Took Tippi out to Ashfield to explore snowmobile trails on snowshoes.
Managed 5.5-miles in 1:28:00, wonderful area.
With such great snowshoeing conditions, I drove back out to Dubuque State Forest with Tippi to have an additional go at it.
I parked on Stetson Road, near and old abandon farm house. It was basically turned into a cul-de-sac, as that is as far as the road was plowed.
Tippi and I hit the drifts into the old apple orchard, passed Starks Cemetery, turned east up Horton Road, turned north onto the Old Fox Trail and rambled down to Hawley Road and Savoy Road with the Chickley River frozen below. Then it was the harsh hairpin turn southerly up along the R Willis Trail back to our junction with Horton in the clearing.
Ended the day with roughly 6.5-miles in 1:44:00. Exhausted!
Last snowshoe of the season, figured on exploring Florida Mountain from our property.
Tippi and I rambled into Vermont, totally no idea where the route was taking us.
Once into "civilization" again (a plowed dirt road), we stuck to it and then Tilda Hill Road later on for a total of 8.5-miles in 2:49:00 (1:49 snowshoe and another hour on dirt and Tilda Hill Road.