I slept late after a night that thankfully didn't include any witching-hour post-marathon charleyhorses, enjoyed my coffee and late-morning Fareed Zakaria political analysis on TV, and wrote a short article on the couch with the cat at my side. Then I joined Jen outside for some watering of the garden and lawn, and realized just how hot and humid it still was out. After abandoning us for a bit around Labor Day, summer came back to play the past few days. We decided to head up into the hills for some chill beach time at Pelham Lake in Rowe, followed by some easy and very slow walking along the lower trails of the Pelham Hills network. The weather was absolutely gorgeous and we capped it all off with an especially fine evening of dinner and drinks at the West End Pub in Shelburne Falls. THIS is how late summer in New England should always feel.
The trails at this site are featured in site #7 of my guidebook Trail Running Western Massachusetts
sylvan swamp off to the side of a very cool esker on the Meadow Trail
beach girl
me in my element
2 miles of super-scenic easy walking
Beach Trail
Beach Trail bridge; this trail network is really something
L: jct of the Babbling Brook Trail and Meadow Trail, up on an esker between two ferny forested swamps
R: testing the filter.
Babbling Brook Trail
Babbling Brook Trail
botany girl
bogwalks
a particularly good night at the West End Pub
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