HIKE REPORT
Wednesday, 16 February 2022, A winter hike from Great Brook Farm Ski Touring Center
Hike Leader: Janet Miller
~5 miles, 10:00 am start from Carlisle, MA
Hikers (12): Janet, Ann Northup, Betsy Harper, Clyde Kessel, Don Mannes, Gerry Sheetoo, Hugh Folsom, Kaz Zelny, Patrick Ward, Rochelle Holman, Susan Sabin, and first-timer Leslie Talmadge.
XC Skiers (2): Bill Widnall and Julie Dodd.
The morning started out sunny, but cold, as fourteen WWs gathered for a morning adventure. Julie and Bill decided that they would rather ski, even though the snow cover was thin. The rest of us set off to hike the Great Brook Farm trails on the other side of Lowell Road, following the Acorn trails to Curve Street.
Clyde, who lives on Curve Street, helped guide us on the next phase of the hike, as we crossed over Curve Street to Mill Pond Lane. We walked down the lane for a short distance to find the Otter Slide Trail which follows a pretty brook to the Cranberry Fields. Once we got there, everyone was eager for more miles and we hiked all the way around the cranberry bog before retracing our steps back along the brook. After crossing Curve Street again, we took a different trail back to our starting place.
By the end of the hike, the snow was balling up under our microspikes, thanks to the warming temperatures. Back in the parking lot, we compared distances recorded on our phones and estimated that we had walked somewhere between 4.5 and 5 miles. We also saw Julie in the parking lot - she reported that she and Bill had enjoyed their skiing and that they had been on almost all of the xc ski trails.
Report by Janet Miller.
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