2021-1-13, Paper Mill Trail, Madison, CT

 On 2021-1-13, I explored the Madison Land Conservation Trust's Papermill Trail.  I made an interactive map on which I put location numbers that I will reference in this post.  Here's a link to the interactive map: https://arcg.is/0ji9WT .

Here is a static screenshot of northern section of the interactive map.


 

Here's a static screenshot of the southern section of the interactive map.


  

1.  Near where I parked in a pull-off on Fawn Brook Circle, there were the ruins of a paper mill and two breached dams.  This is the breached stone dam



1.  This is the breached concrete dam.


2.  The blue-blazed trail ran along the Hammonasset River.


3.  There was a sharp bend in the river.


3.  On the banks of the Hammonasset at the bend.



4.  A blue-blazed spur trail traveled between houses to Wickford Place.


5.  Is there an international "Kindness Rocks" movement?  I thought Kindness Rocks were painted rocks that 11-year-old girls put out along trails, often in crevices in trees, but, on the New Haven Hiking Club hike I was on on 2021-1-10, a woman who seemed to be about my age put out a Kindness Rock, I think.


5.  A birdcage full of Kindness Rocks.

6.  A blue-blazed spur trail led past the Eversource Green Hill Substation to Green Hill Road.  I think substations lower the voltage of power from high-voltage transmission lines and direct the power at a lower voltage into neighborhoods.


7.  I thought this burl looked a little like a beaver climbing a tree.


8.  I thought this was a black oak tree.


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9.  Evidence of recent beaver activity.


10.  The Hammonasset River.














David Reik

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