tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80453994026735573982024-03-20T06:41:31.687-07:00Walking with Dogs in Greater NewburyportOff leash experiences in Newburyport areaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045399402673557398.post-45393718969493941332019-09-13T19:17:00.002-07:002019-09-14T14:49:19.603-07:00Quill Hill at Rangeley, Maine<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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While vacationing this summer at Rangeley Lake, Maine with our three dogs, Joe and I discovered a great place to take them for an off leash walk. Quill Hill is a few miles past the town of Rangeley on Route 16. Whether you have a dog or not, it is worth the drive to the top. A four mile dirt road takes you straight to the summit where you can park and have lunch at picnic tables with panoramic views of the surrounding mountains and lakes. A handicapped accessible trail descends from the summit picnic area to another overlook with more picnic tables. The trail is less than one mile long with some raspberries bushes that in August were ripe for the picking. There was evidence of moose at the beginning of the trail, both tracks and droppings, a good sign since their population has been in decline. We kept our smaller dogs on leash, not being familiar with the trail and concerned that a small animal could tempt one off the trail where we risked losing them in unfamiliar territory. But thick vegetation would prevent most dogs from wandering off the beaten path.<br />
We heard from other visitors about some dog-friendly trails at the Forestry Museum in Rangeley which we hope to explore during our next visit, but I can't imagine anything else beating the view that Quill Hill offers. It is worth the twelve minute ride to the top and a $5 donation on your way back down.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The parking lot at the summit of Quill Hill</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beginning of mile long handicapped accessible trail from summit</td></tr>
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<i><br /></i><i>From <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g40835-d6953192-Reviews-Quill_Hill-Rangeley_Maine.html">Trip Advisor</a>: Quill Hill is<span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "bitstream vera sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> located off Oddy’s Road on Route 16 in Dallas Plantation between Rangeley and Stratton, Maine and is known for its scenic views. Once you turn on to Oddy’s Road, you will follow a very well maintained dirt road for approximately 12 minutes, or four miles, to the top. At an elevation of 2,848 ft., visitors are rewarded with a breathtaking 360º view of Tim Pond, Rangeley Lakes, Saddleback, Saddleback Lake, Kennebago, Flagstaff and the Kibby Wind Power project. It is the only mountain in Maine with a 360º view accessible by automobile, bike, ATV, and motorcycle, and it includes a 4,000 ft. wheelchair path between the two scenic views. No matter what type of transportation you use, please be respectful of the land so that it doesn’t get closed to the public.</span></i><br />
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Looking for a long walk through the woods right in Newburyport? Pull into the rear of the new CVS parking lot on Storey Ave by Atria Merrimack Place Senior Living and you'll find the entrance for the Woodman Farm Trail. As part of the agreement to develop the property, Tropicstar gave the city this parcel of land with a full conservation restriction allowing passive recreation and a connection to the network of trails in the Common Pasture. Volunteers from Parker River Clean Water Association blazed the Woodman Farm Trail, recently renamed the Randall J. Millen Nature Trail according to the map attached here. From the Storey Ave start to finish at the Cooper North Pasture Trail entrance on Hale Street, expect a forty minute walk.<br />
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My husband and I set out to explore it on Sunday with our dogs, starting out at the Hale Street entrance. With the ticks in hibernation, the cold weather is the best time to enjoy a walk across the hay field to Crow Lane. While the front field has been mowed, the tall grass and brush in the rear field make for a tough crossing. <br />
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We spotted two young deer chasing each other, only the white tufts on their tails visible, bouncing up and down in grass until they got wind of us and took off into the woods. Joe found a remnant of a coyote kill, a gnawed off rabbit leg next to one of the birdhouses.<br />
You can see the landfill as you make your way across the field and step onto the Crow Lane path. Turn right and you'll be at the landfill parking area, another way to access these trails. Or turn left and you will shortly come to an opening in a stone wall that marks the beginning of this newest trail, currently marked in the woods as the Woodman Trail.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713P578Z/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492977036&sr=8-1&keywords=letters+from+apizaco">Letters From Apizaco</a> is a young adult memoir of my experience as a high school exchange student living in Mexico in 1976.<br />
Also visit <a href="http://middletoncitizensacademy.blogspot.com/">From the Outside Looking In: Middleton Prison</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045399402673557398.post-66768004390770529062016-06-05T06:11:00.001-07:002017-05-02T16:56:27.572-07:00York Harbor Inn <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just above York Harbor Beach is the Cliff Walk, visible above the rocks in this photo. Dogs are not allowed on this trail but welcome on the nearby Fisherman's Walk and <a href="http://www.healthymainewalks.com/walks/village-steedman-woods-loop">Steadman Woods Loop Walk</a>. Click here to follow the three and a half mile loop along the harbor and through York Village.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next door to the Harbor Crest Inn is Chapman Cottage, a pub open from 5-9 with fireside dining and Blueberry Martinis made from their local blueberry infused Cold River Vodka.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comfortable seating on the porch. Dogs are not permitted on furniture inside the inn and probably not on the porch either but Carlos thinks rules don't apply to him apparently.</td></tr>
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Additional publications by Kim Kudym:<br />
<a href="http://middletoncitizensacademy.blogspot.com/">From the Outside Looking In: Middleton Prison</a><br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713P578Z/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492977036&sr=8-1&keywords=letters+from+apizaco">Letters From Apizaco</a>, young adult memoir of my experience as a high school exchange student in Mexico as told through letters home and journal entries from 1976.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045399402673557398.post-44149990207545737802016-02-10T10:53:00.001-08:002016-02-10T10:53:06.883-08:00Brake Hill: W.Newbury, Massachusetts<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Thanks to the town of W. Newbury and volunteers from the W. Newbury Open Space Committee and many others there is another series of trails that extend into the Groveland Town Forest. In W. Newbury, there are five different trails, all very well marked. Click here for Trail Map:<br />
<a href="http://www.ectaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/BrakeHill_TrailMap_Oct2011.pdf">Brake Hill Trail Map</a> <br />
Armed with walking stick, whistle and poop bags on our first visit here, today we explored only the Red Trail (Brake Hill Trail) and the yellow-marked South Ridge Trail, both of which are guaranteed to give a good cardio workout. When you get to the top of Brake Hill on the red trail you are at the highest point in W. Newbury, 258'. Just off to the right, you can see one of two water towers that are hiding up in the trees in these woods. Head downhill again to "The Sag" next to a Beaver Pond. You can then ascend the yellow trail up to the border of Groveland where you will now be at the highest point in that town, six feet lower than W. Newbury's. Here the White Pine Loop marked with white markers but tan colored on the map leads to a parking area on Wood Street in Groveland.<br />
Only one other person had broken through the nearly foot deep fresh snow ahead of us this morning. We weren't alone, however. Ruby caught the scent of coyotes and became anxious, constantly running ahead and back again to check on me and Carlos, my Cavalier King Charles who seemed oblivious to any danger. These days it seems wherever we walk now in the woods, Ruby exhibits this same agitated behavior. I hadn't paid much attention until a recent walk at Riverbend Conservation area, also in W. Newbury when my husband found a deer's leg bone right along the trail. I think she had been trying to get us to turn around because she knew! I now carry a walking stick just in case. I've heard too many stories of coyote sightings this year and in one instance of people and dogs even chased by them at March's Hill in Newburyport. And if it's not coyotes she is scenting, it could be fisher cats. She was a nervous wreck when we had one in our yard a couple years ago but she has also feared plastic bags caught in tree limbs. (picture Scooby Doo) With or without coyotes and fishers, Brake Hill is such a gift to have so close to home, undeveloped acres and acres of gorgeous woodlands far from any sound of traffic. Besides Ruby's panting and Carlos shrieking when he got stuck in a pricker bush, I heard only woodpeckers and planes flying overhead. Some mysterious blood drops appeared in my own tracks when we turned back, maybe from an owl or hawk that scooped up a critter since there were no other animal tracks?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The red gate marks the beginning of the red trail. Another trail marked green goes off to the right and circles a water tower supposedly offering a scenic view according to the trail map. Next time!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In 2014, Essex County Greenbelt and the Merrohawke Nature School partnered to raise $225,000 to purchase twenty eight acres of woodlands off 82 Boston Road in Newbury, across from the town's capped landfill. Now officially named the Jennie Lagoulis Reservation at Four Rock and Devil's Den, there are trail markers and boardwalks crossing wetlands leading the way past the limestone quarry (Devil's Den) towards the property boundary on Rt. 1. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Greenbelt will be offering a guided geology walk on Sunday, March 20 for those not as likely to explore a new place on their own. It's a great place if you are looking to run out for a short walk, although as you get closer to Rt. 1 you can hear the sounds of construction and y</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">ou'll also likely hear the train go by. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Devil's Den is not far from this spot....careful!</span><br />
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Lisa Densmore's Best Hikes with Dogs in New Hampshire and Vermont, 2005 edition has not steered us wrong yet. For our hike today, we selected Lake Solitude in southern New Hampshire, approximately 90 miles north of Newburyport. Our next best decision was getting on the road by 7AM to beat the Columbus Day Weekend leaf peepers. When we arrived, there were only a handful of cars parked on Mountain Road at the Andrew Brook trailhead. By the time we got to White Ledge for lunch we were joined by several other people with their dogs with the same idea. No sooner did we finish our lunch, a never-ending train of at least thirty hikers plus several more families with their dogs paraded past us. The views of the nearby mountains and the lake below are fantastic with some great color although not peak yet. We will have to head north even earlier next time to beat the 9am madness.<br />
It takes about an hour and a half to get to the ledge going a leisurely pace. The ascent of 1500' elevation gain is fairly gradual and there are plenty of brook crossings for the dogs to stop for a drink, or the lake at the top. From the lake, it's just another ten or fifteen minutes to a huge whaleback of a rock where the ledge starts. Walk across the rock and find the trail to the overlook down a few paces, best to have dogs on leash in this area as space is confined not to mention the danger of the ledge itself. You can continue on past the ledge to the ski lift and lodge at the summit of Mt. Sunapee adding another hour round trip. You don't need to go any further than White Ledge to enjoy a great day with your dog, however. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dogs and hikers converging on the whaleback towards White Ledge, also a great spot for lunch if no spots are left on the ledge.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some color but not peak foliage yet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carlos was the smallest dog on the mountain today.</td></tr>
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The Welch-Dickey Loop is probably my favorite of all hikes to the summit of a mountain. To get the same panoramic views on open ledges on most other mountains you have to work a lot harder. The Appalachian Mountain Club lists it as a moderate 4.4 mile hike estimated to take three hours, although it took us closer to four hours since we kept to a more leisurely pace, stopped a couple of times at the stream for our three dogs to drink, cool off or fetch a stick (I can fetch better than I can throw) and had our lunch at the top. The elevation gain is 1800 feet and it very steadily ascends with little leveling off anywhere on the trail. Within the first hour you reach the Welch cliffs and even that alone would be worth the trip if time didn't permit or you didn't feel like making the complete loop. We had a great view of snow-capped peaks in the southern half of the Presidentials. There is plenty of wide open space on exposed rock slabs already at that level to enjoy the views and spread out for lunch or a nap in the sun. (Note: Those same slabs can make it pretty dangerous if icy or wet!) I guess the moose like it, too. We found scatalogical evidence of their presence, maybe a day old at most. You won't be alone on a beautiful weekend day as was Saturday, May 2, 2015 with as many different species of dogs as there were shapes and ages of the human companions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy dogs and mothers at the summit of Mt. Dickey ready for lunch. Too bad all I packed were a couple of apples, a half bag of pecans for me and Joe and forgot the treats for our drooling dogs. I had plenty of sunscreen however and my well-charged cell phone that had a signal even up there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There was only one spot on the entire loop where dogs may require a little assistance. Ruby and Lucy follow Linda through the chimney.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe, Hugh and Linda on the rock slabs which must be pretty dicey in wet weather. As we were descending we met two guys on mountain bikes that were about to ride their bikes across. They rode up much of the way, pushed the bikes when they couldn't and planned to ride all the way down, not exactly my idea of a good time...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: start;">Some ice part way down from the summit where we found moose droppings. <span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #3c2f28;">May I add that we were meticulous about cleaning up our dog's poop on this trip as were the vast majority of hikers before us. Having forgot my day pack I had to use Joe's camera bag slung over my shoulder and suffered the occasional whiff from the not so airtight plastic bag inside. That irritation was minor compared to what could have been had the black fly season begun. Not a bug in sight! </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Investigating with Linda the cause of some mysterious scrapes on the ledge. Ruby, Carlos and Lucy lead Hugh down Mt. Dickey. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are quite a few open ledges as this one where I felt a lot better with Carlos and Ruby on leash.</td></tr>
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<li>From I-93, take Exit 28 and head east toward Waterville Valley on NH 49. In 5.6 miles turn left onto Upper Mad River Road. In 0.6 mile turn right onto Morris Road, following signs for the Welch-Dickey Loop Trail. In another 0.6 mile turn right onto gravel road, which leads 50 yards to the parking area for the Welch-Dickey Loop Trail.</li>
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Our base camp for this weekend's expedition was The Carriage House at The Mountain Faire Inn, an old renovated barn with three guest rooms upstairs and a large common area downstairs with a pool table, wood stove, tables and chairs for dining and a large television with comfortable love seats. The inn owners are Linda's sister and husband, Suzi and Nick Preston. They don't usually cater to people with dogs but during the off season will occasionally permit well-behaved dogs like ours. There might even be a discount for anyone whose dog is able to catch the resident groundhog. Inquire at the front desk!<br />
Breakfast is included at the Mountain Faire Inn in Campton, prepared by the current innkeeper, Tiffany. I love that name but for the fact that it reminds me of a somewhat obnoxious bridge player i know that cracks the same joke when he introduces himself to every new pair of opponents, explaining that his stage name is Tiffany but is otherwise known as Dan. It was pretty funny the first time. She makes excellent Apple Waffles, French Toast and Poached Eggs. The dining room overlooks several picnic tables out on the lawn where you can eat outside in the sun if you prefer. <br />
On Sunday we did another hike right off Rt. 49 a few minutes away from the inn, a much shorter and easier one on an old road bed without the views but with plenty of opportunity for wading in the river. <a href="http://www.wvaia.org/Trails/SmartsBrook.html">More info on Smarts Brook Trail</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We enjoyed watching fearless Lucy fetch a stick in the rapids below this bridge</td></tr>
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The Smarts Brook Trail is also a very popular trail for dog owners travelled regularly by many of the locals. We just did the short three mile loop but there are connections to other trails including one to Sandwich Mountain. This was a perfect stroll for all of us to stretch and enjoy more of another gorgeous day before hitting the road home.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carlos threw himself on every old crusty remaining patch of snow from the memorable winter of 2015. </td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045399402673557398.post-86271546202550392472014-12-06T10:43:00.001-08:002015-10-03T11:00:22.312-07:00Rough Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary, Rowley2015 IMPORTANT UPDATE: Signs are now posted prohibiting dogs on the 1.6 miles of trails on the main Rough Meadows Sanctuary as it is owned by the Audubon Society. Leave your dogs home to enjoy this beautiful spot! However, the Greenbelt/Audubon trails on the adjacent property, Sawyer's Island remain open to our canine friends. <a href="http://www.ecga.org/explore_our_properties/view_property/1263-rough_meadows_wildlife_sanctuary">Sawyer's Island </a><br />
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I discovered a great new place to walk the dogs just a few miles south of Newburyport in Rowley just off Rt. 1A . Rough Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary is the result of a land conservation collaborative effort between Mass Audubon and Essex County Greenbelt. I gleaned a few facts from their websites; The main trail is named after the late professor, Alfred D. Chandler who donated 125 of the 222 acres in the sanctuary to Audubon in 2007. Ten houses were proposed for development on another 75 acres but being an ecologically critical area in the Great Marsh the town was able to preserve it with help from the Federal Wetlands Conservation Fund and the Rowley Community Preservation Act funds. Rowley was one of the first communities in Massachusetts to pass the CPA. I briefly served on the Newburyport Open Space Committee when we were entertaining the idea to do the same. Sue Moses of Rowley worked with our committee to help us pave the way successfully one year later. Newburyport voted to adopt the CPA in November of 2002. It is exciting to be able to reap the benefits of the law in my hometown of Rowley, especially, on such a beautiful property representative of what I most love about the town, its expansive, absolutely gorgeous salt marsh. And no green-headed flying residents in December makes it all that much better! <br />
On Rt. 1A heading south from Newburyport just past Pikul Farm in Rowey, turn left at Stackyard Road. There is also a sign for the Minister's Woodlot, a 22-acre parcel that was protected from development by the town of Rowley also with the help of funds from the CPA, Mass Audubon, Essex County Greenbelt and others. Turn onto Stackyard Road and take the left at fork, Patmos Road. In about one mile you'll find a large parking lot where there is a trail map posted on a kiosk. You can't get lost here. Follow the blue markers towards the creek and then yellow markers will lead you back to the parking lot. There are three trails in this section of the sanctuary but they are all connected. You can also drive beyond the parking lot to the end of the road and take another shorter walk to Sawyer's Island. There are several private homes on the road at the end of which you'll find another parking area and signage indicating the entrance to this preserve. Don't miss a trip to the end of Stackyard Road also, but best to do that when hunting is not allowed. Hunting is not permitted in Rough Meadows as it is a wildlife sanctuary.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carlos and Hope finding lots of dead Horsehoe Crabs at Sawyer Island. I also found some channel markers that got tossed out of the river and washed ashore.</td></tr>
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For more information about the trails, visit the Essex County Greenbelt website:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They are not kidding. It was shortly past high tide and there was no crossing this path for at least another hour. We left and drove down to Sawyer Island instead.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dogs were willing to cross but it was well over a foot deep, certainly doable in the summer with the right footwear. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mud Creek at high tide is a substantial waterway, at least very wide at the end of this trail not far from where it joins the Parker River</td></tr>
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In this morning's Daily News, I read about the recent fairy invasion at Veasey Memorial Park sponsored by Groveland Girl Scout Troop 75149. I'd only seen evidence of the existence of fairies in one other place, tiny little houses all along a trail on Orr's Island, Maine. I printed out a map(link above) and took off lickety-split with my eager companions Ruby, Carlos, Hope and Louie hoping to find some of these fascinating examples of architecture and with a little luck, maybe even some of the inhabitants, or at the very least some new trails to explore.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Campfire area on shore of Johnson's Pond. Hundreds of fairies gather here on still moonlit evenings and will often skinny-dip in the pond. They warm themselves by the fire before scrurying off to their woodland homes.</td></tr>
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Veasey Memorial Park is on Washington Street in Groveland. There are 47 acres owned and managed by the Groveland Conservation Commission with buildings available for event rentals and trails along a glacial drumlin of sand and river rock. The western border is Johnson's Pond, an 80 acre fresh-water pond where access is allowed for car-top boats only. Although dogs are required to be leashed, I met a woman in the parking lot who recreates with her dog daily and assured me that is safe to go off leash as long as the dogs are under voice control. I would avoid the Ghost Trail since that cuts across the park driveway. Also, the Carriage Path goes too close to Washington Street. Best to avoid or leash up there. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carlos and Hope hitting the Eagle Trail in search of fairy houses </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Louie finds a fairy house by the boat launch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hope races past another fairy house in pursuit of escaped fairy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artistic design by Groveland fairies. Note the eclectic blend of seaside and woodland nature items.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Native American fairies reportedly lived here. Hydrangeas provide adequate shade and protection from the wind.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Louis discouraged to find yet another fairy house empty of all inhabitants.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hope licking her chops after Carlos flushed out the last fairy in the forest.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruby strikes out at this little fairy bungalow. Where are they all?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruby stalking muskrats on the Muskrat Path having given up on the fairy hunt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruby leads the three amigos back to the parking lot. Fairies emerge from hiding places and dance for joy.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045399402673557398.post-7672619589882970692014-10-10T12:07:00.002-07:002017-05-02T16:59:40.906-07:00Salisbury Beach: Dog Friendly After Labor DayFinding a place to enjoy the ocean in the summertime with our dogs in the Greater Newburyport area is nearly impossible. In Salisbury, leashed dogs are welcomed all summer beyond the jetty along the Merrimack River bordering the dog-friendly campground. After Labor Day, the rest of the beach is fair game until Memorial Day. My husband and I decided to take advantage of off season rates and rent an ocean-front condo. On VRBO there was only one pet-friendly condo available and with temperatures predicted to be in the high 60's and 70's, no rain in sight, we grabbed it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from our rental looking towards Seabrook and Hampton<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">The municipal lots at Salisbury Beach center do not charge for parking in the off season. As posted above, the law states that all dogs shall be leashed. But, we walked north to the Seabrook line almost every day and came across quite a few people also walking their dogs off leash very peacefully. Everyone respected each other with a little common sense, leashing their dogs when approaching joggers or anyone lounging on the beach. </span></td></tr>
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It seemed strange taking a vacation just eight miles away from our home, but it was fun to explore Salisbury. We rarely cross the river from Newburyport and are relatively unfamiliar with most of the town outside of the beach center and Salisbury State Reservation. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe on the second floor of our unit. The Blue Ocean Music Hall Pavillion is visible in the background. We had one dinner inside at the Sea Glass Restaurant, owned by a former classmate of mine, Wayne Capolupo. We also tried his Italian Restaurant, Capri's right across the street from the Sea Glass and enjoyed our meal very much. When they first opened a few years ago, I had heard there would be a dining room that would cater to owners with their dogs. Although there is still a sign over the side entrance welcoming them, when I ran into Wayne a few years ago he told me he wasn't advertising that concept any more. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from Master Bedroom on 2nd floor. The balcony was comfortable for the two of us with our dogs. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ocean is slowly taking away the Blue Ocean Music Hall along with the dunes....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you zoom in you'll see the fin of an Ocean Sunfish. I panicked when I saw it, thinking it was a Great White Shark and called the Salisbury Police to report. If I can figure out how to upload video here, I'll post the 30 second clip of it breaching a couple of times. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sand is more of a problem than the Great Whites.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The seawall at Salisbury State Reservation. It is about a half hour walk from the Salisbury water tower.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Path between Salisbury State Reservation and Atlantic Avenue. The neighborhood is an interesting mix of new construction and some very run-down shacks. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A five minute walk to get the best beach pizza. I finally tried Tripoli's after being a devoted Cristy's fan. Just as good, in fact I'm not sure I could pass a blind test taste. Ice cream and fudge next door at Joe's Arcade for dessert. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe is smoking a cigar beyond the snow fence, annual beach vacation tradition. A lot of the properties have fenced in front yards but the fences have been partially buried by the shifting sands. </td></tr>
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What could be more beautiful than the beach? A Cavalier King Charles on the beach!<br />
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After experiencing the most remote of the Maine islands last summer, Matinicus, this year's adventure was to explore the Isle Au Haut. We thought we'd try remoteness blended with a slight catering to tourists, not just...remoteness. It is only five miles off the coast as opposed to twenty. Fifty percent of the island is national parkland, an outpost of Acadia with plenty of hiking trails. I found a great rental right on the ocean, a somewhat rustic cottage similar to what we stayed in on Matinicus, dogs were welcome and the rental came with a pickup truck, $800 for the week!<br />
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We left the day the day after Hurricane Arthur blew through Newburyport and left in its wake six consecutive, perfect summer days. Not a drop of rain, no wind, no fog, nothing but sun, unheard of in coastal Maine, especially on the islands. What the hurricane didn't take with it were the deer flies, horse flies and mosquitos. Holy moley! According to the locals, the best time to visit the island is in September. I'd venture to guess that the insects are the reason most of the forty plus year round residents make their living out at sea, fishing and hauling lobsters. The island is replete with wetlands, plenty of habitat for the dam things. Those horse flies HURT! I rode on the back of the pickup truck with our dog, Ruby while our little Cavalier King Charles puppy, Carlos rode in the cab with Joe...once. We all crowded into the cab after that. I took our first ride to the park sitting on the spare tire and hanging on with one hand, hanging onto Ruby with the other, alternating with both hands to swat the flies. There's one main road that goes around the island and most of it is unpaved and pitted with pot holes, and only enough room for one car one way. One must be comfortable driving in reverse if you do encounter another car going the opposite direction. Well, we wanted remote!<br />
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Our cottage was as far away from the village as you could possibly get but it was a two minute walk from the best swimming hole on the island, Long Pond. Every day, I swam there with the dogs and I was not alone. Sunday, it was a mob scene. It's only a small sandy beach, at most twenty feet between the water's edge and Main Street. Everyone parks on the road and either spreads their blankets out on the pavement next to their pickup trucks or they set up the their chairs in the back of it. They haul down their kayaks, bring the dogs and swim out to the wooden rafts. The water is clean and warm. I don't think anyone swims much in the ocean as there really is no beach, only rock, but there are some small coves off the trails in Acadia where you can access the Atlantic Ocean. The water is a lot warmer in Long Pond!<br />
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To get to Isle Au Haut, you must board the mailboat in Stonington. We caught the 12:30 shuttle but there's an earlier one and another at 4:30. It takes about 45 minutes, stopping first at a private dock and then the town pier.<br />
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There was plenty of room for over thirty of us plus seven dogs and all of our belongings. We had at least a dozen bags and boxes between us plus beach chairs we never used there but had wished we had had on Matinicus so we packed them. The Campa Bella truck was in the parking lot with keys and a tank full of gas and <a href="http://www.vrbo.com/314358">Campa Bella</a> was maybe fifteen minutes down the road. Next to the town pier there is the one and only superette, the Island Store. On Matinicus, you bring what you want if you want to eat it or you order it from Shaws in Rockland and they fly it to you. There is no superette. <a href="http://www.theislandstore.net/">The Island Store</a> on Isle Au Haut is well-stocked, even had the perfectly ripe avocado I forgot to pack for our Lighthouse breakfast sandwiches. They are open every day in the summer but the hours are drastically reduced the rest of the year.<br />
We were pleasantly surprised with the comfortable accommodations although the cottage was further away from the water than I inferred from pictures on the VRBO website. You can see the ocean but must walk down a rocky embankment on a somewhat overgrown path, cross a boardwalk over a marshy area and then you come out to a beautiful view overlooking open ocean. The kitchen was well-stocked except for a microwave. You have to pump your own water from the hand pump attached to the counter next to the kitchen sink. We drank it without a problem at least not yet obvious to either one of us or our dogs. There is an outhouse at Campa Bella but you have a choice between it and a very comfortable compost toilet with an ocean view from the window. I chose the room with a view having vowed fifteen years ago I'd never use an outhouse again. Instead of flushing, you toss in a cupful of some sort of wood chip mix, it is pretty easy to use. You just avoid at all costs looking into the dark abyss while doing so. Clean off any wood chips you might spill on the toilet seat while remembering to avert the eyes. You will be glad to know I did not take a picture to include here. <br />
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We managed to hike five out of the six days of our stay. Click here for the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/acad/planyourvisit/upload/iahmap.pdf">Trail Map</a>. The trails are designated as easy, moderate or difficult. Since I had limited use of my hands still in recovery from surgery two months earlier, we avoided difficult. But "easy"didn't mean a lot given the condition of some of the less used trails such as the one to Thunder Gulch. Despite thrashing through raspberry bushes and waist high ferns and batting off flies Joe was rewarded with a sighting of a bald eagle over Head Harbor and an osprey nest atop a dead tree. It didn't quite do it for me and there was no thunder in the gulch. Apparently when the high tide comes in it shoots up between the rocks like a geyser, similar to Thunder Hole in Bar Harbor. We planned the hike during high tide but the sea was too calm for much of a display.<br />
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We spent one morning exploring the village. That meant having coffee and an ice cream at Black Dinah's Chocolatiers, <a href="https://www.blackdinahchocolatiers.com/blog/">https://www.blackdinahchocolatiers.com/blog/</a>shopping in the one and only gift store run by the cousin of island author Linda Greenlaw <a href="http://www.maineshoreshopgifts.com/our-story/">http://www.maineshoreshopgifts.com/our-story/</a> and visiting the Lighthouse Inn formerly run by island author Jeff Burke. <br />
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I got talking with the shopkeeper since I had just finished reading her cousin's book, the Lobster Chronicles, which is as much about the townspeople on the island as it is about lobstering. Apparently, Greenlaw did not make too many friends publishing it since she did not change all of the names of the characters. Her newest book is even more controversial since she exposes the abuse of a fifteen year old by her uncle, an island resident. I might have to read that one, too, but I am too busy reading the hilarious books by Crash Barry who wrote about his year living on Matinicus in a fish shack. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tough-Island-Stories-Matinicus-Maine/dp/098374310X">Tough Island: True Stories from Matinicus</a> It's too bad that Greenlaw didn't establish some foundation for the island with a percentage of her royalties, but she's the only one cashing in on the sale of her books after throwing the residents under the bus, according to the shopkeeper.<br />
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The Lighthouse Inn looks like a great place to stay but it is down the longest driveway on the island and not exactly walkable to anything other than the lighthouse. The innkeepers have a taxi service to shuttle their guests to and from the national park trails or to the village. Jeff Burke's book <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1474736.Island_Lighthouse_Inn">Island Lighthouse Inn: A Chronicle</a> is a good read too about the long winters living on the island with his young family and what he went through to restore the lighthouse and get the B and B off the ground. I found my mother's sour cream coffee cake recipe in the book and a few others I may be tempted to try.<br />
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The most used trails are the ones closest to the campground where there are five lean-tos for pitching your tents. Duck Harbor Mountain sounds like the most popular of all the trails but we heard it was not advisable to do with dogs. When hiking in the national parkland, dogs have to be leashed which is a real pain in the neck when you are married to Captain Rules. In areas where the brush was very thick along the trail, we agreed to be shameless scofflaws, but in doing so just barely avoided getting bagged by a park ranger. I happened to hear voices just up ahead while on the Duck Harbor Trail so I leashed up the hounds two seconds before the ranger came around the corner with a group of hikers on a guided tour. Don't miss Eden's Head or the Cliff Trail where dogs should definitely be leashed.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045399402673557398.post-24360531461003266302014-04-12T04:44:00.004-07:002017-05-02T17:09:00.026-07:00Amesbury Town Forest<a href="http://mvpc.org/wp-content/uploads/AmesburyTownForest.pdf">CLICK HERE for MAP</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The green trail crosses the power line trail in the Amesbury Town Forest<br />
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The stars finally aligned themselves so I could check out the Amesbury Town Forest. I brought Carlos, our Cavalier King Charles puppy for his first walk in the woods. He was dying to get off the leash and follow Ruby and Rylie but he is still recovering from getting neutered with a hernia repair last week. We were supposed to keep him quiet for two weeks but that hasn't been working out too well. This was a nice short walk to get him out of the house after his imprisonment wearing a Kong collar for the first week.<br />
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There is a huge parking lot right off of Kimball Road directly across from Acadia Condominiums with a sign you can't miss. One woman was coming out of the woods when we arrived and warned us that the trail she was on, yellow or red was quite wet. We chose the green trail in the opposite direction which was very pretty with a scenic overlook at the power lines. It skirts Kimball Road for a little bit and then crosses the power lines, heads into the woods, goes along a ridge and then descends and loops around behind someone's back yard, passing what might be a vernal pool. It then crosses back below the power lines towards the parking lot. I found it a little confusing here and had to follow the power lines west until I saw the green marker. The entire hike might have taken me twenty minutes had I walked non-stop. There is a link to a map above. The trails are wide and appropriate for mountain biking. The Boy Scouts have done a great job marking the trails with signs that serve as landmarks. It is probably the best idea I've seen yet for marking trails. Surprisingly, I did not find one tick on us considering the amount encountered last week at Cooper North Pasture in Newburyport. No signs of a poison ivy takeover yet either!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rylie, Carlos and Ruby after the green loop needing a water break. It was the first day in 2014 to reach 70 degrees after the longest and coldest winter I can ever remember!</td></tr>
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August, 2014 update and WARNING! Finally went back to try the orange trail and got desperately lost! We were never far from civilization since we could hear lawn mowers and occasionally see backyards but we somehow plodded through a swamp riddled with old rotten boards for crossing and could not make a complete loop. We must have taken a wrong turn since there were no more orange markers anywhere. We backtracked (through the swamp again, ugh) thanks to husband's GPS. Looks like lots of work ahead for volunteers to restore and mark this trail. It is also best avoidable in mosquito season!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">From the Amesbury Trails Facebook Page: </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"While we begin to organize into a town wide volunteer group, take a moment to thank the people who have been already taking care of and promoting our trails locally: The Lake Gardner Improvement Association, our friends at Coastal Trails Co</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">alition, Troop 4 headed by Zach Eaton and Chris Ellen who renovated the Town Forrest and Chris Hyde who did a fall clean up last year with volunteers there, and many other nameless people who volunteer to keep our open spaces looking good. Amesbury Trails has our thanks for sure!"</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><i>Other publications by Kim Kudym</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Apizaco-Kim-Kudym/dp/1521138451/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493581384&sr=8-1&keywords=letters+from+apizaco" style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Letters from Apizaco</a><span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">, a young adult memoir </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", "arial", "helvetica", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">chronicling</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> my experience as a high school exchange student in Mexico.</span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://middletoncitizensacademy.blogspot.com/">From The Outside, Looking In: Middleton Prison</a></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #003500; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Lincoln Woods Trailhead is right on the Kancamagus Highway (Rt. 112) on your left coming from N.Woodstock, just after crossing the East branch of the Pemigewasset River. There is a huge parking area, a ranger station and a visitor's center, as well as bathrooms. The Lincoln Woods Trail is one of several trails </span>that<span style="font-size: small;"> start at the Pemigewasset River suspension foot bridge, only a few steps away from the Ranger Station where you can find postings for weather, trail conditions and historical information.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #003500; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">We had a perfect day for this hike, sunny and 50 degrees and we were far from alone. At times it felt more like a parade than a hike but some people stopped and turned back after a short stroll, others took breaks to sit on the riverbank. </span><span style="color: #003500; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;"> After crossing the suspension bridge, it is flat and wide the entire length following the west side of the East branch of the Pemigewasset River, making it one of the most popular hikes off the Kangamangus Highway year round. There were almost as many dogs as there were people, all on leash or under voice control. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruby was a little nervous on the bridge since there is a bit of a bounce to it</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unlike Ruby, Joe was fearless crossing the bridge, well-equipped for any situation! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of pools for wading in the summer….</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And a clear reminder that winter is coming! It is a .4 ascent to Franconia Falls from the lunch spot pictured below, and a little treacherous without crampons(we had crampons but not as useful back at the inn as they would have been here.) The falls were disappointing unfortunately since the rivers are all running low but a beautiful hike none the less! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great sunny lunch spot near the turnoff to the falls. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Historical information. Workers earned $1 daily in the logging camps, nineteen and twenty hour days, too. </td></tr>
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Base Camp: Glynn House Inn<br />
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There are many great places to lodge all throughout the White Mountains but finding a place that is as accommodating to dogs as is the Glynn House is not always easy. We highly recommend this beautiful Victorian inn in Ashland. Our suite was a private apartment called the Lincoln Apartment, with a full kitchen, private entrance, fully fenced in with a patio and grill. When we arrived, Ruby immediately found the dog treats left in the dog dish and there was even a plush dog bed that looked as comfortable as was our king size bed. I was not afraid to indulge in the gourmet breakfasts, nearly licking my plate clean, since we'd be hopefully working most of it off on the trail. Pam is quite the cook and Glenn was unbelievably helpful with suggestions for hikes and places to go for lunch. We had no plans for Sunday and by the end of breakfast, Glenn had our day planned with both a road map and trail map of our next hike. We really appreciated his warmth and genuine caring for his guests.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruby on a dog bed provided by the innkeepers at Glynn House</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We came back to the apartment after our hike and found a nice surprise, a Christmas tree next to the fireplace!</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #003500; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">kimkudym@comcast.net</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045399402673557398.post-29030480099967802532013-11-14T04:10:00.002-08:002013-11-14T04:21:18.979-08:00Outdoor Safety during Hunting Season from the MSPCA<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #004b89; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.33em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1em 0px 0px;">
Hunting season is here! Many of the places I've written about allow hunting so please read and beware. Report any illegal or improper behavior to the environmental police by calling 1-800-632-8075</h2>
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<a href="http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabambc/downloads/2013%20Massachusett%20Hunting%20Schedule.pdf">Click Here for Massachusetts hunting season 2013</a></h2>
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<a href="http://www.mspca.org/programs/wildlife-resources/conflict-prevention/outdoor-safety.html#hunting_seasons">Click Here for link to MSPCA article </a></h2>
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<strong>Enjoying The Outdoors Safely During Hunting Season</strong></div>
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Hunting seasons span much of the year in Massachusetts and neighboring states, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy the great outdoors.<br />
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<strong>Practice Awareness</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.mspca.org/programs/wildlife-resources/conflict-prevention/outdoor-safety.html#hunting_seasons" style="color: #004b89;">Be aware of the different hunting seasons</a> in your area and know when you are in areas where hunting is allowed. If you are unsure which areas are open to hunting locally, consult with your town clerk or avoid<a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dfg/dfw/maps-destinations/wildlife-management-areas.html" style="color: #004b89;" target="_blank">areas that are suggested to hunters</a>. Watch for posted areas that indicate that hunting is not allowed (<a href="http://www.mspca.org/programs/animal-protection-legislation/government-affairs/current-legislation/wildlife-legislation/hunting-trapping-1.html" style="color: #004b89;">pending legislation could reverse posting requirements</a>), but be aware that hunters may accidentally shoot into those areas from adjacent areas where hunting is legal.<br />
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Do not let your dogs chase deer or other wildlife and be careful around beaver ponds and other areas where trapping may occur. Body-gripping traps are still used with permits in limited circumstances in Massachusetts and can capture dogs.<br />
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Hunting is not allowed on Sundays in Massachusetts <a href="http://www.mspca.org/programs/animal-protection-legislation/government-affairs/current-legislation/wildlife-legislation/hunting-on-sundays-2.html" style="color: #004b89;">although pending legislation could change this</a> but it’s still a good idea to be alert, especially if you’re near the border of a state that does allow hunting on Sundays.</div>
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<strong>Dress Appropriately</strong><br />
To increase your visibility to hunters in the field, wear bright orange clothing when hiking during hunting season and put bright orange collars and vests on your canine companions (or horses if you’re trail riding) to keep them safe, too.<br />
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<strong>Sharing the Outdoors</strong><br />
Even if you disagree with hunting, do not harass hunters if you meet them in the field. It is unsafe and illegal. If you find hunters behaving badly or doing something illegal, you can report them to the environmental police by calling 1-800-632-8075.</div>
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<strong>Common Sense Tips</strong><br />
Keep in mind other common sense tips for safely enjoying the outdoors in the fall and winter, too. Be prepared for changing weather and declining daylight; carry a pack with extra clothing and a flashlight or headlamp. Know the area where you intend to hike, bring a map and compass or GPS, and let someone know where you’re going and when you expect to return.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Thanks to the combined efforts of Newburyport Cub Scout Packs 21 and 451, Boy Scout Troop 21, and volunteers from the Parker River Clean Water Association</span> we now have a great new place to go with our dogs. For a detailed description of the trail, I've referenced a fellow trail enthusiast's blog, Jerry Mullins. Click here:<a href="http://brickandtree.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/trail-series-a-special-treat/">Jerry Mullin's blog entry with good description of this trail</a><br />
Or just take a walk and discover for yourself. Park on the right hand side of Plummer Spring Road before the bridge and walk to the guard rail. (follow Hale Street straight through the intersection with Turkey Hill and you'll be on Plummer Spring.)<br />
Ruby's head in above picture is at the entrance of the trail. It is beautiful, especially now in the fall as the area is primarily deciduous trees. There are wide open water views all along the trail. Have fun!<br />
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Note: Use caution as you approach Rt. 113. There is a leash law in Newburyport but Animal Control is the least of your worries if your dog is not under voice control and runs too far ahead.<b> </b><br />
<b>Also</b>, ticks are still out. I found two on myself and only one on Ruby as opposed to two weeks ago at Mill Pond where Ruby picked up over twenty. Today I sprayed her with Plum Island Soap Company's natural flea and tick spray....big difference!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great use of downed trees and limbs to line the Artichoke River Trail</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great spot to sit or cross over and walk on the W. Newbury side back to Plummer Spring Road</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruby treeing a squirrel on one of the bigger trees along the Newburyport side of the Artichoke</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Which is longer: the Great Wall of China or all the stone walls in New England combined?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruby disguising herself with rotten animal carcass so she can sneak up better on the live ones? White vinegar bath when we get home. Good times.</td></tr>
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I took Ruby for a quick paddle in the Merrimack River at Joppa Flats for the first time ever this morning, something I've always wanted to do. She is honestly not thrilled about kayaking with me ever, but it beats staying home alone by a long shot. When I dig out the life vest, she runs for a place to hide with her tail between her legs. By contrast, if I pick up a leash, she barks and does back flips for joy. Taking advantage of high tide and a perfect September day, we paddled as far up river as the AYC and as far down river as the renovated clam shack on Water Street, not far in either direction but giving us (me) an hour of exercise and some sun. There were no dorsal fin sightings, and I was looking. It was fun to paddle behind all the riverfront homes and check out whatever is visible of their backyards beyond the seawall. I'm a stranger to the boating community so this is a part of Newburyport I rarely see. I think Ruby even enjoyed it in her own way, relaxing on the bow of the kayak and watching seabirds. We had the flats to ourselves, but as we were leaving, another guy was just getting in the water with his kayak. I provided some entertainment for him while I tried to hoist my yak up onto the roof of my car, determined to do it alone. I could see him out of the corner of my eye ready to jump in to save the side of my car from being completing sideswiped when it started to slip, but I did it!<br />
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Update October 3, 2013: Finally a chance to take Daisy out!<br />
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We put in about 9:15AM about an hour after high tide, paddled easily with outgoing tide to Joppa Flats Audobon Sanctuary but it took us probably three times as long to get back, against the tide and a bit of a breeze, 40 minutes round trip. Love it! Met one other woman paddling alone and exchanged a good morning, nothing more.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Margarita bonita</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These homeowners have the best view in Newburyport</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uncle Joe waiting for us at the boat ramp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hi Uncle Joe!!!</td></tr>
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Please watch this music video by Nat Hussey to get a better understanding of life on Matinicus before reading further! Click here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-6XgfpZQjE&list=UUqxErNN4ZweydtQZUN9uX6A">Nat Hussey: Trying to Make a Living in Paradise</a> Quote "You're a broker from Chicago? Well, I'm broker than shit in Paradise!"<br />
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Finding prime
oceanfront land accessible to both humans and dogs during the summer months is
always a challenge for those of us in the Newburyport area, and most places in
Massachusetts it seems. As the
islanders will tell you, Matinicus, Maine’s most seaward of the inhabited
islands is heaven for dogs. In fact, this past winter the canine residents outnumbered
the 25 human residents that live there year round, down from 50 recorded in the 2008 Boston Globe article that I've saved, inspiring this first time visit. </div>
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On Markey Beach Sunday afternoon, I counted 35
people and five dogs. This year, there will only be three students in the one room schoolhouse. Several others kids commute to Rockland for various reasons, one of which is to attend high school.
Lobstering seems to be the main way of life and apparently very profitable most
of the time, but so many of the young are leaving for college, taking up other
professions, and just not interested in maintaining the same lifestyle as their
parents.<br />
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Most of the
rentals, several remaining empty this last week of August post Puffin season, allow dogs and are much more reasonably priced than ocean front rentals
on the mainland, although not all have flush toilets. Joe and I stayed at a
very rustic cabin that had two options: an outhouse (no thanks, still traumatized by outhouse experience on miserable rainy camping weekend somewhere else in Maine many years ago) and something completely new to us called an Incinolet, the name being a combination of its functions, an incinerator and a toilet.<br />
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Many
previous guests shared their Incinolet related stories in the cabin’s ledger
which provided me with great entertainment, and I will spare my own stories
here, but we did have an interesting safety discussion with complete analysis of the directions provided with pictures before either one of us used it too soon after the other. There is
no hospital on the island so treatment for burns would involve being airlifted
back to Rockland, 23 miles away. Apparently, the local airline makes about 180 medical
evacuations to the islands every year, all unrelated to the Incinolet thankfully.<br />
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Plan to stay a
few days and forget your cell phone and credit card. You can occasionally pick up a cell phone
signal on some spots of the island but don’t count on it. There are no
supermarkets, restaurants, bars, gas stations, nothing except for a gift shop
and a very popular bakery located within two residents’ homes. You pack in all
your own food and drinking water, anything and everything you think you are
going to need. You can also fax a
grocery list to the Rockland Shaw’s Supermarket and for $20, the local airline, Penobscot Island Air, will deliver it to the Matinicus International airstrip. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you go by
boat, it’s about an hour with George Tarkiesan’s Robin R and Ann of Mermaid’s
Taxi Service will come pick you, your bags and your dog up at the dock in her
dusty station wagon.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Dogs are welcome in her taxi, on the boats to and from the
island and they even ride free of charge on the planes, no crate needed,
headphones available if necessary. Ruby
rode with us on the boat over and hopped in a four-seater Cessna on the way
back. I think she enjoyed the boat ride a little less than the plane trip for
some reason. Maybe she felt more
enclosed and safer on the plane. Arriving
at low tide on the boat also provided a de-boarding challenge. I had to walk
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There is a
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When we got
to the boat terminal we were in a panic realizing we forgot Ruby’s food at the
last place we were staying. Joe flew to town to find a supermarket, hoping he
wouldn’t miss the boat. When I told the captain what had happened, he told me
that there are so many dogs on the island and that people are more than happy
to share so it really isn’t a matter of life or death if you do forget
something. When we got in the taxi, Joe noticed a coffee tin of kibble knocked over on the backseat floor. We told Ann about our dog food dilemma back at the terminal and she said that no dog goes hungry on Matinicus, someone would have certainly shared theirs with us. </div>
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Some of the house
rentals provide ATVs for transportation but you can easily walk everywhere
since the island is only two miles long and about a mile wide. Some people
bring their mountain bikes over on the boat. The roads are not paved so all the
vehicles on the island are covered in dust. Only the residents, not the town,
maintain some of the roads.<o:p></o:p><br />
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What looks like a grassy path can be someone’s long
driveway out to their private home on one of the coves. We walked a good portion of the island roads
and hiked some long sections of the shoreline.
There are lots of lobster buoys and traps tossed up from storms and
debris from homes that have blown down or burned. One of the nicest hikes was
out to south beach where there is a path up along the bluffs connecting the
road to the beach.<br />
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Although most dogs
are leash free on the island, we kept Ruby on hers while walking the roads for
the protection of the many cats on the island.
As far as mammals, the only other ones we came across besides cats and
dogs were dead; two seals on the rocks and a muskrat near a fresh water swamp.
I heard there is a population of raccoons and some guests report to have seen
rats but we sighted only birds including a couple of bald eagles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although the
islanders have a reputation for being unfriendly, I found them to be
refreshingly nonintrusive. At the one gift shop, I could freely look at
the merchandise and be alone with my thoughts without being stared at or
interrogated. The shop owner, Donna Rogers who has authored a book about the
island quietly worked on her painting while we browsed.
When I shop, I don’t want anyone to ask me if they can help me find
something, or try to find out where I am from, how long am I staying and where,
and offer unsolicited details about items for sale that I happen to pick up and
look at more closely. Maybe I’m just an unfriendly shopper. But I’ll bet most Matinicus folks are no
different than most New Englanders. Although cold on the
surface, when you break through that ice over time, you will find a very warm and genuine friend inside for life. <o:p></o:p></div>
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During our five
-day stay we met Titan, the Great Dane, Ayla, a very friendly Dachshund, a
white Shepherd named Yoda and a black Lab, Jack. Rossie is a Golden Retriever
owned by George and Robin Tarkiesan who run the boat service. We met her at the bakery where she was
visiting while her owners were out on an all day tour of the lighthouses in
Penobscot Bay. We even met the one room
schoolhouse teacher’s dog at the church fair, an old hound/shepherd mix. This year, there
will only be three students in the school. Several others commute to Rockland
for various reasons, one of which is to attend high school. We saw a beautiful Blue Merle Australian Shepherd riding by in a basket on the front of someone’s ATV. <br />
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While hanging out on the pier one day, I
watched a big bald and burly red-skinned lobsterman leave his boat in the
harbor, row in on his dinghy to pick up his wife and a little Terrier which he
hoisted down, again at low tide, and low tide in Maine is LOW. <br />
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His wife just
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the mainland for provisions or if they were going to just ride along for the
afternoon’s lobster harvest, taking advantage of the unusual long streak of
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Call Ann of Mermaid's Taxi for excellent service to your rental. Phone in box on telephone pole!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kids pool money to buy one of Eva Murray's mud pies and sit in cemetery to eat it, according to one gentleman we spoke with at the bakery down the road</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ayla, Dachsound in middle of main road greeting Ruby</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ayla called home from voice inside</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Much art work with lobster buoys throughout island, indoors and out</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Titan, the Great Dane in dust behind Australian Shepherd on ATV</td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN9tHMfDhyw&list=TLQl1TxINtRMA">Nat Hussey's Matinicus Island music video </a> Click on this link for a a real view of Matinicus Island life! I did not get a chance to meet Nat Hussey, but apparently he adds much to the local flavor of the island with his music. On Saturday nights, the residents gather on Steamboat Wharf for some music. We are very sorry we missed this!!!!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Native dogs swim and play together on the beach. Notice cross up on hill for Chris Whitaker, missing off waters, never found</td></tr>
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The owner of the Norris Cottage, Cyndie Katz gave me permission to post the photos below of her art work that is displayed on the walls throughout the cottage. I believe some of them are of her husband, Geoff and daughter Alice from several years ago during their island visits. Be sure to visit their website<br />
<a href="http://www.matinicusisland.com/">http://www.matinicusisland.com</a>for more information on the island or if you would like to rent one of their cottages next to the best beach!</td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Apizaco-Kim-Kudym/dp/1521138451/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493581384&sr=8-1&keywords=letters+from+apizaco">Letters from Apizaco</a> is a self-published memoir of my experience as a high school exchange student in Mexico in 1976 as told through letters home and journal entries.<br />
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Our annual choice of mountains to climb this year with Ruby was Mount Moosilauke, a decision based on recent knowledge that not only could we stay overnight, dogs welcomed, in the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge in Warren, NH but that a hot dinner and bed, and flush toilets, would be waiting for us at the end of the trail. The only food we needed to pack was Ruby's kibble and our lunches for the hike. The experience exceeded our expectations, having stayed at a few AMC huts and not a fan of sleeping in bunk rooms with multiple snorers above, below and all around me. We'll happily go back and stay a couple of nights if we wanted to try more hiking in the area, for the food alone and the sheer fact our dog can be on vacation with us. $80 a day for lodging (would be less if we brought our own sheets instead of renting them) breakfast and dinner for two.<br />
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It's probably best to start this hike by 9AM to leave plenty of time to enjoy the summit and take multiple breaks along the way. We started at 10:30 and made it down by 5:00 in time for the 6:30 dinner. Six and a half hours of sheer hell, I mean fun, with three or four five minute stops and about 30 minutes at the summit. The loop we did starting at the lodge is eight miles long, but in the whites, always calculate about an hour per mile with the rocky terrain. We went up the Gorge Brook Trail to the summit and took the Carriage Road all the way down to the Snapper Trail which rejoins the Gorge Brook Trail and back to the lodge. Don't let the name "Carriage Road Trail" fool you into thinking it is a carriage road. Apparently it once was, but I don't know how that was possible. The last couple of miles downhill were tough, always the worst, never-ending, knees giving out, tempers flaring.... It's a beautiful loop though! On the way up, we had a handful of young whipper snappers pass us, making us feel old. I bit my tongue, tired and sweaty, tempted to respond to one guy's comment "See you at the top!" with "Yeah, well if you were a real man, you'd walk with us and carry my pack! " Another couple hiking with their dog, Fang passed us three times, once on the way up, twice on the way down, with barely a howdy doody. Fang was by far the friendliest of the three. They took a detour after the first time they passed us to climb another summit, the west peak of Moosilauke. I could see the three of them up on top of the ridge, Fang's silouhette along the horizon when I suddenly found new energy to try and hustle the rest of the way down, thinking we could beat them to the lodge and then tell them they missed out on scones and hot coffee by the time they got there. But they managed to not only descend the second peak but pass us again within the hour, leaving my fantasy back around 3300 feet. I don't know why I was so annoyed by them, maybe because they were probably close to our own age and in a lot better shape, or maybe because Joe packed me a crappy tunafish sandwich, a good lunch being one of the things to look forward to besides the view, and I was expecting mesquite chicken having had a slight communication snafu. I got over it and ate it, thinking ahead to dinner at the lodge, but then Fang reappeared. He had been hanging out with his owners at the summit also and came over hoping for a handout when he got a whiff of my foil pouch of tuna once I had ripped it open. We couldn't get him to leave us alone, and if he pounced on either Joe's turkey or my tuna, I was afraid Ruby was going to get protective. She was tired and hungry, too.<br />
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Fang's owners finally got the hint and called him off, Ruby got the rest of my sandwich and seemed to enjoy it a whole lot more than I did, even if dogs supposedly have a lot less taste buds than we do. I might have liked it if I had a few less taste buds. Poor Joe. He told me to do the shopping and pack my own (expletive) lunch next time, can't say I blame him. I've got a list for next time alright. I just thought he knew me better after twenty years to know that tunafish was not my idea of a good lunch, just because I eat it once in awhile. He picked the best ingredients for the trail mix though, no complaint there.<br />
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The only substantial conversation we had with anyone was with a retired High School teacher from New York. From him we learned that a man and a little boy whose path we crossed just as they were reaching the summit and we were starting down had been on the Appalachian Trail for the last six months. The AT cuts right across the summit of Mt. Moosilauke. The boy was only five and instead of sending him to Kindergarten, Dad decided to take him on this experiential learning expedition starting in Georgia, headed all the way to Maine. Their story can be found at <a href="http://www.buddybackpacker.com/">www.buddybackpacker.com</a><br />
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I had called and booked a couple of weeks early and got one of the best rooms available, a private bunk room with two twins side by side and one set of bunk beds, a bathroom right next door. I recommend bringing your own sheets and/or sleeping bags. The mattresses are firm plastic covered cushions and although you can rent sheets, they are not fitted and slide out easily from under the mattress. We got our sheets, made up our beds and then I went straight for the coffee, what I always look forward to most while climbing down a mountain, while concentrating on not breaking a leg. Unfortunately, there was no coffee brewed and the college students that work at the lodge were not on duty and enjoying their own daytime pursuits, reading, playing the piano and surfing the web on the only computer that was connected with the world. The third person I asked about coffee was happy to put a pot on for me even though it was her day off, but I noticed her shooting a look to the one on the computer behind the desk. He had to be very engaged with something on there. I can't blame him, I could not wait to get in the car and head to N. Woodstock so I could check my email either. But man, did that coffee taste good finally, and what a view to enjoy from the porch with my cup. Right next to the dining room, there is a small porch with several rocking chairs and a view of the mountains facing west, such a spot to relax after a long hike, and wait for dinner! We were able to sit there with Ruby, out of the way of everyone.<br />
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Dinner was DELICIOUS. It started with homemade bread. I could have eaten the whole loaf but dutifully shared with tunafish sandwich preparer husband and a lovely mother and daughter from Ohio. The bread was followed by mushroom soup, green leaf lettuce salad with cranberries and zucchini, fish tacos and rice. There was a mild version of pico de gallo without the pico for the tacos and a plate of black beans too. The best, if that wasn't enough, was dessert which was not served however until the Dartmouth student staff members (the ones on duty, not the ones seated above) obliged us to participate in a plate jousting competition. We all agreed we wanted to try that at home come Thanksgiving, it was really fun! Someone from each table has to try to knock the plate off the opponent's cutting board with a wooden spoon while balancing his own at the same time. Neither Joe nor I participated but had Fang's owners been dining with us, I might have opted in. The fifteen year old girl from Ohio won for our table, earning dessert for all which was chocolate bread pudding, hot chocolate sauce drizzled over the top. Absolutely delicious. Every single one of my taste buds screamed in delight. You could hear it back in N.Woodstock probably. <a href="http://thedartmouth.com/2013/05/10/mirror/lodge/">Click here for more history on lodge and traditions</a><br />
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After dinner, you can hang out downstairs in the library or game room. According to the website, dogs are not allowed in the common areas but nobody objected to Ruby staying with us on leash while moving about the lodge. There are many pictures on the wall from the 1940's especially showing great times had by college students of that era in the lodge. The stuffed mountain lion behind the registration desk is of great interest as are all the other mounted heads of moose, deer and mountain goat. Pictured above in the green apron is one of the student staff members, a sweet, polite man from Pakistan that deserves as much recognition as the chef for his attentiveness to the guests. Many other student employees work on trail maintenance and gather in the lodge for their dinners and socializing at night.<br />
Unlike the college students spending their summer up at the remote AMC huts, everyone here has fairly easy access to the nearest town, N. Woodstock but it is still close to a half hour away.The most popular kid was one who had made a stop there and picked up a growler of local brew to share with his table at dinner. Note to self: Next time stop in N.Woodstock and pick up own growler of beer or suggest jousting for that along with dessert. Breakfast the next morning was just as good, scrambled eggs, bacon, oatmeal, freshly baked scones and apple sauce. There were only four of us at breakfast which is served at 7:30. I'm assuming the student employees were either still asleep or already off to work. They were up for quite awhile having a grand time laughing, probably finishing off that growler. Felt only slight nostalgia for my own college dorm days, most happy to be tucked away in Room 1 with my husband and Ruby, resting our aching bodies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was thinking about a cup of coffee, I don't know what Ruby was thinking about</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruby shortly before opening to summit, still carrying her own pack with her water supply</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interesting grasses growing above 4000 feet, fragile alpine zone. Best to keep dogs leashed above tree line so that they do not wander and disturb any of this habitat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back to the lodge for dinner....last stream crossing!</td></tr>
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Thank you, Dartmouth College students of the past, present and future for keeping this beautiful log cabin intact and maintaining the spirit of outdoor enthusiasts of the past to be enjoyed by those of us today. Especially thank you for allowing us in with our dog and making all three of us welcome Monday night!<br />
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I thought I had discovered a new trail this week until I came out to South Street and realized I'd not only been on the same trail before but I had even blogged about it. If I am slowly losing my mind, hopefully my niece and nephews will remember me from this blog and know that I once had cohesive thoughts and could put sentences together. What threw me off was coming in from the opposite direction. I had been walking on the water department's road along the edge of Indian Hill Reservoir and thought I'd explore an unmarked trail off into the woods. After about a hundred yards there's an Essex County Greenbelt property sign at a stone wall and a very well marked trail. I thought I recognized the cool cedar growing out of a boulder before...sure enough...it was the South Street Woodlots, connected to the trails at the reservoir via a small tract of private land. There are no No Trespassing signs so hopefully it is acceptable practice to cut through. It adds a pleasant leg to what is one of my favorite walks to enjoy with my dogs, and the town even plows it in the winter!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carlos, Ruby and Willy are grateful for Greenbelt's work to preserve these woods.</td></tr>
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Thanks to Essex County Greenbelt and the Student Conservation Association of Massachusetts there is another new trail to enjoy with our dogs in West Newbury. A team of six members of the SCA spent the weekend constructing three boardwalks and clearing a mile long trail through a very pretty thirty acre parcel. I only heard about it from today's Daily News and had the time and a couple interested companions to go exploring this morning. <a href="http://newburyportnews.cnhi.newsmemory.com/?token=30bfd73102159f998a9f606959da1328_52000afe_101">Click Here for Newburyport Daily News article</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">George prefers sloshing in the mud on while Ruby takes the high road on one of three boardwalks constructed by the SCA this weekend. </td></tr>
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Parking is on South Street just near the intersection with Moulton Street. If you take the Scotland Road exit off Rt. 95 and head towards Byfield, it will be on your right, just before you get to Moulton Street. The first boardwalk is visible from the road. Leash dogs before exiting your car and until you are safely down the beginning of this trail. We didn't see any deer, pileated woodpeckers or wild turkeys but that doesn't mean they didn't see us. Lots of interesting boulders, stone walls and huge oaks and pines to enjoy here!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgeous old Cedar on top of a hill, George is rather handsome as well!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thank you, Students of Conservation Association! Nice work on the trail!!!!</td></tr>
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Website for the Students of Conservation Association of Massachusetts: http://www.thesca.org/mass<br />
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kimkudym@comcast.netUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045399402673557398.post-26908219872731948302013-06-14T11:15:00.000-07:002015-06-15T19:41:35.411-07:00Thurlow Field, Bachelor Street in West Newbury<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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If you are short on time and just looking for a quick drive-by swim for your dog on a hot day, this pond is perfect. It's right off the road, at the intersection of Bachelor, Moulton and Cherry Hill Streets in West Newbury. There is parking to left of this sign and the pond is a few paces behind it. We borrowed a couple of sticks from a beaver dam and enjoyed a rollicking game of fetch. The grass is high and the path along the pond is very wet especially after all the rain we've had, but the water is clean with a good flow across the dam. There's a beaver lodge at the opposite end of the pond. Click here for more info and directions: <a href="http://www.ecga.org/explore_and_engage/view_property/1331-thurlow_field">link to Thurlow Field Greenbelt Property</a> Thank you, Essex County Greenbelt for these wonderful spots to enjoy with our dogs!<br />
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Coffin's Island is 23.5 acre property on Scotland Road acquired from the Herrick Family in 2005 by combined efforts of the Newburyport Open Space Committee, Parker River Clean Water Association, Essex County Greenbelt and Trust for Public Land. It is now managed jointly by the Conservation Commission of Newburyport and Newbury. It was named as such because of its upland topography within the larger Wet Meadows area of the Common Pasture. Approximately eight acres are wetlands including two certified vernal pools and the parcel is identified by the Massachusetts Biomap Program as a High Priority/Core Habitat. It was once pasture land for the Coffins, one of Newbury's first families. <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-left;"> </span><br />
I walked the property once in 2005 and hardly recognized it this morning, eight years later because it has filled in with so much more vegetation. It had most recently been used for timber harvesting and before that excavated for fill then used for road building in the area. The land stewards have marked a .8 mile loop trail which I mapped and recorded with a GPS on my walk with my dogs and uploaded with a couple of photos to Everytrails.com. Just click here:<a href="http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2173935%22%3ECoffin">Coffin's Island map and photos</a><br />
The trail is extremely well marked but it is overdue for some maintenance with clippers in many areas. Just wear long pants and adequate footwear. There is a huge patch of blueberry bushes and I heard birdcalls I didn't recognize, but that's not saying much as I'm lucky if I can identity four or five species in our yard. My dogs were certainly excited about the new smells and sounds here, including some frogs in the vernal pool near the cart path at the trail entrance. A board walk traverses some of the wetter portions of the trail. This is a particularly beautiful walk in autumn foliage. You can leave your vehicle in a small parking area across the street from the gate along Scotland Road. STAY LEASHED until you are safely off the road which is always extremely busy with a 45 mph speed limit.<br />
While researching information on this property, I found it interesting to examine how many different parties contributed to its purchase. Quoted from <a href="http://thecommonpasture.org/Coffin%27s%20Island/CI%20index.htm">Coffin's Island Website</a> <i><b>"TheThe Trust for Public Land and Essex County Greenbelt Association assisted with this acquisition which involved state,local,and private funds. Sourcesof funds included $351,000 from the Massachusetts Division of Conservation Services Self-Help Grant program; $130,125 from Newburyport Community</b></i></div>
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<i><b>Preservation Act open space funds; $10,000 from Essex County Greenbelt Association; $10,000 from</b></i><i><b>Field’s Pond Foundation; $3,000 from the Brookline Bird Club; $150 was from the Essex CountyOrnithological Club, and $152,025 in private donations, mostly from Newbury residents. The property was initially purchased December 19, 2005,by the Trust for Public Land from William Herrick III and Susan Herrick; the two communities then acquired the property the same day</b></i></div>
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<i><b>from the Trust for Public Land.Newburyport Senior Project Manager Geordie Vining coordinated details of the joint acquisition and the joint grants administration on behalf of both communities.</b></i></div>
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<i><b>Funds for required wetlands restoration work and roadwork at the entry were provided by the Parker RiverClean Water Association. Funds for a gate and signage—needed in the near term to secure the property and meet state grant requirements--were provided by Newburyport Community Preservation Act open space funds."</b></i><br />
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<o:p> Great news from Steve Greason, current chair of the West Newbury Open Space Committee. They have just finished developing new trails along the Upper Artichoke Reservoir off Middle Street. Maps and markers have not yet been posted but a thirty minute loop trail is very easy to find even without. You can park at the lot next to the Insight Meditation Driveway. If you have not been up the hill to <a href="http://www.imcnewburyport.com/about">Insight Meditation Center Newburyport</a> </o:p>it is worth a visit to pick up a brochure and schedule. I've only attended one session to date, but it is a beautiful building and setting overlooking the water. The meditation practice is based on ancient Buddhist Tradition and they offer a variety of daily sittings, classes and workshops.<br />
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Exiting the parking area walk up the driveway towards the center where you'll find the town of West Newbury's 50' wide right-of- way for access to the Withers Conservation Area. Stay on the obvious trail which loops through the woods and circles back along the shore of the reservoir. Best to keep your dog leashed while passing the meditation center unless under excellent voice control. Word is out about the recent trail work. I met a neighbor's dad who was exploring yesterday while I was there and then today met another member of the West Newbury Open Space Committee, Jennifer Germain, also on an exploratory expedition with her dog. I found someone else's dog's pink collar attached to a tree trunk. While calling a phone number on one of the tags to track down the owner, my dog companion, Daisy was off in the brush flushing out a chipmunk and managed to wriggle out of her harness which of course was nowhere to be found. No good deed goes unpunished as they say. Maybe I'll get lucky and somebody will find it and attach it to a tree also. </div>
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There is some nice thick moss to sit on at several spots along the shore. Also, the water level is up several inches since December, now covering a rocky outcropping that then served as a toilet for Mute Swans. I've since been educated about the damage they do to our native ecosystem, outcompeting native waterfowl for habitat and food. Apparently, not only does each swan eat about eight pounds of vegetation per day, but they will also kill other waterfowl by plucking their feathers out, or injuring them otherwise, leaving them for dead. Wolves in sheep's clothing, I guess! <a href="http://www.dnr.state.md.us/dnrnews/infocus/muteswanfacts.html">mute swan facts</a> Although the trail is as wide as three or four feet, ticks are abundant here as well as everywhere and there is some poison ivy so dress accordingly. If your human companions are uninterested or unable to join you in the woods, this is a great place to go and have them sit and wait at the bridge while you get your dog out for a bit. Remember, this is our drinking supply so please scoop the poop.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Get on Route 95 South. Take exit 57 (Rte.113). Turn right at end of ramp, go 1.5 miles. Take a left on Garden Street, go 0.6 miles. Turn Left at Middle Street, go 0.3 miles. Turn Right (10 yards before bridge), and park in the lot near the West Newbury Conservation sign. Walk up the hill to the trail entrance on the left. It is before you reach the parking on the hill for the meditation center.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Get on Route 95 North. Take exit 56. Turn left at end of ramp, go 100 yards. Turn right onto Turkey Hill Road, go 2.0 miles (when the road turns sharply left, keep going straight and drive along the reservoir). You will come to an intersection of four roads; you will be the only one at the intersection that does not have a stop sign. At this intersection, turn left onto Plummer Spring Rd. Go 0.2 miles, cross a small overpass that has guardrail on both sides of the road, then turn left into the first driveway at 443 Middle Street. Park near the West Newbury Conservation signpost. Walk up the hill towards the Insight Meditation Center and turn left off the driveway onto the trail into the woods.</span></span></div>
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Get on High St. driving toward Rt. 95. Immediately after the high school, turn Left onto Toppans Rd. At the set of lights, go straight; you are now on Hale St. At the end of Hale there is a stop sign. In front of you the road will fork in a Y. Stay to the Right side of the Y (it’s at about 1 o’clock). It is marked Plummer Spring Rd. You will soon see the Artichoke reservoir on your left, then you will drive over a little overpass with guardrail on both sides of the road. Park in the lot near the West Newbury Conservation signpost at the first driveway on the left after this overpass. You'll see the #4433 and walk up the driveway towards the Insight Meditation Center. The trail is just to the left as you approach the top of the driveway.</div>
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Dogs are not allowed at Lake Gardner town beach in Amesbury during the summer season. However, it is a great spot to begin a hike towards Battis Farm with them during the rest of the year as I found out on a recent outing. I was planning on going to Battis Farm today but rather than drive all the way over from my lab friend Drake's house in downtown Amesbury, I thought I'd attempt to park at the town beach parking lot. The Stagecoach Trail follows the the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unfortunately, not everyone thinks this sign applies to them such as one guy I met today who was with a Greyhound named Fenway. People like that don't seem to care and attempts to correct them or humiliate them are usually ineffective. Next time I might take a picture and send it to someone with the authority to hit him where it does hurt, a hefty fine maybe?</td></tr>
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You can also do a side excursion up to the top of the hill, formerly the Amesbury Ski Area According to the city of Amesbury's website, " <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The</span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Powow Conservation Area is a wonderful green space between Lake Gardner Beach and Battis Farm on the New Hampshire border. It includes Po (Powow) Hill, the highest point in Essex County, from the summit of which one can see into Maine, the islands off the NH seacoast, and Ipswich to the south." See a link to a map of the whole area above. </span>A couple of women I met on the trail said that they had just been up there and saw a bunch of people playing ball with their dogs. I'm assuming it was some residents from the new condos that sit just below the summit. There is a wide open area of mowed grass with views of the valley below. Unfortunately you can not see the lake because of the tree cover but the valley view is worth the hike up. There’s a nice bench to sit on, too.<br />
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<u><b>2018 update:</b></u> This is still one of the most beautiful places to walk dogs in Greater Newburyport, assuming you appreciate the beauty of New England salt marsh. I usually avoid it during tick season but this year has not been bad. I haven't seen or heard anyone report a single tick in several months. Ruby is now enjoying some marshy spot on the other side of Rainbow Bridge but today, our newest dogs, Frida, a Cavaller King Charles mix and Kaitlyn, a rough-coated Collie got their first tour with Carlos leading the way. They donned their coyote vests given reports of much more frequent sightings. Here's a link to Youtube video clip to guide you from the parking lot to the river and trail that runs along it.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVGQNdnsJbk">video intro to Great Meadow Farm</a> and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfRDhhpensQ">river trail</a>.<br />
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I ran into the owners of the Alpaca Farm across the way who walk their 11 year old lab, Pilsner there every day. They spotted two bald eagles on the river and a couple of river otters on recent visits. Their son, Russell Sanderson was one of my students at Triton Middle School, lucky lad, ha ha!</div>
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This place was well worth the wait. I only heard about it yesterday from a couple that live nearby and take their Redbone Coonhound there for a daily walk. When they mentioned that Cooper also swims in the Parker River I couldn't print out a map fast enough and get over there to check it out. What a great surprise! I've driven by the sign on my way to my former place of employment so many times, assuming it was a private farm, never guessing it would be such a great place to go with Ruby. Not only that, from the end of the trail where it meets the Parker River, you can see the backside of Triton Regional Middle and High School sitting right out in the middle of the salt marsh. I texted one of my colleagues who is still on the inside and tried to get her to look out the window to see if she could see me, rubbing it in a bit, that I was free from the confines of those concrete walls on such a nice day as today. From the website http://www.stonestructures.org/html/great-meadow-site.html : <span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">The diversity of cairn designs indicates this was a sacred Native American ceremonial site.</span><br />
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To get to the Great Meadow Farm from Rt. 1 in Newburyport, at the intersection of Newbury Animal Hospital on Hanover Street and Route 1, coming from the hospital go straight through the lights. This is Middle Road which you will follow for about 2 miles until it forks with Orchard Street to the right. Bear right onto Orchard Street and follow another couple of miles passing the Martin Burns Wildlife Management Area on your right, Newbury Perennial Gardens on your left and keep an eye out for a large green and white sign on the left marking the driveway for Great Meadow Farm, directly across from the Bernier residence. You might notice a llama farm on your right not too far from the entrance. Pull right into the driveway and park in the small lot.<br />
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There's a sign on a white metal gate posting the entrance to the conservation land and a path just to the right. It opens up immediately to a....great meadow...no better word for it...and you can follow a well worn path right up and over the hill down to the other side where the Parker River snakes around the entire property. Ruby and I found two different places to enter the river for a swim, spooking a couple of Great Blue Herons in the process. Even though it was dead low tide, she was able to get in easily without getting stuck in the mud. The current doesn't appear to be as fast as it is in other parts of the Parker River and she took a leisurely swim. I'm thinking I might be able to get in the water too if it's warm enough but I'd only attempt it when the tide is much higher. And this would not be the place to go during Greenhead season. But for a short walk and a swim with unbelievable 360 degree views of the salt marsh, it would be hard to beat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not enough water to swim in this part of the river, at least at low tide. Much better around the other side of the property</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new walkway under Rt. 1 next to Striper's. Beautiful work! Sure beats trying to cross Rt. 1 to get to the trailhead. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like the natural feel to this trail. No modern art, only gorgeous views of the marsh!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My girl, Ruby</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One half mile from the trail entrance at high tide today</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bridge Road (Rt. 1) is beyond the marsh here. At low tide, beware of the culvert. A friend of mine's dog was swimming here and got sucked into the pipe and shot out the other side! She's been afraid of the water since!</td></tr>
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NOTE: On nice days, this is a very busy trail with joggers and bicyclists. Dogs should be on leash at all times. We had the trail mostly to ourselves on a March weekday afternoon and I did let Ruby walk next to me without a leash for a training exercise. There were a handful of other people walking, including a couple with their two dogs off leash, also very well behaved and controlled. There are dogipots with bags for dog waste. I hope the humans don't give our dogs a bad reputation here. Please follow the rules!<br />
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