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Re: SKY 2016
Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #921223 by Kit Kat 61
Mar 1, 2016 1:36pm
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I went there today :-). I might have optimistically planted ;-)

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Re: SKY 2016 Mianus River Park
Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #921229 by Bungalow Boxer
Mar 1, 2016 1:40pm
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OK guys! I hope I got the correct trail sign! There are actually TWO Treetops signs. I took a pic at the one just over the bridge at the Laurel Trail entrance. However, there is a second I believe I saw WAY up by the house, where there may be a second trail entrance (white trail?). If anyone has the GPS coordinates that the DEEP gave out for the locations and can confirm which Treetops sign is the correct one, I'd greatly appreciate it! I don't have a GPS..... or a working one anyway.....

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Re: SKY 2016
Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #921228 by Bungalow Boxer
Mar 1, 2016 1:47pm
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I was not only home by 3:30, I got THREE SKY challenges done today!

High five! I did Black Rock today. I've been there before, so there were only a few boxes in the park left to find. That's a good climb, but not that far, so I was done by lunch time. Instead of parking in the parking lot, which I remember as being potentially a little confusing, I parked on Bidwell Hill Road and took the blue trail (Mattatuck Trail) straight up to the overlook, picking up a few boxes along the way that were convenient from Bidwell. After getting back to my car, I then took the blue trail in the opposite direction for about a mile to Leatherman's Cave, which was WAY cool. Three boxes there. The blue trail was scenic but went up a lot of tricky rock, so on the way down I took a forest woods road straight back to my car, super easy. DEEP has a trail map online for Mattatuck State Forest that shows the trails, cave, and forest woods road. The weather was spectacular, and I think I passed 3 people the entire day.
Re: SKY 2016 Mianus River Park
Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #921230 by Bungalow Boxer
Mar 1, 2016 1:52pm
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If anyone has the GPS coordinates that the DEEP gave out for the locations and can confirm which Treetops sign is the correct one,

I used the DEEP GPS coordinates in the Google Map I did. You can zoom in, copy the coordinates, use the satellite imagery. Having said that, I'm sure they really don't care. As long as you take a picture at the beginning somewhere that is recognizable to prove what park you were at, and then one photo at the overlook, that's fine. They are simply trying to motivate people to go to their parks. Last year for Griswald, I didn't get the park before they closed for the season. I asked if they had any plans to open the tower back up for any special events, and they told me not to worry about it, just go take the photo anywhere and they would count it. And they did :)