The DC Women's Hiking Group will be hiking at Saugatuck Falls in Redding, CT this Tues., Nov. 29th and Thurs., Dec. 1st.
The address is 65 Diamond Hill Road. Between mailbox 65 and 73 follow to parking on the left side. Meet at 9:30am.

Women Hiking Group - Nov 15 & 17

The DC Women's Hiking Group will hike at Bennett's Pond on Tues., Nov. 15th and Thurs., Nov. 17th.
Take Route 7 north to Bennett's Farm Road on the left.
The park entrance and parking area will be on the right.
Meet at 9:30am.

The DC Women's Hiking Group will be hiking Tues., Nov. 8th and Thurs., Nov. 10th at Hemlock Hills.
Please meet at Lake Windwing at 9:30am.
Take Bennetts Farm Road to South Shore Drive.
Turn left into the ballfield and Lake Windwing parking area.

The DC Women's Hiking Group will hike on Tues., Oct. 25th at Pine Mountain.
Take Pine Mountain Rd. to near end.
Parking area on right side of Rd.
Meet at 9:30am.
The Group will not be hiking on Thurs., Oct. 27th.

CT's Cougar - A Real Wanderer

The cougar killed on the Wilbur Cross Highway in June turned out to be on a long journey. After extensive research, CT DEEP has just published its report in the Connecticut Wildlife Magazine (September/October 2011 issue). Our cougar started its adventure in South Dakota, traveled to Wisconsin, probably continued though southern Ontario and into upper New York State before its untimely demise in Milford – approximately 1,200 miles. This was determined through DNA samples of scat and hair taken by authorities in SD, WI, and NY. It was a young male, 2 – 5 years old who was probably looking for love. Young males are known to disperse fairly long distances looking for a mate and will continue to move along until they find one. But as far as wildlife experts are concerned, our cougar wins first prize. Second prize goes to another South Dakota male that traveled 640 miles to Oklahoma. Young cougar females don’t disperse as far as their brothers. They tend to wander only 12 – 40 miles away from their mother’s territory. Because of this, wildlife experts don’t think New England will see the development of its own cougar population. For a young female to disperse this far and begin reproducing is less probable. But, nature always provides us with wonderful surprises.

Women's Hiking - Oct 18th & 20th

The DC Women's Hiking Group will hike Tues.,Oct. 18th and Thurs.Oct.20th at Tarrywile Park in Danbury.
Take 84 to the Airport Exit.
Take a right at the light at end of ramp.
Follow road to stop sign and make sharp right turn onto Southern Blvd.
Stay on Southern Blvd. There will be signs for Tarrywile Park.
Follow signs and make a right to Tarrywile.
Immaculate H.S. will be on the left and the parking lot for Tarrywile will be on the right side.
Meet at 9:30am.

Women's Hiking Group - Oct 13th only

The DC Women's Group will hike Thursday, Oct. 13th at Weir Farm.
No school on Tues. the 11th.
Please meet at Ancona's on Branchville Road at 9:25am and then carpool to Weir Farm because of limited parking on site.