{"id":1553,"date":"2011-11-07T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T04:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2011-11-07T23:03:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T04:03:15","slug":"had-to-find-out-sometime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/had-to-find-out-sometime\/","title":{"rendered":"Had to Find Out Sometime"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago (well before our big snowstorm), I decided to test a claim that I had made some time ago, I believe in a previous blog post (actually, the post is here<\/a>).\u00a0 My claim was that I could walk from my house to the top of nearby Bare Mountain in an hour’s time.<\/p>\n

I set out in the mid-afternoon on a partly sunny day.\u00a0 The hike started with a half-mile walk down the road to the trailhead.<\/p>\n

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The trailhead is in the middle of those trees.\u00a0 Here you can see the entrance, down a driveway where Hadley residents are allowed to park (if they get a permit, I believe):<\/p>\n

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That guardrail looking thing is actually a gate.<\/p>\n

I had hiked in here and up to the Notch last winter, but had kind of haphazardly made my way up.\u00a0 This time I tried to be a little more systematic in my choice of trails.\u00a0 As it turned out, I did not head East enough, but focused on heading South (i.e. straight up) before turning East.\u00a0 I did get where I wanted to go, but ended up having to cut through on some narrow mountain bike trails to get to the proper main trail.<\/p>\n

Just before the trail emerged from the woods, I found these concrete vent things:<\/p>\n

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Or access hatches, or whatever they are.\u00a0 Seeing them, I figured that I was close to the old military reservation.\u00a0 Sure enough, only steps later I came to the fence:<\/p>\n

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I turned left and made my way along the fence to the military road, and then soon came to the Notch area on route 116.\u00a0 There, I was able to head up Bare Mt. on the good old M-M trail<\/a> (now heading mostly West up the side of the mountain).<\/p>\n

The path up to that peak is steep, so it was tiring going up it, but I tried to keep up my momentum.\u00a0 I reached the summit with time to spare, though; the total from house to mountaintop was about 53 minutes.<\/p>\n

Of course the sky had clouded over while I climbed, so there’s no sunlight to speak of in my pictures from the top:<\/p>\n

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That picture above is looking back toward Hadley (I crossed into the town of Amherst on my way up).\u00a0 Here is the view East to Mt Norwattuck:<\/p>\n

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I spent about 10 minutes up there, and then went back the way I came.\u00a0 The sun came out as I was heading down – here is a picture of the Notch visitors’ center\u00a0 when I got back down to it:<\/p>\n

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A lot of people were out recreating that day, apparently, as many of them had to park on the grass.<\/p>\n

I went back around part of the old military base and then back down the main trail, this time following it all the way back to see exactly where I should have turned off to begin with (turns out that I should have taken the first left turn after entering the woods).\u00a0 Just before getting back to the first trail, I passed this little reservoir:<\/p>\n

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I had passed that on the way up, but I was on the other side of it.\u00a0 Soon enough I was back on the road and then home.<\/p>\n

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