Dogtown 08

[urbpan]

This past Sunday, Alex and Jim and Charlie and I went to Dogtown.  Alexis and Maggie stayed home because of Maggie's hurt leg.  Dogtown is a former colonial village that was abandoned around the time of the Revolutionary war.  It's a great place to hike, and a favorite place for us to take our dogs because we can take them off leash.  Unfortunately, the secret is out--this sign is new, and we saw many more people on this visit than any other.  Hopefully it will still be a favorite hiking place for us as long as we stay in New England.


First weekend of November and stil there are a lot of leaves left on the trees.




Numerous old stone fences cross through the forest.


I was most taken with the American beech leaves.


I climbed a rock but no one else wanted to come up there.


I found this cranberry sesame brownie on a lichen covered rock.  It tasted like raccoon scat, though.


Charlie was happy to find a stream to drink from.


Tannins from the leaves stained it the color of tea.


We found an old dam which was like a raised paved path in the forest.


Charlie sees something in the woods!


A decomposing ATV is one of the more contemporary ruins at Dogtown.


After a while we got really really lost.  I didn't take too many pictures after that, since we were trying to find a way back.


Eventually, with help from other hikers, we found our way back to the main path!



 

Comments

[grace-batmonkey.livejournal.com]

That looks so amazingly peaceful - it's hard to remember there was a period of worry in there after you take in all the pictures together.

[weofodthignen]

Sorry you got lost, but that's awesomely beautiful.

M