Finally posting our East Coast Greenway leg from the end of our August camping trip in Pomfret, CT. This 4.25 mile stretch took place over the course of several days, because not only was it beastly hot, but after over a week of camping and walking, my stamina and the condition of my knee had deteriorated to the point that walking even a mile at a time was a struggle. Some of the photos definitely reflect that. This leg began at the trail parking lot on Brooklyn Rd and finished at the trailhead at the end of Railroad St. I'll point out a few features of our walk along the way, but mostly will let the photos speak for themselves -- this really is some of the loveliest trail we've walked so far.
Above and below, there are many preserves and conservation tracks along this portion of the trail, which was such a refreshing change from some of the more urban/suburban walking we'd done earlier in our trip.
Above and below, we used a half mile blazed trail through the Pomfret Rec Park land to break up a 2.5 mile stretch of trail into something more doable for me. But sometimes the things you do to make things easier only make things harder....
Above, while the trail was well-blazed heading from the Greenway to the Rec Park, we were quite annoyed, below, to discover that there were no blazes in the other direction, and many Trail branches, making finding the trail again more challenging than it should have been. So we were off to a grumpy start to the next portion.
Above, relief at finding the access trail to the parking area at the Pomfret town offices.
If I look exhausted, it's because I was completely spent. (In fact, I had to rest and rehab my knee for nearly a month before I'd be able to get back on the trail again.) It was a fun, exhausting couple of weeks where we walked on the trail nearly every day, doubling our total miles traversed, and started to feel like we're actually getting somewhere! From this point, we only have 9.5 miles of contiguous trail to walk to complete all of the East Coast Greenway in Eastern Connecticut!!
Our totals thus far: 55 miles walked, 108 miles traversed, 2892 miles to go!
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