Elijah Clark and hiking attempt

 That’s right, we made an attempt at hiking today.  A bit east of here is another state park on the Thurmond Resevoir and they have a 9 mile trail along the lakeshore.   So we go out to check it out and hike.  But we get out there and Carlene says we’re in the wrong place, back we go and with a mild struggle we find the parking place.  We also find the trail, but it’s not quite like the map shows.  A half hour later we decide it isn’t really here, it has been relocated or something.  Back to the place we had been.  Sign on the trailhead and on the trail itself says “park closed”,  so we ignore that and have lunch at the picnic table.  On to the next place. The West Park and beach is open and the lady tells us the whole trail is closed due to damage from hurricane Helene.  The bit of trail right there is functional and pseudo open.  You can hike it for a ways but she isn’t sure how far it’s not really officially open.  But this park has several nice beaches and our Elijah pass is good there too.  Dogs are not allowed on the marked beaches but they’re OK elsewhere, on leash.  We agree that we’ll find a place where she won’t bother anyone and won’t talk about the leash!  This lady has family in VT, one in St J, one in Winooski or Williston.

We go out and see people on all the beaches but we go to the end of the road at beach 6 and walk back along the shore.  There is a big rocky space between beach 3 & 4 so she got a good swim and lots of rock skipping.

We stopped at the visitor center on the way back to camp and got more general info on the area.

Little Brown Jugs