Saturday, January 30, 2021, 10:30AM - 3:30PM
201 Windrow Rd · Norfolk, CT,
Connecticut, West of River,
CT
REGISTER HERE BUT YOU MUST ALSO RSVP @ https://www.meetup.com/AMC-CT-Chapter/ Only Meetup will have last minute updates, addtl. info. and phone app gives you best directions to trailhead. IF accepted AMC emails you a "Confirmation" SORRY limited # due to COVID. If you need to cancel don't comment or message me - cancel on Meetup and AMC website at least 48 hours+ in advance so waitlist can attend. Rated Strenuous for advanced hikers 12+ miles fast paced with few stops. You must stay with the group. Required Equipment: H2O/snacks, phone, printed map, headlamp,coat warm enough for overnight temps, dry base layer, hiking poleS, rain gear AND everything on this list: https://hikesafe.com/gear-list/essentials Bring Camera. DOGS okay but you check park regs. Its Winter: Bring microspikes and snow shoes to trailhead will decide if needed just prior to the hike Hike 10-12 miles in the largest tract of land in CT uninterupted by a road. 6000+ acres of forestland abutting 4000 acres of Housatonic SF… in the NW corner of Litchfield County.. The forest supports an abundance of diverse wildlife from resident moose, whitetail deer to moose, black bears, and turkeys, waterfowl, and many birds. The Great Mountain Forest is one of the nation's oldest conservation legacy organizations, and the largest conservation easement held in southern New England. Throughout most of the nineteenth century colliers worked throughout the forest, sending the charcoal they produced to local blast furnaces to smelt iron ore, and most of the forest was repeatedly cut over in this process. This was an intensive use of the forest, carried out with little thought to the future. In 1909, Frederic C. Walcott and Starling W. Childs acquired their first parcels of land. This was the height of Progressive-era conservationism, and the two men had public benefit in mind. GMF was to be their laboratory for conservation and management, and they continued to acquire land. By the 1930s they had several thousand acres under management. More information on Great Mountain Forest: Homepage: http://www.greatmountainforest.org/ History: http://www.greatmountainforest.org/aboutus/history.php Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greatmountainforest/ location/directions for Forest Office at Great Mountain Forest - the summer entrance to GMF (roughly 201 Windrow Rd, Norfolk, CT 06058 - GPS coordinates below are most accurate): https://goo.gl/maps/ZjX2p7SY9VV8A6YT9 Map - http://www.greatmountainforest.org/admin/resources/1335558098-gmftemplate24.pdf
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