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AT - Bull's Bridge to Ten Mile Hill |
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Saturday, 09 January 2010 00:00 |
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On January 9th Ben and I made an improptu day hike out to Ten Mile Hill. The weather was predicted to be cold, in the teens, but not much wind. The hike took us from the historic Bull's Bridge in Kent, CT. The bridge is a single lane, covered bridge that has been around since the 1840's. The bridge is still part of a public road and carries some traffic, at least as much as a single lane can carry.
From the snow we got at the end of 2009 and beginning 2010 all that remained was 3 or so inches. This made the hike pretty easy, no snowshoes required. The beginning of the trail was wide and seemed like it was an old railroad bed that wound along the Housatonic River. Before long it broke off into a smaller, more typical, AT trail. Shortly thereafter the trail crosses the Ten Mile River by way of a large steel bridge specifically for the trail. From the river the trail starts to gain elevation. After about two hours from our car we "summited" Ten Mile hill, which is exactly 2/3 of the way from Georgia on the AT. After a short rest we headed back which was significantly quicker than the way up. To kill some time we stopped at the Ten Mile Hill shelter. There we found 4 guys who trekked in a cast iron dutch oven, Coleman stove, and beers. They were cooking up some spicy sausage and swilling some brews. The sausage looked good but the beers seemed a little too cold, especially since it was going to be in the single digits that night. But hey they brought a saw and cut down wood to make a fire. Not that fires are allowed in CT...
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Last Updated on Friday, 22 January 2010 23:08 |
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Thursday, 31 December 2009 20:10 |
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My website is back up! After about two weeks of playing around with it I've put my site back online. If you care to know I upgraded from Joomla! 1.0 to 1.5 While this doesn't sound like much, the newer version is much different and took a little bit of work to install. Luckily Dreamhost, my host provider, made it pretty painless. The bulk of the work was picking a new theme for the site and tweaking it to fit my needs.
In the process of the upgrade I made a change to the way the URLs will appear. They are much more friendly now. You'll see that to get to all my posts, you'd just have to go to www.petewilk.com/posts. Much more intuitive than before. Unfortunately because of this upgrade a lot of the links I made in previous posts to my galleries wont work. I went through all my posts to update at least all the main links to the associated galleries. But I did not have time to go in a correct every link within the text. You'll just have to deal with it!
Let me know how you like the new site with the voting buttons on the right. And of course if you find something, aside from the gallery link problem above, feel free to contact me. Happy New Year! |
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Last Updated on Friday, 01 January 2010 01:12 |
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Website Updates Coming Soon |
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Sunday, 20 December 2009 19:41 |
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With the vacation time I have coming up I plan to be spending some time working on the website. I haven't really done anything to it other than post in 2-3 years. I've had complaints about the color scheme so that'll be one of the big things I'm going to look into. I'll also be changing the layout of the site as well. All the same content will be available just hopefully in a better form. There will also be some stuff in the background that I'm going to tweak, but that stuff shouldn't really be noticable. So in the mean time you may see some wacky stuff and perhaps the site might even go down. Keep coming back if it doesn't work. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 21 December 2009 21:07 |
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