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State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites
State Highpointing Intro
Why State Highpointing?
Land Trust Trails
Connecticut Hiking Challenges & Rewards
CFPA Trails & The Blue Trails Challenge
Town Owned Trails
Peakbagging Tallies
Highpointing and Peak-Bagging Intro

HLCT: Servoss/Mather Street

May 6, 2013 by Steve Leave a Comment

Servoss/Mather Street (165 Mather Street) Hamden Land Conservation Trust May 5, 2013 If you have read my HCLT Powder Farm page, then you at least know a little bit about the Olin Corporation’s history in this part of the state. (In all honesty, they simply owned Winchester who blew stuff up back during WWII and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: Animals, Hamden, Hamden Land Conservation Trust

HLCT: Powder Farm

May 6, 2013 by Steve 5 Comments

Powder Farm Hamden Land Conservation Trust May 5, 2013 I haven’t yet decided if I love or loathe the Hamden Land Conservation Trust’s habit of naming their properties by simply stating their addresses. I’m happy to report that the HLCT has changed their entire property nomenclature and they now all have normal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: Hamden, Hamden Land Conservation Trust

Hamden Land Conservation Trust Trails Intro

May 6, 2013 by Steve 1 Comment

Hamden Land Conservation Trust Trails Hamden Way back in the day (2013), this page read differently. There's really no point in alerting you to what's different, but I will say that the Hamden Land Conservation Trust has updated their own website in a way that makes sense to me. So I'm following suit. This … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: Hamden, Hamden Land Conservation Trust

Onion Mountain Park

April 23, 2013 by Steve 4 Comments

Nothing to Cry About Onion Mountain Park trails, Simsbury April 21, 2013 In 2022, the Canton Land Conservation Trust linked this park to Roaring Brook Nature Center via the Onion Mountain Trail. I am falling in love with West Simsbury and North Canton. They have a "wildness" to them that is especially cool in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Simsbury, simsbury town trails

Tunxis Mainline Trail: Section 4

April 17, 2013 by Steve 5 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: CFPA Hikes, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles Tagged With: Barkhamsted, Blue Trails Challenge, Great Views, New Hartford, Satan!, Tunxis Trail

Pachaug: Pharisee Rock Trail

December 12, 2012 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: CFPA Hikes, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles Tagged With: Blue Trails Challenge, Cool Rocks, Great Views, pachaug state forest, Pachaug Trail, Sterling

Ketchin Quarry

November 21, 2012 by Steve 1 Comment

Step'n Ketch'it Simsbury Land Trust’s Ketchin Quarry, Simsbury November 2012 I feel weird. Weird because I take pride in writing almost every word on this site; only cutting and pasting in rare circumstances. But for this page, about a ridiculously short little "hike" along Quarry Road in Simsbury, it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: Cool Rocks, Simsbury, Simsbury Land Trust

Pomperaug Trail

September 25, 2012 by Steve 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: CFPA Hikes, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Beach, Blue Trails Challenge, Kettletown State Park, Lake Zoar Area Trails, Oxford, Pomperaug Trail, Southbury

Panther Mountain (Winter)

September 9, 2012 by Steve 1 Comment

18a. Panther Mountain, 3,720 feet (Winter) March 8, 2012 6.3 miles solo via Phoenicia-East Branch Trail and Giant Ledge - Panther Mountain Trail # 18 on the Catskills 3500 List One of the unique things about the Catskills 3500 Club is that it requires completers to summit four of the climbs twice; with one hike … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Peakbagging Tagged With: Cat35'ers, Great Views, New York

Colorado

September 5, 2012 by Steve 1 Comment

Highpoint #21 Mt. Elbert, 14,433 feet (3rd highest in US) July 2, 2012 They said I couldn’t do it. Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado highpoints starting and ending at the Denver airport; 1400 miles of driving between 3PM on a Saturday and ending with my flight at 4PM on Monday? “No way,” they told me. After … [Read more...]

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

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