West Thompson Lake

| August 6, 2012

West Thompson Lake

4.8 miles   ★★★★ unlike saturday, today was a wonderful day for a hike. a line of storms moved through the area last night and the humidity went away. this is a very interesting place, maintained by the army corps of engineers. i was here briefly last april, and have been wanting to come back. well maintained, […]

Quaddick Pond State Park & West Thompson Lake

| April 18, 2012

Quaddick Pond State Park & West Thompson Lake

★★★★  4.49 miles this was another 2-hike day. i did a 1.5 mile loop around quaddick pond state park with a friend. then a fabulous lunch. then i felt like i needed to do more, so after i left my friend’s house i went to west thompson lake and attempted the 3.5 mile circumnavigation of […]

Airline Trail & Tri-State Marker

| April 7, 2012

Airline Trail & Tri-State Marker

★★★★½  2.1 miles quick trip up the airline trail to the ct-ma-ri marker. the airline trail is a former railroad bed for a train that used to connect new york and boston, and ran through east thompson, ct. we hopped on at new road and east thompson road, the site of the only 4-train wreck […]