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This Sunday, friends and I plan to start the New Year the same way we’ve kicked off every Jan. 1 for more than half a century: with a joyous dash and frigid splash.
Four buddies carried out southeaste.
Mention that you plan to climb Bear Mountain, and someone might ask, “Which one?”
That’s because there are 144 summits with that name in 34 states, including two in Connecticut.
When friends and I set.
The trails that wind through lush forests and cranberry bogs at Litchfield’s White Memorial Foundation are as wide, flat and smooth as carriage roads – no tripping over roots and rocks, scrambling up .