Date Hiked: Thursday, June 1, 2017
Estimated distance: 4.52 miles
Weather: 75°F, partly cloudy
Resources:
Holcomb Farm, Holcomb Farm Trail Map, McLean Game Refuge Trail Map
Highlights of the trip: waterfall, snake, millipede
Progress toward
2017 Outdoor Goals: 20/52 hikes; 69.83/250 miles hiked
I should have waited a day to take this hike. I ended up picking a warm, rather humid day and if I had waited one more day it would have dried out and there would have been a bit of a breeze. Oh, well. It was still a good hike.
I parked at Holcomb Farm in West Granby, went across the CSA fields and over the West Branch of Salmon Brook. I took the Holcomb Trails to the orange, Northwest Passage Trail which comes out on Broad Hill Road. From there, I took the dirt road to Carpenter Falls. On the way back down, I zig-zagged my way down the Holcomb Farm Trails.
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| Bridge over West Branch of Salmon Brook. |
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| Yellow trail leading to stairs. |
Before I got to the stairs, I happened to see a couple of folding chairs in the woods. I decided to walk over and take a look and see if there was some reason there were chairs sitting out here. I have seen some crazy stuff in the woods, so you never know. The craziest was a gorilla suit dressed up with blaze orange hunting vest and hat that my kids thought might be a dead body. (What the heck? I saw reference to it later in a geocaching post). Nothing that strange this time, just chairs. But, then I turned around...
Ugh. I sure hope I wasn't caught on camera! I may find out, because when I was hiking with my friend a few days later she said her son was one of the kids charged with taking care of the cameras at Holcomb Farm. MH, please delete my picture!
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| Top of Carpenter Falls with plaque on rock. |
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| Below the falls. |
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| Falls are part of Beach Brook. |
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| I hadn't initially noticed this jumble of boulders. |
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| Looking downstream from the falls. |
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| Common garter snake did not move when I got close. |
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| Millipede. |
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| Beach Brook near southern end of Holcomb trails before joining Salmon Brook. |
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| Heading back across fields of Holcomb Farm CSA. |
Ugh. I know I have to expect cameras on city streets and in public buildings -- and even at people's houses -- but one should be safe from at least that danger in the woods!
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