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Autumn colors are out and it's a perfect time to enjoy Vermont.

6 Oct - another bike ride on the Somerset (Forest Service) Road with the Green Mountain Club. This time we go off the road up a rutted path into the forest. After a ride and lunch with the group we decide to continue up the road to see the reservoir. It's a long uphill ride, but we finally meet the huge blue expanse of water at the top of the hill.
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8 October - our neighbors Lorna and Ham invite us to go kayaking at the Adams Reservoir in Woodford State Park. It's a magnificent cool, foggy day and kayaking in the mist makes a surreal experience.

13 Oct - Off with the Green Mountain Club again for a trip on a rainy day. We're on the Sarah Tenney trail to Shepard's Well trail to the RRR Brooks trail. With proper rain gear on and lively company it's a good experience.
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14 Oct - On a windy but blue day we walk the loop around Adam's Reservoir in Woodford State Park.
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19 Oct - It looks doable on the map, but turns into a real adventure. Up Harmon Hill is a scramble straight up a multitude of rock 'steps' to the top then boggy walking along the trail to Congdon Camp. Then another boggy walk down Stage Coach road (never really sure of where we are...) having to take shoes off and cross a freezing cold stream (we thought our feet were going to freeze and it's only October!), then onto Notch road through a trail that had fallen into a river (it was blocked off from the other side but we had no choice but to go through or go back miles and miles the other way - and it wasn't that bad) and finally back. About a 10 mile day with lots of questions along the way as to where are we???
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21 Oct - On another windy day we hike Bald Mountain again, but this time from the opposite starting point. It would be fun to go with someone and leave a car at each end so that we could hike from one side to the other. Luckily we are mostly on the lee side of the mountain where we are sheltered from the wind, but it's roaring wind at the top!
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26 Oct - A long but great hike through the beautiful Hopkins Forest, up the Birch Brook Trail and along the Taconic Crest trail. Boy did that sandwich taste good at the top of the crest trail! We did 2 states (Massachusetts, New York) in the 10 miles.
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28 Oct - Around Grafton Lake, NY with the Green Mountain Club on a drizzy day. But then to Stuart and Harda's house for hot tea, cookies and cake in front of the fire - yum!
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30 Oct - The BATS (Bennington Area Trail System)  trails are very close and easy. We did the purple to the blue and then tried to follow the Green Trail, but didn't have much luck. The photo is quintessential Vermont on the way out of the trail system.
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