I ventured out to Mount Greylock Reservation to explore a few additional trails on the east-side of the mountain (the Greylock Glen area, in Adams).

Paul and I had pieced together a true two-for-one event, combining the Hoxie-Thunderbolt 3.8 miles as a standalone snowshoe race, with an additional option of allowing for the continuation of the Covered Bridge loop of 8.7 miles for a total of 12.5-miles of snowshoe heaven on Greylock.  We had been out scouting and marking the course Thursday and Friday, February 19th & 20th, 2009.  The event was held on Saturday the 21st.

The Hoxie-Thunderbolt section is symbolized as the purple track, and the Covered Bridge section follows the red track.  This would be a pretty difficult trail run, but on snowshoes it was really something.

So that brings me to this old set of gps points I have in a file from February 2009.  Shortly after the event, we went back out to join the "Big Junction" of the Thunderbolt by taking the Greylock Mountain Bike Trail uphill.  This is symbolized in yellow on the map below, and my records indicate February 24th, 2009.  What a time that was.