Today we hiked about two miles of the Taconic Crest Trail and the Taconic Skyline Trail in Pittsfield State Forest in Hancock, Massachusetts.

It was a pleasant short hike, though not particulary splendid. It was good for a pretty leisurely time, and for two who hadn't slept too well the night before. Unfortunately, the bugs were out, but not at their peak. The Skyline trail was basically an ORV trail, and there were many large puddles in the middle of the trail where it had been gouged out by the ORVs. This doesn't help support ORVs in my mind.

There were many little violet flowers whose name I must look up; also some white ones on bushes - I think they might have been dogwoods but I didn't go up to check.