Progress

 

Construction of the new walkbridge at the Lower Pond is moving along. That looks sturdy enough to support yo' momma!

Visit #1545, Sunday 3 August 25, 6:05-10:00AM, 5.9 miles, 3.1 lbs. of litter. Temps in the 60s, sunny and dry.

I got an early start to guarantee parking, since the Puerto Rican Festival was being held today and parking would be at a premium.

As I mentioned last week, I was going to address some graffiti I found at West Rock then. I followed the road around Merimere Reservoir and up to the peaks.

At the north end of the reservoir, I had a five minute stare down with a deer at close range. He eventually gave up on me and returned to his salad munching.

I found some new graffiti at the north end of the reservoir, but since I was packing the wrong color for this, it will have to wait until next week to get my attention.

Reaching the split to East/West Peak, I found someone left a bag of trash. I took it away.

Reaching West Peak, I set down to work, but first the artist must don his smock.

I still could not decipher who was being memorialized on these two rocks. Best I could do was one rock was for "Patrick". "Bri" could be Brian, Brianna... who knows? The dates weren't much of a clue either.

I doffed the smock and went back to hiking. I just wanted to use "doff" in a sentence!

Crossing the walkbridge over I-691, I found yet more new graffiti, but this I could handle without paint.

It took a few rounds of cleaner and elbow grease but in the end I was satisfied.

Next week will be a hike of a different color and more smock donning and doffing.