ridgewalker777
10-16-2004, 22:28
Remember the Ronald Reagan movie where he wakes up in a hospital bed having had his legs decapitated? That was the feeling I got recently walking through the parts of the Connecticut Appalachian Trail that were lopped off in the late 80's. Macedonia Brook and the Cobble Mountain ridge--cut off, with the valley hike over to its present road crossing. The hike up to the eastern ridge from Mohawk Mountain, Cream Hill and other ridges, down to Dean's Ravine, etc. A good 20 miles were lost in the re-routes. The sections lost are largely on state land now. Would it really be so difficult to salvage some of the lost sections? It probably would be a huge logistical problem.