Discussion: loch raven

which part? daddy-o and I did some mapping of the south side(including cromwell valley park) sections back in the day. I'm sure he still has the ocad files, if he hasn't sent them to you already.

I'm located here now. There is access to a pretty nice chunk down the road to the SE, but I found a trail in the green finger just to the N which leads to the powerline. I used to run a loop on this power line from my old place, and there is a very good trail continuing N down that same reentrant from the powerline. I didn't know there was one going south from the PL there, but it comes out within 50m of my front door. Not sure how the access will be through there in summer though.

I have a color hardcopy of the piece you guys maped farther south and I run with it there occasionally. daddy-o told me this weekend he has an OCAD base of other parts of the lake already. Would be nice to find some engineering-type maps someplace to start with. There are several nice chunks around the lake. You guys have alread mapped a big one. The area directly E across the lake from your map is another excellent piece. The area around me might work out nicely if I can tie it all in through my complex to make it effectively wider.

Of interest: check out the old cemetary E from you down near the lake. This can be seen on the large view of your topo link above (not the other one on the small view). Across the trail from the cemetary are the remains of an old blast furnace dating back to the Ridgleys of Hampton Mansion fame. They owned all this land and smelted iron ore for cannon balls during the Revolutionary war, making a nice fortune.