Trompies

[jducoeur]

Given the lovely weather (slightly cool, sunny, overall what I want out of October), today we wandered out to the Middlesex Fells Reservation for a gentle hike. We wound up doing the Crystal Springs and Whip Hill Road Loop -- officially "Easy" on AllTrails (having discovered in the Berkshires that their definition of "Moderate" can be pretty challenging for us), but at the "occasionally clambering up rocks" level of Easy, rather than the "gentle walk through the forest" level.

Really a fine way to spend an hour or so -- the loop is a couple of miles (and a couple hundred feet elevation), which we supplemented by a bit of extra loop to fill out our available time. It wasn't really empty (unsurprising on a nice Saturday), but there were few enough people that we could go maskless most of the time, and just put them on when we saw people approaching.

Recommended for city folks who are looking for a chance to get outside without hordes of people around, if you are up for some non-trivial but not terribly hard ups and downs and uneven terrain...

Comments

[writerkit]

If only probably-COVID had not wrecked my lungs, I would be *all over* this; I love clambering up rocks.