to Niagara Falls in New York this summer, this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Appalachian Trail, Calvin, Canaan, Canals and Dams, Damian, Litchfield County, Salisbury, Waterfalls

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