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Colin, can you fill in the mileages for yours?
Distance: 0.5 miles
===Golf Course===
Go down to [[Weston Field]], go to the far end of the track, and keep going until you find yourself on the golf course. The golf course is a great place to run because it's all grass, so it's easy on your legs, and it's also quite pretty. Out of deference to the golfers and groundskeepers, run only on the rough (which looks like grass) and stay off of the green (which looks like astroturf). '''Warning''': Only attempt this run when the golf course is closed, because otherwise you will get kicked off. Good times to run are winter and evening. Note that this run is not flat; there are more hills than you would think. Distances vary based on how many loops you do.
Distance: 1+ miles
===River Path===
===Hopkins Forest Short===
Run along Rt. 7 north for about half a mile until you see Bulkley Street going uphill on your left. Go up Bulkley, and at the top, turn right. Under 100 meters later, you will see the entrance to [[Hopkins Forest ]] on your left. Go in the entrance, and then face your decision: either go straight up the steep way, or go right and go up the more gradual way. [[Diana Davis|This author]]'s preferred route is to go straight up the steep part, then come back down the gradual way. Whichever you choose, you will eventually get to a four-way intersection. Since you are doing Hopkins Forest Short, simply take the path back down. If you feel especially chipper, add on the 2.5-mile upper loop (see [[#Hopkins Forest Long|the longer run]] below).
Distance: 5.5 miles
Distance: 6.5 miles
===Hopkins Special===
Run down Rt. 7 N about half a mile, turn left and run up Bulkley Street, turn right, pass the entrance to Hopkins Forest on your left, and keep going over a small bridge. Just over the bridge, a trail takes off to the right. This is the Hopkins Special trail. [[Diana Davis|I]] don't know where it goes because I've only gone out and back on it, which was a nice run, but I've heard good things.
Distance: 7 miles (?)
===Blair-Luce===
===Hopkins Forest Long===
Run along Rt. 7 north for about half a mile until you see Bulkley Street going uphill on your left. Go up Bulkley, and at the top, turn right. Under 100 meters later, you will see the entrance to [[Hopkins Forest ]] on your left. Hopkins Forest paths are shaped like a figure-8, so you have 2x2=4 different ways to do your run. The first choice is to either go straight up the steep way, or go right and go up the more gradual way. Either way, you will eventually get to a four-way intersection. There, you can once again turn right or left to choose your desired orientation for the upper loop. [[Diana Davis|This author]]'s preferred route is to go straight up the steep part, then go around the upper loop counter-clockwise, and come back down the gradual side of the lower loop. Whichever way you choose, get to the bottom (or see alternative, below) and return to campus either by Bulkley or West Main.
Distance: 8 miles
Alternative: On the upper loop there is a trail going off to the right that will lead you to the [[#Taconic_Crest_Trail|taconic crest]]. This is steep uphill for a long time, and [[Diana Davis|I]] have never done it, but there are great views at the top.
Distance: 15 miles (?)
===RRR Brooks===
Pronounced "Triple-R Brooks," and named for a guy whose name was R.R.R. Brooks, in the sense that it was actually Robert Randolph Raymond Brooks or some such thing. Anyway, follow Rt. 7 south for about half a mile until you see Bee Hill Road, a dirt road going uphill on the right. Go up for perhaps a quarter of a mile, cross a small bridge, and then find a path going off to the right, labeled RRR. I don't know where it goes, but the men's [[[Cross Country Running|cross country team]] runs it often.
Distance: 8 miles (?)
===Mountain Meadow===
===Bee Hill - Stone Hill===
Follow Rt. 7 south for about half a mile until you see Bee Hill Road, a dirt road going uphill on the right. Go up, up, up Bee Hill (the hill is about a mile long, and quite steep). At the top of the hill, go straight across and down the trail on the other side (Old Bee Hill Rd: once a part of the Boston-Albany Turnpike, though upkeep on it by the town stopped in the 80's, and it has been returning to nature ever since). Take this for about a mile until you get to Berlin Mtn. Rd.; turn left (downhill) and follow Hemlock Brook down the mountain until you reach Oblong. Take a right here, go past the Novitiate Carmelite, and then a left onto Woodcock Rd. Follow this across Rt. 43, up Scott Hill Rd, and then a left onto Stone Hill Rd. at the top. At the top of the hill this turns into more of a trail than a road (although this is more of the previously mentioned Boston-Albany Turnpike). Follow the trail until you get to [[Stone Bench]]. Then either go straight or turn left; both ways take you down the hill with the cows to the [[Clark Art Museum|Clark]]. '''Remember to latch the gates behind you.''' Turn left out of the Clark driveway, which will take you to the traffic circle and back to campus.
Distance: ?
===Bee Hill - Oblong===
Distance: 11 miles (?)
Distance: 4 miles
===Taconic Crest Trail===
Take Rt. 7 S and then turn right a few miles later where Rt. 2 splits off to the right and goes uphill. Drive up the hill, and shortly past the Welcome to New York sign that tells you to quit talking on your cell phone, there is a parking area on the left. Park there. Now you have two choices.
The most popular is to cross the road (carefully!), climb up the steep part of the trail, and then run along the Taconic Crest. There are beautiful views, and after about a half hour of running you will see a small sign that points you to the [[Hikes#Snow_Hole|snow hole]], a cave with snow in it even in the summer. There is some trail on the right that will take you down to [[Hopkins Forest]], but [[Diana Davis|I]] have never done it so I don't know where it is. Then turn around and go back.
The second option is that from the parking area, go away from the road and find the trail. This trail leads similarly along the Taconic Crest, but there is no snow hole. Also, it can be quite muddy and steep.