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 the red asterisk to the P at Reynolds Landing After the grim road walking in West Bridgewater last time finding this lovely riverside trail, the Haseotes Mass Wildlife Trail, feels like a miracle. The trail is on a sort of berm with the Town River on my left and marshes on the right. I immediately let Sulu off lead and he enjoyed sniffing and wandering down the trail. Looking at the map, the Town River has a braided path as it wends through the Hockomock Swamp. To the wilderness-schooled eye, the trail is actually kind of dumpy. It looks like it was badly overgrown and a crew came through with chainsaws.  There are stumpy ends everywhere...

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 the P in the middle to B, then to the red asterisk Today’s trip took a sort of T shape: I parked at the Hockomock Swamp Wildlife Management Area in West Bridgewater and walked back toward Route 138 in Easton where we last left off .  Then I went onward into West Bridgewater. Entrance to the conservation area. This gate is described as "orange" in the guide. Hockomock WMA is posted on leash only but I did let him off leash once we got to the power line. I continue to have some vague rationale that if a property is open to hunting, then off leash dogs should be allowed too. How is Sulu supposed to retrieve the pheasant on leash?...

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 . Happy New Year! December 15 turned out to be the last walk of the year not because of the press of the holidays (hello, pandemic!) but because we had a big snow storm on December 17-18. We got over a foot of snow in Somerville and I didn't know when we'd ever see the ground again. I started researching snowshoes. Then the temperature rose and the snow magically melted away. By New Year's Day there was not a patch of snow to be seen. Because I'm always a bit behind documenting my adventures on the trail, I thought I would do a 2020 recap now. I made 59 trips, a few of which Sulu was excluded from. I've covered about 123 m...

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 a little before G to J Google Maps routed me via Route 24 again to get to Wheaton Farm , so I guess last time was no fluke.   The day for my hike was sunny and cold. I did my homework this time, and found the parking lot and the trail easily. I am still trying to conserve phone battery by using paper maps.  Sulu and I are also still wearing orange even though shotgun season is over now it’s “ primitive firearms ” season.  The other dogs and walkers I saw had orange too.   I had good news early in the walk - the turnaround point from last time was much closer to the parking lot than I realized.  After leaving Whea...