Post by sugarloaf on May 22, 2010 6:07:38 GMT -5
Lots of work on the new trails in Pittsburg will make available more miles of pathways in the far north soon.
The Moose Alley Trail is complete and folks are hiking it now. The Falls in the River Trail from Second Connecticut Lake Dam south is complete to the falls and flume and more work has been done south of that toward Big Brook. In early June, that trail should be complete. We will try to link it to the Moose Alley Trail then.
If all goes well, we may be able to move the heavy planks for the big bog bridge span into place on the Camp Otter Trail and spike down the puncheons so that that path can come on line in June, too.
That would make it possible to hike from Camp Otter Road all the way to the Second Connecticut Lake boat launch access road, eliminating seven or eight miles of road walking. That would bring some fine new terrain on line in open hardwood and softwood mixed forest and put trampers in contact with several wild sections of the Connecticut River, a flume and falls, a fine view across First Connecticut Lake to the mountain king, Mt. Magalloway (down a very short spur trail), and, quite possibly, moose.
Still need one permission to cut 600 feet of new trail on the backside of Mt. Prospect to finish the Mt. Prospect Trail over that low summit with its jaw-dropping view. Hopefully, we'll have that permission in hand shortly and can open that trail in June, as well.
Cohos Trail Association officers Pete and Lainie Castine have been working like mad to open these trails and have enlisted volunteers to help, as well. If you would like to volunteer, please email cohos@cohostrail.org. Hard work was never so pleasant.
sugarloaf
The Moose Alley Trail is complete and folks are hiking it now. The Falls in the River Trail from Second Connecticut Lake Dam south is complete to the falls and flume and more work has been done south of that toward Big Brook. In early June, that trail should be complete. We will try to link it to the Moose Alley Trail then.
If all goes well, we may be able to move the heavy planks for the big bog bridge span into place on the Camp Otter Trail and spike down the puncheons so that that path can come on line in June, too.
That would make it possible to hike from Camp Otter Road all the way to the Second Connecticut Lake boat launch access road, eliminating seven or eight miles of road walking. That would bring some fine new terrain on line in open hardwood and softwood mixed forest and put trampers in contact with several wild sections of the Connecticut River, a flume and falls, a fine view across First Connecticut Lake to the mountain king, Mt. Magalloway (down a very short spur trail), and, quite possibly, moose.
Still need one permission to cut 600 feet of new trail on the backside of Mt. Prospect to finish the Mt. Prospect Trail over that low summit with its jaw-dropping view. Hopefully, we'll have that permission in hand shortly and can open that trail in June, as well.
Cohos Trail Association officers Pete and Lainie Castine have been working like mad to open these trails and have enlisted volunteers to help, as well. If you would like to volunteer, please email cohos@cohostrail.org. Hard work was never so pleasant.
sugarloaf
Fine dayhike, or a good lunch spot on a through-hike. Parts of that trail segment are only a few yards from Rt. 3, but being off the pavement at all makes a huge difference. Last year when I hiked from Big Diamond Pond to the border, I was on Rt. 3 for a good chunk of the way because the proposed off-road trail segments were seriously overgrown after a rainy June. I had a great trip then, but this year's hikers will do even better.