Type of Adventure: Snow shoe hike
Place of Adventure: Plymsbury Wildlife Management Area aka Shrewsbury
Length of Adventure, miles: about 3
Length of Adventure, hours: 2
Companions: Colyn and Mom
Weather: Temps in the low 30's, sunny at first but clouding up quickly. The wind came up towards the end and it started to rain right after we got back to the car. About 10" of snow on the ground.
Other Adventurers Encountered: A snowmobiler arrived just as we were leaving. There were tracks from another snow shoer, and some cross country skiiers, and someone had been up fairly recently to cut up a tree that fell across the trail.
Points of Interest: 1. The two old stone foundations along the first part of the trail. There is a very large foundation on the right and a smaller one on the left. It makes me want to read up on the history of Shrewsbury. It's never been highly populated, but these foundations are pretty far out in the woods. 2. This is a non-motorized vehicle trail. I'm so glad mom convinced me to try this trail. I've always avoided it because it is so close to the houses, but it veers away from the houses. Now I can hike Shrewsbury in the winter and not have to worry about snowmobiles. 3. What we actually hiked was in a "newly acquired" parcel called the Besseneyey Parcel. We found a sort of map at the trailhead. We're still not 100% sure where we were on the trail but when we came to the first intersection we went right and at the second intersection we went left. We never reached any other intersections. We think we hiked about 1 mile out the trail, maybe a little more. It took 1 hour to hike out, but only 30 minutes to hike back. And it was fairly steep most of the way. When we turned around to come back, I marked a tree on the side of the trail so that we have a reference next time we go up.
This is the mark I left. It is clearly visible from the trail and about 6 feet up the trunk. There is no meaning to the mark, I just got tired of carving and didn't finish the +.
This is the sort of map. We were hiking the red trail, and we started at the southern point of the trail, right where it leaves TH#20.
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