Tuesday, September 13, 2005
This weekend was so nice. I went out hiking in londonderry, vt at Lowell state park. Now I found this trail using http://www.vtstateparks.com. I took the address listed for the park, then using google, found directions to the park.
Me and my friend headed out in the early afternoon of Saturday. It is about an hour away, so we chatted it up, girl talk of course, on the way out there. I found the road to turn on preaty easily, and I wasn’t the least bit surprised when it turned to a dirt road. We kept going deeper into the woods, on this dirt road, hoping my little sporty car will survive the rocks, my friend asking “do you have a vermont map at all in your car?”
Eventually we found the trail, but unlike the print out I had from the site, there wasn’t a parking area. My friend just told me to park and we’ll start hiking, but I refused to believe that this was the state park, no true sign, only marking the direction of a trial, and no parking area. We kept driving and ended up on the same road we started on … so I took a right and ended up in a “town”.
To get directions we stopped at a mobil. I walked in, waited in line, and asked the lady where the state park was. She looked at me like I had two heads. “what state park, there isn’t a state park around here”. I almost died right there. What the hell was going on.
She sent us to the gas station next door, the boy working there was an outdoorsy type she said, so he probably knew where we were trying to go. We got some luck, he told us to go back, and head up a road that we later learned we passed. The directions from google were correct, but the state park website had the completely wrong address. We parked in the parking area and we were surprised to find out that the website was wrong again. It said that there wasn’t any facilities, but there was an porta potty.
We started off on the hike, i gave my friend my digital camera, I took my Minolta with black and white film. We spotted plenty of mushrooms (pics were taken of course), frogs, turtles, ducks, trees, dragon flys, blue dots marking the trail (which saved our asses a couple times. It’s a little scary standing in the woods looking around having no idea where to go… so we were all shouting out “blue dot” hahah) and a revolutionary war cemetery. 3.5 miles later, we hopped in the car and drove back home. Taking the scenic route back, I picked up a cute little pumpkin and some corn that was so very good, and some nice Vermont scenery.
We’ll see what happens next weekend. But at least now I have a Vermont map in my car.
the pics are listed under my fourth year at rit -->
