A cancelled ingredient supplier audit in Montreal afforded me the opportunity to take an extra day on the drive from MA to Montreal. I decided to look at Mt. Frissel and Mt. Greylock as opportunities to hit the CT and MA State Highpoints along the way.

The CT State Highpoint is interesting in that you drive to Salisbury, CT, then up a 1 lane dirt road that had areas of active logging on it (luckily I avoided meeting one of the trucks on the road) and then on to the trailhead which is actually in MA. From there you hike up and over Round Mountain and then up to the Summit of Mt Frissell. Quite confusing, but the summit of Mt. Frissell is in MA so you then have to skirt around the southern “shoulder” to find the highest point in CT, which is marked by a pin and a pile of rocks!

It was a nice, short climb (about 3.2 miles round trip) and although the skies were threatening, no snow fell while I was there. It was a brisk 22 degrees according to the thermometer on the car.

I then headed the 37 miles north to Mt. Greylock, only to find that the summit road was closed due to hazardous road conditions. There are trails down lower that I could have taken that hook into the Appalachian Trail, but since it was around a 16 mile roundtrip and it was already 3:00pm, I decided that I will tackle that one at a later date, maybe with Joel in tow.

Mt Marcy (New York State Highpoint) or Mt Mansfield (Vermont State Highpoint) were other potential options for this trip but now look to be snow covered so they too will wait.