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{{Outdated}}[[Category:Guides]][[Category:Activity]]
This is a guide to some nearby hikes, with notes on duration, difficulty, views, and other things that came to mind. Please contribute details to routes you know, and add any hikes not on the list already. Enjoy the [[Mountains]]!
== Bellows Pipe Trail ==
== The Dome ==
===Trail Description===
===Getting There===
To reach the trailhead, follow Route 7 North from campus over the Hoosic River. Turn at the second right onto Sand Springs Road. Take the first left. This is a weird intersection. Three roads branch off from it, all headed north of the road you're on, which officially becomes Bridges Road here. Anyway, you want the middle of the three branches. (Both the leftmost and the middle ones seem to be named Sand Springs Road.) When you come to a T intersection, turn left onto White Oaks Road, and follow this past Brook Road (on your left), across the Vermont border (there's a little marker and the road surface changes). Continue until you reach a parking area (probably beat up and littered) on the right just before you cross a stream. If you come to a sharp turn to the left, you've gone too far. The trail starts here and heads out to the right of the road, through a field, and onto a woods road.
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== Pine Cobble ==
From campus, follow South Street from the roundabout. At the Clark, turn in the driveway and head through under the foot bridge thing to the parking area behind the buildings. The trail starts at the far side of the field here, or you can blaze your own and hike up the hill anywhere.
== The Snow Hole ==
Snow Hole is a big rock crevice and small cave in the ground that has snow even in July, whereas snow in the surrounding area usually melts in May or much earlier. There are multiple approaches.
===Getting There (Petersburg Pass)===
From campus, follow Route 2 West. Parking is on the right at the crest of Route 2 at [[Petersburg Pass]]. The Taconic Trail north trailhead is directly across the road from the parking area.
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===Trail Description from Hopkins Forest===
===Getting There - RRR Brooks Approach===
The trailhead for the RRR Brooks Trail starts on Bee Hill Road. Follow Route 7 south from campus. Bee Hill Road is a dirt road which bears off Route 7 to the right, headed uphill. The trailhead is about a ways quarter mile up the road right after crossing a small bridge and has no parking, just a small sign. There is a small parking area about a half mile farther up the road at on the top of Sheep Hill right for the Fitch Trail (and others?)Running Pines trails.
== Mt. Berlin ==
== Mt. Greylock ==
Mt. Greylock is the tallest mountain in Massachusetts at 3491 ft. (1064 m) above sea level. Its peak boasts beautiful views which on exceedingly clear days can include the Taconic Range to the west, the Green Mountains to the north, Mt. Monadanock to the Northeast, and up to eighty miles of the beautiful rolling topography of Massachusetts to the east. It has been said that fifty years ago, before the atmosphere got as polluted over the Northeast as it is today, you could see the outline of the Boston skyline with binoculars on a clear day. Several towns surround Mt. Gretlock including North Adams, Williamstown, Adams, New Ashford, Lanesborough, and Cheshire, providing numerous approach possibilities. For more information on the various options and to find out how to get there, check out the Massachusetts DCR's [http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/mtGreylock/ page about Mt. Greylock].
==Other Resources==
[http://wsowoc.williams.edu/wiki/index.php/Williams_Outing_Club WOC] has good info on any of these hikes and you can likely find a group hike or PE trip that will take you there. They also publish a trail guide and map for the Northern Berkshires. Browse their [http://wsowoc.williams.edu/orgs/woc/ website], woc.williams.edu. Also, check out the [[Trail Mix]] series published in the [http://www.williamsrecord.com Williams Record] in 2003-2004.
