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A beautiful day to be out on a beautiful mountain. Started at the Hopper Trail in Williamstown, then got on the Money Brook Trail to the falls. Deep into the Hopper, where the low angle of the sun doesn't hit, it was a little chilly in there. Reached the Notch Road, and took the Old Summit...

The final leg of my exploration of Lenox Mountain, this time the northern end. I started on West Mountain Rd. and hiked on Audubon property to the top of The Cobble. I descended the west side of that hill, and came into an overgrown field. Thick with barberry, Oriental bittersweet vines...

Took a short 2 1/2 mile RT hike on the new Old Mill Trail in Hinsdale/Dalton. The trail was constructed this spring by Americorps volunteers, with the first 1/2 mile in Hinsdale being handicap accessible. The trail starts across from Hinsdale Trading Post, and follows the Housatonic River down...

It was about 10 above when I left the trail head for the Thunderbolt Ski Trail. The climb up was pretty straight forward as I didn't need snowshoes, as long as I stayed on the traveled path. Micro-spikes worked great for traction! I've used them with excellent results on flat ice while ice...

A cool start to a morning hike up Greylock from the Gould Trail. The Gould Trail had some water in it after Saturday's rains, but not too bad. This trail gets some pretty good maintainance of it's water bars. The first scheduled attraction was a trip over to the Peck's Brook leanto, to check out...

Jim Moore and I had our appetites whetted on a trip we took last month up to the Pulpit Rock area of Sykes Mountain in Pittsfield/Washington. Judging by the amount of stone quarries evident on the mountain, we decided another trip to look for the cellar holes and quarries of the Sykes(Sikes)...

My original intention with this hike was to start at the top of Rt. 20 in Hancock, and head north to Berry Pond on the Taconic Crest Trail. I had spent the previous night searching the internet for trail descriptions of the TCT, but there were very few descriptions, and most were hazy at best...

This slide came down on 8/7/1990, the same year as it's much larger cousin on the other side of the mountain (Indian Head slide). The slide is approached through the Haley Farm parking lot, and the Money Brook trail. Follow Money Brook trail for 1.25 miles to the bridge that crosses Hopper Brook...

After seeing this slide from Stony Ledge last month, I decided to check it out. The last time I was on Stony in 2002, I don't remember seeing it, so I've been trying to find out the age of it. A couple of contacts told me they thought it was from the same year the larger slide on the east face...

While climbing up Greylock from Stony Ledge yesterday, I noticed a land slide on Greylock that I don't recall seeing in the past. Its on the west face, just to the north of the March Cataract Falls. Here's a picture I took; I haven't been to Stony Ledge in a couple of years, and perhaps I...

I got to tackle Greylock today, as I was supposed to have jury duty, but my pool # was told not to report! I went up the Stony Ledge Trail, which was mostly dry. The view of the summit from Stony is super, then I walked the Sperry Rd. to the Hopper Trail, and followed that to the summit. It was...

I wanted to combine a trip up Squaw Peak with a trip across Monument Mnt. range to Flag Rock. Topo doesn't show a continuous trail connecting the two points, but a bushwhack on a nice autumn day seemed ideal. After descending off of Squaw Peak, I headed down the Indian Monument Trail (easy)...

Does anyone know if there is a continuous trail across the Brodie Mnt. Range? Specifically from Brodie Mnt. Road north to Sheeps Heaven Mnt; north to the top of the former Brodie Mnt. ski area; Then north along the ridge to Waubeeka Country Club in S.Williamstown? Topo shows some trails going...

I have this weird problem that keeps occuring with my Garmin E-Trex Vista. Whenever I download the track from a hike I've taken to one of my mapping programs, I end up getting this line on the map.It extends from where I turned the GPS on to where I ended my last hike. The problem is that I make...

I've heard a rumor that there was some stabilization work going on at the old stone bridges on the abandoned B&A line in Chester and Middlefield. Our Scout troop took a hike into there on Saturday, and didn't see anything being done. Does anyone have any info on possible work being done there...

While taking a little stroll through the lovely Berkshire woods yesterday, I ran across an anomaly with my Garmin E-Trex Vista. Using both National Geographic'sTopo program, and Delorme's Topo 4.0, I mapped out a bushwacking rout. I positioned waypoints on the maps, and drew a track from point...

Im planning on climbing Berlin Mnt. (Mass/NY line) on Sunday. I will start at the pulloff at the top of Rt.2 and head south on the Taconic Crest. Instead of backtracking, I'm thinking about taking a trail that shows up on an older map of mine. It appears to end up at the old Carmelite Novitate...

In Monday's Berkshire Eagle, there was an article in the Health and Science sector entitled,"Atlas celebrates the Adirondacks". I'm not sure if this is a new book, or if it's been out for a while. The author is a gentleman by the name of Jerry Jenkins. It seems to be a trivia of the ADKs...

It was inevitable, the bear proof containers are going to be mandatory next year. It's just a matter of the law makers putting their J.Hancock on it. During my weekend stay at Ore Bed Brook LT, I talked with an EnCon officer and a Wildlife Mngt. officer, who both told me that the bear problem...

Let me first start by stating emphatically: You have got to climb this baby! What a view!! Now that that's out of my system, here's the details. My friends, Mike and Chris Liebla, joined me for one of those,'I gotta do that someday' hikes in the ADK's. The three of us left the Orebed leanto...