{"id":1196,"date":"2012-07-22T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T15:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2015-08-16T11:54:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T16:54:02","slug":"my-favorite-rrr-brooks-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2012\/07\/22\/my-favorite-rrr-brooks-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite RRR Brooks Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I found the Sara Tenney loop to complete my favorite RRR Brooks Trail. The trail heads right off Bee Hill Road, just past a bridge, about a block above where it forks right off Routes 2\/7 South out of Williamstown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr21.jpg\">.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr20-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You follow a stream for a while:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr15-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr16-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in pretty good shape, though there are some trees down:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr17-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you head up into the pines:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr14-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally emerge into a meadow:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr13-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"221\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr12-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From where you can hear and barely see Route 2 to the left:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr11-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continuing on into the forest, you come onto a dirt road with Route 2 a block to the left and the RRR Brooks Trail you just took marked as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr08-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instead you go right and follow the trail out of the forest, into a pasture, and up a hill (stay left at two forks):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr06-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although poorly marked, this is the Sara Tenney trail, which descends into the pines to a signed intersection:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr05-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr02-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr03-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You continue towards Flora Glen to the bottom of the Sara Tenney Trail on RRR Brooks, close to where you started:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/07\/Rrr19-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The whole loop is about four miles and takes under two hours. I did it in an hour and a quarter, but I move pretty fast and don&#8217;t take water or rest stops.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I found the Sara Tenney loop to complete my favorite RRR Brooks Trail. The trail heads right off Bee Hill Road, just past a bridge, about a block above where it forks right off Routes 2\/7 South out of Williamstown. .\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}