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Metacomet-Monadnock Trail 4/18-19/09
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Apr 20, 2009 at 12:50 pm #1235735
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.Apr 20, 2009 at 3:16 pm #1495694Nice 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.)
Apr 21, 2009 at 5:48 am #1495839Surprisingly, 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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