ABOUT THE PARK:
Veteran's Park Trails - Hike Roxbury
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 40.87726, -74.67779
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| Conkling Road Parking |
TRAIL MAP:
Veteran's Park Map - Hike Roxbury
HIKE DISTANCE: 4.8 miles
THE HIKE:
Rocky has advanced straight into the accelerated hiking program. He did 4.8 slightly more rugged miles today with ease. I just hope he does not think we will be hiking every day. I do have to go to work to support our hiking habit.
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| His least favorite thing: Waking up at 5:30 AM and on the road by 6:00 AM. He is not a morning dog. |
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| From the parking lot ... |
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| ... his first sight of deer. He was interested, but just looked. |
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| Heading off on the blue trail. |
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| About 1/3 of a mile in, left on the red trail. |
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| Not quite sure what the structure up ahead is supposed to be ... |
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| ... other than a party place :( |
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| At the end of red ... |
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| ... left on yellow. |
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| Could it be? |
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| Yes, it is Rocky's first balloon, #38 for the year. |
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| At a little bit of an overlook ... |
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| ... a nice picnic table for a break. |
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| Then continuing on y ellow. |
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| Yellow ends at Patricia Drive where right goes to the blue trail but first ... |
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| ... left a short distance to the green trail. |
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| Green trail on the left. |
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| What is that to the left? |
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| Balloons #39, #40, #41 and #42 |
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| There is a short side trail off of green to a picnic table but oh my, the garbage! It was too nasty to stop here for a break. |
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| I picked up the plastic bags since they looked clean, put the balloons in one and filled the other one up with plastic bottles even though it did not make a dent in the litter that was there. |
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| Green the loops around and heads back. |
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| At the end of green, right on Patricia drive passing the yellow trail on the right all the way to ... |
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| ... the far corner of the parking lot where the blue trail starts. |
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| Look at Rocky like he knows where he is going! He really did lead the way a lot today where he mostly followed yesterday. |
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| At a woods road, blue turns left on the woods road where yellow starts across the woods road. |
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| This is how nice he walks after just a few corrections for pulling. He needs a reminder every so often but for the most part he is easy on the leash. |
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| Blue goes all the way back to the car. |
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| Heading home. |
