Douglas State Forest Backpacking Trip
August 22 - 23, 2009
Douglas, MA
Six Scouts and three leaders participated in backpacking our sixth segment of the Midstate Trail, this one in Douglas State Forest. We camped near the trail's southern end. We then took a day hike to the Rhode Island border on the Midstate and hiked a bit further to the point where Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts meet.
Although we camped at a shelter (the only place camping is allowed in this forest), we pitched tents and left the shelter to a family who also backpacked to this location. The Scouts and kids from the family combined to play card games and a a night time game of "manhunt".
On the way back, we took a side trip on the Coffeehouse Loop to Wallum Lake, where Scouts swam and leaders played horse shoes.
There were lots of huckleberries on the trail, especially near Rohde Island - we ate lots of those. There were even a few blueberries. Right on the trail, we saw an interesting variety of mushrooms and lots of frogs and toads.
Here are some of the mushrooms:
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ASM Mitchell tracked our trail on his GPS. After the trip, ASM MacNeal used the download for this to generate a map of our path in TOPO.
Photos by: Joshua Froimson.
