DIVISION IV 33

DINING ROOM—LONG TRAIL LODGE

GLEN ELLEN LODGE

lows down the old logging road on the east side of the brook, 4 miles to Griffith Shelter. This is an open shelter with bunks and a fireplace outside, and is located in a large deserted clearing where once was a prosperous lumbering village called Griffith, for its owner, a prominent lumberman of Danby. The remains of the mill, houses and charcoal kilns may still be seen. Do not confuse Griffith Shelter with Griffith Lake. Distance from Mad Tom (Notch) Shelter, 9 1/2 miles; from U. S. F. S. Shelter, 5 1/2 miles; time from Mad Tom, 9 to 10 hours; from U. S. F. S. Shelter, 5 hours (southbound, a little more).

Passing down through the clearing about a mile along the old highway, The Long Trail crosses Big Branch, and almost at once turns north up a side road, and soon, swinging to the left, enters an old highway which it follows west about 2 miles. Here it leaves the road and, crossing Black Branch, turns north 2 miles, most of the way beside a small brook, to the lovely Little Rock Pond, with its precipitous ledges on the opposite shore.

The Trail runs along the east shore of the Pond. The U. S. Forest Service has built Little Rock Pond Shelter, of logs, with an outside fireplace on a small island at the northwest end of the Pond. The island is reached by a foot-bridge from the mainland. A side trail has been built around the Pond on the west, leaving The Long Trail at the southeast corner and rejoining it at the northeast corner.

Distance from U. S. F. S. Shelter, 10 1/2 miles; from Griffith Shelter, 5 miles; time, from U. S. F. S. Shelter, 9 hours; from Griffith Shelter, 4 hours (southbound, about the same).

Here a side trail leads to the left down to South Wallingford, 3 miles, while The Long Trail leads to the right, northeasterly, 1 mile to the "Aldrich Job," now in ruins. Just beyond it crosses the

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