Metacomet-Monadnock Trail 4/18-19/09

[Ryan Linn]

Another BPLer, Gary, and I decided to kick off the Northeast backpacking season with 35 miles in two days on the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail in Western Massachusetts. We started near the Leverett Village Co-op and went over the Holyoke Range to the Connecticut River. It's not as spectacular as some places out west, or even the White Mountains and Adirondacks, but it was a nice bit of trail. Here are a few pics.

An old house foundation along the trail.

The green tunnel.

Buffam Brook in the Pelham Forest

Northampton, Amherst, and the Connecticut River from the Holyoke Range.

Mount Holyoke and the Summit House.

[Walter Carrington]

Nice pictures. Was there much ice damage along the trail? (For people outside New England, Dec. 11 there was a bad ice storm, 2" of ice here in North Central Mass. and severe damage.)

[Ryan Linn]

Surprisingly, the only ice damage I noticed was on the road down from the top of Mt Holyoke, which I walked on for a short distance between trails. After seeing the damage in southern NH, I was pretty surprised that it seemed like the M-M in this area was untouched.

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