Connecticut Landscape
"Get of exit 7." Siri cheerfully chimed in the English accent I programmed her to speak because it sounded less annoying than the American accent. About twenty miles down the main state route she told me to turn right. I then went down a few miles and instead of retail stores and gas stations I was on a narrow two lane road with scattered small houses and farm fields. About four or five turns later with a few miles between each turn I was now going up a ever narrowing road with nothing but dense trees and brush on each side. A pickup truck came down going the opposite direction and I had to ride on the side of the road to let him pass. Siri told me to make another turn and now I going down a rough broken road that looked liked it was paved once fifty years ago and then people forgot about it. "Where the f**k are you taking me?" I muttered to my I-Phone's AI. I was then told to make another turn and this time I'm going down a totally unpaved road that is just dirt and rocks for a couple more miles uttering more profane curses to Siri but thankful I have an SUV that was built to take such things. I finally reach a large dirt parking lot with about twenty vehicles haphazardly parked all over the place. I park my Pathfinder and look across the parking area to see a perfectly paved nice two lane road connected to it where other arriving vehicles were coming down and cursed Siri one last time for taking me down the out of the way scenic route again. I put on my hiking shoes, grabbed my gear bag with a few bottles of water and proceed to hike a summit about less than two miles away. Compared to other hikes I've done recently it was not that strenuous and I reached the summit in about an hour and half at a relatively leisurely pace. The summit had only one point that wasn't obscured by trees. At the top there was a small plaque dedicated to some ten year old kid that died up there back in 1963. Sad story but in the end that was the kid's parent's fault. So I take a few shots which wasn't easy as the atmospheric and smog haze was really bad that day and I had to use every photo software trick in the book to extract a decent image from the horribly washed out image I started with.
Connecticut Landscape
"Get of exit 7." Siri cheerfully chimed in the English accent I programmed her to speak because it sounded less annoying than the American accent. About twenty miles down the main state route she told me to turn right. I then went down a few miles and instead of retail stores and gas stations I was on a narrow two lane road with scattered small houses and farm fields. About four or five turns later with a few miles between each turn I was now going up a ever narrowing road with nothing but dense trees and brush on each side. A pickup truck came down going the opposite direction and I had to ride on the side of the road to let him pass. Siri told me to make another turn and now I going down a rough broken road that looked liked it was paved once fifty years ago and then people forgot about it. "Where the f**k are you taking me?" I muttered to my I-Phone's AI. I was then told to make another turn and this time I'm going down a totally unpaved road that is just dirt and rocks for a couple more miles uttering more profane curses to Siri but thankful I have an SUV that was built to take such things. I finally reach a large dirt parking lot with about twenty vehicles haphazardly parked all over the place. I park my Pathfinder and look across the parking area to see a perfectly paved nice two lane road connected to it where other arriving vehicles were coming down and cursed Siri one last time for taking me down the out of the way scenic route again. I put on my hiking shoes, grabbed my gear bag with a few bottles of water and proceed to hike a summit about less than two miles away. Compared to other hikes I've done recently it was not that strenuous and I reached the summit in about an hour and half at a relatively leisurely pace. The summit had only one point that wasn't obscured by trees. At the top there was a small plaque dedicated to some ten year old kid that died up there back in 1963. Sad story but in the end that was the kid's parent's fault. So I take a few shots which wasn't easy as the atmospheric and smog haze was really bad that day and I had to use every photo software trick in the book to extract a decent image from the horribly washed out image I started with.