Section suggestion in CT/MA?

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#1

So…it looks like my hiking plans have changed.

Anyone know of a good section to hike in CT/MA?

We’d be starting Sunday afternoon and going til Thursday…so I guess about 4 days, maybe 4 and a half. 50 miles would work, but not against doing more.

Thanks!

Leki-Less

#2

Leki-Less. Hope your doing well. Why don’t you just knock off the entire state of Connecticut (51 miles). It is a beautiful state. Start in the south, close to the railroad station in Pawling, NY. First Shelter is Ten Mile River a nice Lean-to. You would then walk along the Housatonic River, the Schaghticoke Indian Reservation, pass some very nice New England towns of Kent and West Cornwall, then into Falls Village and then into Salisbury also a nice trail town. From Salisbury you have about an 8 mile hike to the MA state line. I think it is a great section hike. From the state line you can hike into Great Barrington and get transportation out. Let us know. I’ll be up there in June to hike MA/VT/NH.

Bilko

#3

Hey Bilko,

Thanks. Yeah, we’re considering that, actually. Maybe end after Sages Ravine. Another thought I had was to end on Greylock and start somewhere between 50 and 70 miles south of it. And ANOTHER idea was to do from just before Sages Ravine near the MA/CT line and go to Greylock, but then we’re talking close to 90 miles in 4 and a half days.

I remember MA being a fairly nice section of trail as well. Would you vote CT over the stretch before Greylock?

Leki-Less

#4

I’ll let you know after I hike that section in June. I wouldn’t try too many miles in a short section of time. You would be more concerned with distance covered than the covered distance. Stay with the 50 miles.

Bilko

#5

Do CT. Go north, spend your last night at Sages Ravine, backtrack a mile and blue blaze it down to CT 41. You’ll be a few miles from Salisbury.
That 50 mile stretch has great variety.

jas

#6

I think we’ll probably do CT, though I’m not positive yet. Instead of backtracking, maybe we’ll just continue through Sages Ravine to whatever the next road crossing is.

Kinda wanna make it back to Greylock eventually one way or another, though, as that is where I spent the night before finishing my hike 2 or 3 days later. Specifically, I’m hooping they still have a register that was there in 2004. I want to read my last register entry, the last line or two of which made it into a USA TODAY article by a writer who visited the Lodge a few months later.

Leki-Less

#7

FYI, there is no trail that follows Sages Raving Brook east to Route 41. Is is very dangerous to pass that way. We’ve had one death and 2 very serious injuries as well as several other injuries requiring evacuation that put our first responders in very difficult and dangerous situations to extract these unfortunate victims. If you stay at Sages you can hike back south on the AT for about .3 mile to the junction with Paradise Land trail and follow that to the Undermountain Trail and proceed downhill, reaching Route 41, Undermountain Road, in 2.1 miles. Or, you can follow the AT north to the Race Brook Falls trail and follow that trail 1.9 miles to Route 41 in Massachusetts.

The Walking Stomach, CT AMC Ridgerunner