Rescheduled! Annual Moonlight Snowshoe or hike

At Stonehouse Pond

Rescheduled! The Barrington Conservation Commission and Trails Committee invite you to come for its Annual Moonlight Snowshoe or hike on Saturday, March 4th at 7 PM. The hike will be held at a new location this year, the Merry Hill Road entrance to SELT’s Stonehouse Forest (about 0.7 miles from the intersection with France Rd. and Young Rd.)
 

Stonehouse Forest
Friday, 3 Feb, 7-9pm
~154 Merry Hill Rd (SELT Lot) 

Most of the hike will be on a wide woods road, but we’ll also venture into the woods, so we’ll experience both bright moonlight and the somewhat ‘spookier’ feeling of being in the woods at night.  

The walking will be easy, with only mild uphills, about two miles in length. Of course, extra care is always needed when walking a) in the winter and b) at night.  Let’s hope that there will be sufficient snow for it to be a snowshoe trek (it’s been too long since it was a snowshoe!) but we'll just walk if conditions dictate.  Should it be a walk, there could be a good deal of ice, so footwear with extra traction (yaktrax, microspikes, etc.) is a good idea. Dress warmly enough for the conditions, and though we shouldn't need them for the walk, bring a flashlight or headlamp. Please leave your canine companions at home.

If we get rained or snowed or even just ‘clouded’ out, we’ll try again March 4. Otherwise, there won’t be another chance for a public moonlit hike this winter.