Archive - August 2015

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Nature Conservancy’s Fire Trail
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Dawley Pond Shelter
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Purgatory chasm
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Few days with some stuff in between.

Dawley Pond Shelter

ArtDawley  Arthur Dawley, Leighs grandfather and Billy’s great-grandfather, was a man of the earth, an old potato farmer from Connecticut and a wonderful man. I mention him because the shelter I chose to take Leigh to for her first overnight  in a backpacking shelter (lean-to) was named Dawley Pond Shelter. The name is, to the best of my knowledge, a coincidence and not related but I still thought it would be nice to celebrate his memory at the same time.

 

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