Sunday, April 29, 2007

On top of Massachusetts

Howie and I hiked up the highest peak in Massachusetts today ... Mount Greylock. It was an appropriate mountain on this grey, overcast day.

From Notch Road, we started out on the Bellows Pipe trail which is an old woods road. We stopped at a lean-to for a break and then continued on up to the ridge. We then took the Appalachian Trail (AT) south to the summit area. It was foggy on top with no views. After a quick lunch break, we headed north on the AT over Fitch mountain. The trail along the ridge still had patches of soft,wet snow. We then went down the Bernard Farms trail passing a small plane crash site along the way. It started to sprinkle very lightly (I call it spittle). We made it back to the car before the rain got heavier. Saw only a few other hikers in the woods today.

Summit Elevation: Greylock 3,491 ft
Round-trip Distance: 9 mi
Elevation Change: 2200 ft


Lean-to


In front of the war memorial


Small plane crash

2 comments:

Queen Monkey said...

Did you find any of the cast members of "Lost" near the plane crash?

BTW - You can probably remove the NWF donation ask. Thx

Grog said...

Judging by the wreckage, I don't think anyone could have survived.