David Reik, Photo Blog

  On 2022-2-26 and 2022-2-27, I visited the Buell Forest area in Clinton, CT.  I made an interactive map with location numbers.  Here's a link to the map:  https://arcg.is/1OPW98  .  Here's a static screenshot of the interactive map. 1.  Where we parked on 2022-2-26 for a New Haven Hiking Club - Appalachian Mountain Club hike.  This was at the west end a road called Taylor Ridge, or Taylor Ridge Road. 2.  Where I parked on 2022-2-27, an unpaved parking area that could fit about five cars. 3.  A large stream that apparently has no name.  It's a tributary of the Indian River. 4.  A view of the stream. 5.  Another view of the stream. 6.  I was on a dim trail that someone had sort-of marked with stones. 7.  This was a broad thoroughfare. 8.  There was a little Clinton Land Trust parking area at the north end of Cream Pot Road. 9.  I crossed the stream on a power cut road.  I used two sticks to balance on rocks. 10.  There were lots of these bushes growing in the power cut.  I t

 On 2022-2-10 and 2022-2-11, I visited open space in the northeast corner of Newington, CT.  I made an interactive map with location numbers.  Here's a link to the interactive map:  https://arcg.is/zTbXf  . On 2022-2-10, I parked on Mountain Road near 16, under the CT-175 bridge.  Maybe it would have been better to have parked in a gravel lot at 5 on maybe on the northern section of Mountain Road near the intersection with Knollwood Road.   1.  There is a great view here --- you can see downtown Hartford, and (I think) Mount Tom, but the Balf Quarry operators probably don't want you this near the edge of the quarry. Near 1.  The path to the view was very steep.  People had strung rope along sections. 4.  This view is also on Balf property, but is a long way from the quarry.  You get a great view to the west.  I think that's UConn Medical Center on the horizon to the left, so this must be looking northwest. 4.  This seems to be looking more due west. 15.  I saw many trees wi