East Clarendon to Buffum Pond

Clarendon

Clarendon Camp (G.M.C.)

Clarendon Gorge

145 ft Shrewsbury Pa or Springs

Rough

Cuttingsville

Spring Water

Bear Mt 2262

Button Hill 2040

Buffum Camp (G.M.C.)

Elfin Lake

Wallingford

Good Roaring Br

Gulf Rd

E. Wallingford

To Boston

Rough

Bulley Farm

White Rocks Mt 2062

Wallingford Pd (Spectacle Pd) 2157

S. Wallingford

Aldrich Job

Rough

2

3

Little Rock Pd

Green Mt 2581

THE LONG TRAIL

Scale in miles

LONG TRAIL

Side Trails

Secondary Rds

Meals + Lodging

Camps or Lodges

Kiln

Black Branch

Big Branch

Griffith Camp (G.M.C.)

Roaring Br

To Weston

Danby

Rutland R.R. to Troy, Albany and New York

5

6

Closed Camp

Old Closed Camp

Long Hole

(Buffum Pd)

H.

For side trails see page 79

Division H

BUFFUM POND TO STRATTON MOUNTAIN

Skirting the east bank of Buffum Pond (Lake Griffith) for a short distance, The Long Trail turns east and crosses Roaring Branch by a log bridge, then climbs through clearings, fast growing up, to the summit of Peru Peak, then down through the saddle and up to the top of Styles Peak, where an observatory tree gives fine views. Note that here the government maps are more or less confusing. Trail drops steeply here to a deserted highway from East Dorset to Peru, where the G. M. C. Mad Tom Camp is located, an open-front camp with stove and bunks for 24 people. Good water is to be had a little way to the east.

The Trail passes along the ridge over Bromley Mountain, covered with heavy virgin forest. "Marsh" Hapgood gave the summit to the State with the stipulation that the trees should never be cut, so that one piece of natural timberland might be available to the nature lover. Peru, the home of Mr. Hapgood (now deceased), and his excellent Bromley Inn are near this mountain. While Bromley is forest-covered, there are a number of lovely vistas to be had from it.

After a steep scramble down through young woods, the Trail emerges at the top edge of a large and very steep mountain pasture and skirts its top edge west for about one-eighth mile. The views to south, east and west are very fine; Stratton Mt. shows as the highest to the south, the Taconic Range behind Manchester to the west, and the fine hills behind Londonderry to the east. This view has been described by Mr. Hapgood as "the grandest view on

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