Training Log Archive: cmorse

Out with Dave A for some trail running & exploration. Started off by knocking the Old Furnace Trail off our Blue Trail List. Very nice trail, good footing, interesting, nice vista - not terribly long though... But still very fine running. 50ish, light showers...

Original plan was to go up and do some exploring at George Washington ('87 US Champs, '89 Troll Cup) but since I had company and we were in eastern CT, we opted to go and bang out some additional Blue Trail mileage and headed down to Quinebaug. Found the right road ok, parked in an obvious DEEP parking area, headed down the only trail out of parking area but no blue blazes? Went a ways before deciding to go back and actually RTFM.. Trail actually unmarked 1/4 mile or so back up the road, but book said a trail existed from parking area (yeah right). So we wound up bashing through the woods, paralelling the road until we found a trail with blue blazes. Compared to Old Furnace, this was a pretty uninspiring bit of trail - old rocky woods roads, lots of mud pits due to ATV usage, blue trail would suddenly diverge with minimal or no blazes so a few off-course excursions ensued. Pleasant enough though. Dave had family committments so we didn't do the whole thing, but we can come back and do the S part when we come back for some of the trails in the Patchaug system.