501. MA NET - Pelham: Froggie at the Falls

While the southern half of the M&M/NET in MA has remained essentially the same as I remember from backpacking through over 30 years ago, a few more northern parts of the trail have been undergoing some major changes. So, while we were off doing trail work again in Colorado in the late summer of 2016, Trailhead Tessie of CT kindly offered to transplant this froggie from its former waterfall home to a place further up the old M-M trail to get it near the junction with the new NET route. (Thanks, Trailhead Tessie!) Here are her updated clues from October 2016 as well as a map link she provided:

Cadwell Memorial Forest Park map: http://eco.umass.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Cadwell-Map.pdf

Park off Packardville Road at the entrance to the gated Tower Road. Walk up the Tower Road, and when it splits, stay left on a gravel road called Cemetery Drive. (Both park roads are closed to traffic). Look for white blazes to join the trail briefly at a stream crossing with a big culvert, and then follow the blazes left off of the road. Almost immediately there will be a large tree with a double blaze right turn. This is where the new NET splits off from the old M-M, which went down into a ravine on the left. From the double-blazed hemlock next to the fire ring, look across the trail to a triple oak. Go to it, then go a few steps further to a rock pilè, and check the left edge for a small cave behind a trap door.

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