Mt Greylock beauty

Stepping back again to October 16th & 23rd, 2011
When Molly and Brian were home we took a ride to Mt Greylock, which we hadn't done in years.  It took a visitor for us to remember what a gem we have just a few miles from our house...thanks Brian!
With the foliage declining rapidly we decided we best get up there again before they close the road for the season.  We went up 2 weeks in a row.  Little did we know that the next week we would end up getting that freak Halloween snowstorm.  Thank goodness we didn't wait!

The first week was very busy up there.  Apparently everyone had the same idea.  We did the usual tourist thing up at the top.

The foliage up top was pretty much gone but the colors down in the valley were still pretty nice.

We saw a lot of hikers...many who were older than us!  That kind of got us thinking...hike!  We drove down the Lanesboro way and saw so many trails.  We found out there's a way you can hike down to Stoney Ledge from that side going through the campground. 

So the next Sunday we decided to drive to the top again then down to the trail.  It's a nice walk down.

We saw a couple nice waterfalls.  I'm getting to like these more and more.  This one was really pretty and had great sound!  As you can see the water changed directions many times on it's way down.  I loved walking through the campground.  It's very primitive...only tent camping.  There are these big metal lockers...bear-proof.  Yikes!  Apparently you put all your food in there so the animals can't get it.  Not sure I'll be camping here anytime soon.

This is the view that you get from Stoney Ledge.  It's so awesome!  The day had been mostly cloudy but once we got there the sun started to peak through and by the time we left it was mostly sunny.  The beauty is amazing.

Even David was talking lots of pictures.

There's the back side (Williamstown side) of Greylock.  I just never get tired of looking at it.

This nice woman offered to take a picture of us.  If you look to the right of David's shoulder you can see a line...that's actually a BIG waterfall.  I've heard that it's pretty awesome in the spring when the snow is melting...but ...you have to hike UP to see it.  Not sure I'm quite ready for that yet!  Putting it on my bucket list.  We hiked back to our car waiting for us up the mountain tired but so happy to have taken the time to do this.

Two very great weekends enjoying the beauty of our magnificent mountain.  We are blessed to be able to see it from our house.