Lincoln Twin Pond to Pigeon Hill Folly Ruin - January 24, 2024

 HIKE REPORT

Wednesday, 24 January 2024, Lincoln - Twin Pond to Pigeon Hill Folly Ruin and Back winter hike
Hike Leaders:  Zach Woods & Judy Perrin
5.5 miles (~2.75 hours), 10:00 am start from Lincoln, MA

Hikers (17):  Zach, Judy, Annemarie Altman, Barbara Martin, Betty Salzberg, Greg Stathis, Janet Miller, Jim Whinfield, Julie Dodd, Marie Keutmann, Martin Hemler, Renee Rees, Romaine Randall, Susan Broome, Susan Sabin, Tom Allen, and first-timer Patricia McCaffrey.

A great day for a winter hike, although sometimes the wet snow falling from the trees was easily confused with rain.  No wind and thirty-two degrees.

 

The group enjoyed seeing several historical sites:  Garfield cellar hole, Pigeon Hill Folly, and the former site of a colonial era rope walk (where hemp fibers were worked into lengths of rope).  We hiked up a hogback ridge formed by a glacier and learned that Pigeon Hill was named for all the countless, now extinct, passenger pigeons that used to flock there.  We also learned about several of the Modernist houses viewable from the trail.

 

Nine hikers enjoyed lunch at Revolution Craft Food Hall in Lexington.

 

Photos were taken by Judy and Barbara, at the Pigeon Hill Folly ruin and along the hike.

 

Report by Zach Woods.