Sauntering

Monday, August 5, 2013:

Sunset Saunter at 5:30.  It was excellent.  We got lost. A glimpse of Goose Pond, over to Pine Hill (up the steep paved road to the reservoir) back into the woods, and instead of heading towards the Thoreau Institute (a 5 minute walk), we wandered in the direction of Flint's Pond on Pine Hill Trail.   We crossed Sandy Pond Road and tried to find a path by Sandy/Flint's but it seemed abandoned or "ruined" in many ways by a woman who had been walking her dog there, and tried to rescue it from broken ice and died herself.  Her parents sued and now the "No Trespassing" signs are less intimidating than the actual amount of bushwacking required.

We wandered back into the woods and back out, onto Granville Road, walked by Gropius House (both), down Baker Bridge Road, by the CSA farm fields, crossed 126/Concord Rd and back onto Walden Forest Territory.  We walked past some numbered trees (?) and a bog to the railroad tracks, near the beaver pond.  We crossed the tracks to get to the other side of the pipe outlet (Jean fell), back over, we were walking back, tired. Saw that some trees had been taken out by humans, removed completely was the one who had been leaning on the crook of another tree.  Beaver's Madness.  We then saw two of them, swimming separately, in separate directions.   Saw Cotton Weed, which felt like a rabbit's foot, complete with fake bunny bones (hopefully, I had just gotten cheap rabbit's feet in my life).  We walked 4.6 miles, avg 2.3 mph.