Sally, the girls, and I hiked Connecticut's Mount Frissell and Brace Mountain Trail yesterday. At 2491 feet, Mount Frissell is the highest point in the State of Connecticut. This was a
strenous hike. Parts were so steep that I felt like I was climbing up and down a rock-strewn ladder rather than hiking an actual path. Indeed, this was a
full body hike in the sense that you needed both arms and both legs at times, while carefully maintaining three points of contact.
The trail itself was 4.4 miles out and back, from the green and black starting dot below, up Round Mountain and Mount Frissell, down through the saddle, and then south to Brace Mountain. In all, we gained 1309 feet of elevation over the course of a fairly short hike. That's a lot!
Most of these pictures are from the summit of Brace Mountain. A group of wing gliders spent the day flying off the summit, and we got some cool pics. We also shot a bunch of pics off the lookout and down into New York's Harlem Valley.
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| Family selfie. Happy faces at the start! |
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| Near the summit of Round Mountain |
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| Approaching Mount Frissell's peak |
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| Tuckered at the summit of Brace Mountain |
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| Still tuckered... |
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| Obligatory selfie: overlooking New York's Harlem Valley |
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| Windsock for hang-gliding. |
The girls got lunch and a little rest, and of course, immediately started doing yoga on some of the rocks overlooking the valley.
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| Twinning in Dancer Pose. |
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| Taking flight |
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| Liftoff! |
Alas, these pictures don't really do justice to this hike. We took most of them at various overlooks, but much of the trail was either single-track goat path or rock-strewn cliff. The girls struggled at times getting up and down. But it was a good day, and certainly we got some decent pictures.
That's all, folks! Have a nice day.
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