It was such a relief to continue our adventures this past week on a trail that we have not yet conquered before. Thanks for picking a great trail, Rob.
We all met in Norwich at 9am on Saturday morning and shortly headed north together up RT2 toward Glasonbury in Rob's Volvo. After referring to the Connecticut Walk Book for directions a few times on how to get to the trailhead, we stopped not far off the bottom of exit 11 on Toll Gate Road and began to get ready for our hike. We were rushed into our gear and out into the woods because of the blistering wind that kept bitting onto us. None of us thought it was going to be that cold and windy, but once we were on our way, the trees and hills blocked the bitting wind and allowed us to warm up a bit.
We started our hike on what is called the Connector Trail, which follows RT2 east until it catches up with the Shenipsit trail about 0.9 miles away. The constant roaring of the traffic on the highway reminded us that we were not far away from civilization.
The Shenipsit trail traverses in a north-eastern direction through Meshomasic State Forest, and most it was wide enough to be labeled a Sofee trail. Also, there were two fairly steep hills along our way, one in the beginning and one at the end. Our goal this week was to do our loop-d-loop at a waterfall at about our 4 mile mark. The area where the waterfall is located is very beautifully, and we took advantage of it by snapping most of our pictures there.
We later had attempted to have lunch at Macaroni Grill in Manchester, but found that it had closed down. That was a shock to all of us, so we headed over to Ted's Montana Grill, not far away. We did our latte ritual, and then ventured home.
Thanks to Rob for doing the driving this week.
See everyone next!
Joe
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