This is the perfect spring day. Temperatures, judging by feel, have to be around 70°, with low humidity. The sky is a deep blue.
I left the bike n the garage today as Helaine and I set out to hike in Sleeping Giant State Park. It's a beautiful place and only five minutes from here.
We thought we were heading up the main trail to the castle at the summit, but after 30 seconds, I realized we'd gone wrong. Oh, what the hell, we just kept walking up the Yellow Trail.
My cellphone rang. It was Stef, calling from college. Later, I snapped some pictures with the camera in the cellphone and uploaded them to Flickr.
Am I missing the purpose of the great outdoors?
The GPS didn't get a good fix until we were halfway up the trail, but it looks like we did about two miles in 45 minutes. It's a hilly trail with lots of big rocks poking up and making footing a challenge.
We'll be back.
The yellow is 2.2 miles end to end. Why not print out http://www.sgpa.org/colormap.pdf
Tuesday was also clear as a bell, so my faithful companion, Pumpkin Pie, and I climbed up to Norton Outlook on the Tunxis Blue Trail on the Wolcott-Southington town line. The view was spectacular Tuesday and we could see as far away as Long Island Sound to the South and Mt. Monadnock to the NNE.
We also found the wreck of a circa 1950 pickup truck in the middle of the woods. Either it dropped out of the sky or the forest grew up around it.