Bay Circuit Diary

Welcome to Susan's Bay Circuit Diary! This blog follows my adventures with my dog Sulu hiking the Bay Circuit Trail .  To get new posts in your inbox, please subscribe (see the little "subscribe" oval above). The rest of the past posts can be found using the little menu on the left.  If you are curious how this all started, go here . From K to the asterisk on the border of Borderland We’re back in Sharon two days in a row. I cut my walk a little short yesterday to give me time to bake a pie (it *is* Thanksgiving week, the pie was cherry). Today we parked at the same park as yesterday,  Deborah  Sampson Park , but are headed southbound. There is a parcourse trail like the one in Bedford which keeps us off the road, which I appreciate. Good job Scout kid, but did you have no access to graphics at all? Sharon has a big beautiful lake in town, Lake Massapaug , which is open for swimming in season and has a walking path as well.  It appears to have strict dog rule...

Welcome to Susan's Bay Circuit Diary! This blog follows my adventures with my dog Sulu hiking the Bay Circuit Trail .  To get new posts in your inbox, please subscribe (see the little "subscribe" oval above). The rest of the past posts can be found using the little menu on the left.  If you are curious how this all started, go here . From K to the crude arrow above the "y" and back again We parked at our destination: Deborah Sampson Park , a recreational park in Sharon. I believe the park is named after the Revolutionary War hero , who settled in Sharon after the war.  We normally would have been at agility class today but we have been banned from New Hampshire. I just say that because it sounds dramatic, but the Governor has required a COVID test within 72 hours of returning to Massachusetts from New Hampshire due to an increase in cases there.   It took me a little while to find this blaze It can be difficult to find the trail in wide open spaces li...

Welcome to Susan's Bay Circuit Diary! This blog follows my adventures with my dog Sulu hiking the Bay Circuit Trail .  To get new posts in your inbox, please subscribe (see the little "subscribe" oval above). The rest of the past posts can be found using the little menu on the left.  If you are curious how this all started, go here . From F to G Today’s walk started with a car wash.  The map showed no legal parking for miles, so I paid for a platinum car wash at Rojo Car Wash (triple foam! vision clear!) and got the attendant’s permission to park it in the vacuum area (free with wash!).  Triple foam! Pine Street was narrow and a bit stressful to walk on.  We crossed a mysterious body of water (turns out to flow from School Meadow Brook, another tributary of the Neponset River). It might be a former cranberry bog because as I walk I see some other vestiges of cranberry cultivation (Internet says yes, there are cranberry bogs in Sharon ). No sidewalks here, alas....

Welcome to Susan's Bay Circuit Diary! This blog follows my adventures with my dog Sulu hiking the Bay Circuit Trail .  To get new posts in your inbox, please subscribe (see the little "subscribe" oval above). The rest of the past posts can be found using the little menu on the left.  If you are curious how this all started, go here . From E to F, basically After almost three weeks since Sulu and I were last in Walpole, we were back on the BCT. We were fortunate to have a sunny day for our walk. We parked at a Town Forest lot and found the BCT pretty easily. Walpole has earned high marks from me for abundant accessible open space and a strong commitment to sidewalks. It's surprising how rare that is. My plan was to backtrack to the high school where we left off, return on the same trail to the car, and continue south.  The forest road provided a beautiful path, but shame about the leash law (it’s well signed, so I can’t pretend ignorance either). Furthermore, the ...

Welcome to Susan's Bay Circuit Diary! This blog follows my adventures with my dog Sulu hiking the Bay Circuit Trail .  To get new posts in your inbox, please subscribe (see the little "subscribe" oval above). The rest of the past posts can be found using the little menu on the left.  If you are curious how this all started, go here . From D to E I was not paying attention, but the last post was my fiftieth post! I am not sure what that speaks to other than perseverance and the sad fact that the pandemic is still with us.  Even at my slow pace I can expect to complete the BCT before “the end” of the pandemic. And this week, I learned about something that was right in front of me: the interactive map on the BCT website.  Although I often refer to the maps by number (for example Walpole is on Map 10 ) and the directions that correspond to each map, there is also the interactive map.  I have poked at it a couple of times but just thought it was gimmicky.  Ba...