4/10 at Middlesex Fells
As I mentioned in the previous post, this past Sunday Amanda and I took Behr and Ruggles to hike Middlesex Fells. We had planned to go out Sunday after Saturdays walk but hadn't chosen a location. Earlier in the day Sunday I had been driving by and noticed the waterfall at the Fells. Given the heavy rain that had happened recently I knew that it was likely at a high flow compared to summer and wanted to check it out before it tapered off.
So we headed out and parked on a side street off Washington St in Melrose, MA. We grabbed the dogs and walked right over to the waterfall called The Cascades and hung out for a bit. I took a bunch of photos and we just sat and enjoyed the sound of the water falling.
We saw a few trails that seem to head up into the park, we decided to take the unmarked trail that looked a bit like stairs heading up towards the top of the falls. Behr was always getting in front of us and had to run back to walk the same ways as us.
When we reached the top we found the stream that fed the waterfall and it was very small, hard to believe it split over the large rock and fell in so many different directions with any amount of force. We crossed a little bridge and continued our exploration. We found the trails rather quickly and decided to take the paths that always went up.
We let the dogs run ahead of us so they would pull us up the hills and rocks and they had some fun. We came to a rock with a beautiful view of the Medford, Melrose, Malden areas outside of Boston and stopped for a short rest to enjoy the view.
We then climbed a few more rock and circled back to the waterfall where we enjoyed a few more quiet moments and headed back home.
This is a quick guess of about where we hiked in the Fells.
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Sunday Hiking: Weston Reservoir
We managed to make it through week two of Sunday Hikes, sadly we will have to miss week three, I'm still trying to find a way to make up for it, so there might not be a hiking post next week.
For the second Sunday hike I went with my friend Rachel, my boyfriend, Alexis, and our dog Behr. Again, we didn't have much time as Rachel had midterms to study for, so we decided to stay local. We chose a parking lot that seemed easy to find and meet at about 117 Ash St. Weston, MA.
We gathered our things and Behr and headed out starting on the right side of the loop. The entire loop is fenced so you can't get to the water and contaminate it. There were lots of dogs and many were off leash so we let Behr run around and have some fun. Of course, since we had Behr, you will notice he stars in most of my photos.
Along the way we came across a spot I had used for a photoshoot in the past and took a few new photos before moving on. It will be interesting to compare how the area has changed from before.
About half way around we found another path off the reservoir that we will have to try next time and see what we find. We also found multiple streams that come out of the reservoir and some pretty trees.
Using My Map by Google Maps we walked about 2 miles in just over 1.5 hours. The actual walk highlighted here is no exact as the path isn't marked in Google maps.
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