Cockaponset Trail
North Pattaconk Trail
South Pattaconk Trail
Approx: 7.6 Mile Loop
Old Country Road, Haddam, CT – Rte 148, Chester, CT
This was a really nice hike that had a little of everything. Nice mountain laurel, pretty hardwood forest and even a reservoir. I would definitely recommend this hike, hiked in the direction we did it North & South Pattaconk Trails out and Cockaponset Trail back it felt like the elevation was pretty even, I felt like we did a lot of downhill hiking for a change instead of feeling like we were going uphill all day. That was a nice change of pace. 🙂
I heard the coolest sound ever at the reservoir! We were hiking along and all of sudden we hear the most otherworldly noise, like a spaceship was about to land! The best description of it I can give would be like someone wiggling a very flexible piece of metal, only it was very muffled. I stopped suddenly and I’m looking around trying to figure out what it was. Sidetrack smiled, the noise was familiar to him but was something he hadn’t heard in ages. He seemed surprised that I didn’t know what it was. He explained that it was a sound that ice makes when it cracks on warmer days on large bodies of water. Sidetrack often heard the noise as a kid when ice skating. Ah, that explains why I’ve never heard the sound, I was raised in the middle of suburbia, if we wanted to ice skate we went to the ice skating rink, not to a large body of water. 🙂 Anyway, we didn’t hear another long drawn out sound again like the first one but we kept hearing little blips of the noise for the rest of our walk along the reservoir, the blips kind of reminded me of the frogs down by our pond in the summer. It was very neat. If you get the opportunity to hang out by a large body of water on a day when ice is melting I recommend it just for the chance to hear that noise.
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