Laura, Vanessa and I wanted to take advantage of a reasonably warm and sunny day and headed out to explore the East side trails of the A Harlan Calef Isinglass Preserve that Laura and I explored the West side trails a couple weeks ago. There isn't a formal entrance on this side, a small sign on a tree and a chained old road. I imagine in non-Winter conditions there is ample road side parking, but today in the snow, we had to creatively park a little further down to make sure we were safely off the road. The trails on this side are well blazed and signed and contain a couple trails that meander down to the river. Starting on River Trail, we followed that to a fork. Keeping left, we did an out and back to the end, which is at the river. Back at the fork, The right branch is now Marsh Trail which follows alongside (you guessed it) a marsh We kept on Marsh Trail at the intersection with Ledge Trail. We'd do that on our return. At the end of Marsh Trail, we turned left onto Big Rock Trail and followed that, keeping left at the intersection with Big Rock Loop and followed to the end, again at the river and at the aptly named Big Rock.. which was snow covered and hard to distinguish as a rock, but we climbed up to get a nice view down the river. We did Big Rock Loop, including the out and back on Corner Trail, which just followed along the river and back to Big Rock Trail. Back onto Marsh Trail, but this time taking Ledge Trail, which climbed up a small incline to a lookout that is grown in over the river. Finishing Ledge Trail, we rejoined River Trail and back to the car. There was a couple of inches of snow on the ground today, but we were able to bare boot with no issues. All that came in just under 2 miles. A perfect way to spend an hour in the sunshine.
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