It has been a very long time since I've been on Greylock. Having grown up in Adams, the mountain is part of me, yet I haven't connected with it recently. Wuzzam and I decided to change that today.
We would park along Rockwell Road, at the CCC Dynamite Trailhead lot. This is directly across from Sperry Road, which has been closed to vehicles for a few years now. Route as follows:
- Sperry to the Hopper Trail, and drop down to Hopper Road, at roughly 1,000' elevation.
- Up Haley Farm Trail to Stony Ledge lookout at 2,560' elevation.
- Down the Stony Ledge Trail to the Roaring Brook Trail at roughly 1,200' elevation.
- Up Roaring Brook to the Deer Hill Trail, 2,250' elevation.
- Down Deer Hill to the Falls, and then climb back up to the Campground Trail, which is a real rollarcoaster down and up!
- Campground Trail out to Rockville Road, down the Road for a quarter mile, and down Greylock Road to the Stage Trail.
- Stage Trail to Jones Nose.
- Up Jones Nose to the CCC Dynamite, and the Dynamite back to the car.
Total of 13.2-miles, beautiful low 70-degree temperatures with no humidity and no bugs.
We held up really well on the long Haley Farm Climb, remembering most of it from the Greylock Marathon Runs. Roaring Brook was the toughest for both of us, it has turned steeper and longer than I had remembered. Deer Hill was as I recalled, difficult heading down and a chore climbing back up.
By the time we hit Jones Nose, even that climb stressed us. Neither of us have climbed like this in some time. It was beautiful, and encouraged us to make this trip much more often.
View northwest from Haley Farm Trailhead
Climbing Haley Farm, Wuzzam is in a green shirt in the middle of photo
Looking towards Williamstown from Haley Farm Trail, two-thirds up
Looking off Stony Ledge, with Prospect on the left, Fitch and Williams on right
Wuzzam on Stony Ledge, Greylock behind him
Another view off Stony Ledge, with a nicer focus on The Hopper
The bottom of Deer Hill Falls
Stream after the falls from the bridge
Wuzzam on the bridge
Jones Nose
Also, on this day in 2005...
Tippi and I ran the Savoy General Store Marathon. It was lengthy, over 29-miles I believe. From Haskins Road to the General Store, which brought us all the way over to Windsor Jambs, we had the company of "Max", a friendly dog we picked up at Loop & Haskins intersection.
Tippi along the trails of Savoy, 2005.
Oddly, each time we came to an intersection on the trail, "Max" knew which way we were planning on turning (even though he lead). He managed this for 9 - 10 miles.
Total for the day was roughly 29.30-miles in 6:17:52. It was my 27th completed marathon, and Tippi's 3rd. After finishing, I met Jane Phinney in the Savoy Town Offices; she was the Savoy Town Clerk and is the author of "Taking the High Road".
