2020-7-19, Swan Preserve and Tilton Pond, Canton, CT

On 2020-7-19, I visited Swan Preserve and Tilton Pond in Canton, CT.  Swan Preserve is a Canton Land Conservation Trust property, https://www.cantonlandtrust.org/ .  Tilton Pond is on private property.  My route from the preserve to the pond was off-trail, on private property.

The hike was a Hartford Area Hikers hike conceived of by Lori Davison.  Hikers were to focus on fungus.

I made an interactive map which shows my GPS track in pink.  The black, three-digit numbers are the GPS Waypoints I recorded where I took the pictures below.  Here's a link to the interactive map: http://arcg.is/1WHDSG1 .  Below is screenshot of the interactive map.



Waypoint 001.


002.


003.


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006.


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007.


007.


008  Fan Clubmoss, Diphasiastrum digitatum, I think.


008  Fan Clubmoss, Diphasiastrum digitatum, I think.


009.


010.  A hilly section on the new white-blazed Ted Cowles Trail.  Ted Cowles was a long-time active member of Canton Land Conservation Trust.  He died this Spring of COVID-19.


011.


012.  A large yellow birch.


013.  Perhaps a fungus has deformed this mushroom.


014.  I am off-trail here.  What kind of rock is that behind me?

015.


016.  Note that this mushroom has pores, rather than gills, on the underside of its cap.


016.


017.  There was a lot of rock like this which seemed to have nuggets of quartzite.


018.  There was also a lot of scintillant rock like this.


018.  


019.  I bushwhacked to Tilton Pond.  I swam in Tilton Pond around July 1 in 1969.



David Reik

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  1. lalalandJuly 19, 2020 at 7:47 PM

    awesome pictures, as usual! I love the fact that you know you swam in the pond in 1969!

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