AhbabaOooMaoMao

AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j26c4hy wrote

Reply to Places to Ice Skate Outdoors? (Wild/Natural) by emptydeath

Far from you, but the town green in Lebanon, CT, is a giant field, part of which the town floods each winter. It's only like six inches deep to begin with, so it stays pretty frozen. It's a big space and it's in the middle of a huge field, surrounded by old farm houses and pastures. If you don't find anything else. Could be an option.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j21upqa wrote

Reply to comment by Joggingmusic in Forgotten Cave by Joggingmusic

The articles addressed this some.

As I understand the area is unlikely to have any of the rock in which caves form as primary structures, such as by dissolution of bedrock minerals in waters, i.e., karst topography, or like lava tube caves. It is likely to have talus caves, which is consistent with those depressions in the hills that the locals call the Colebrook Dinosaur Tracks.

A talus cave is also consistent with the descriptions of smooth surfaces, boulders falling from the ceiling, and a lack of stalactites.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j211ng0 wrote

Reply to Forgotten Cave by Joggingmusic

I'm intrigued. One commenter on one of the links said they found it and it's exactly where it was said to be, but heavily obscured by growth and vines.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao OP t1_j1h2m4x wrote

Reply to comment by Rowsdower32 in Diana's Pool this morning. by AhbabaOooMaoMao

In the summer the river can slow to a trickle. It's also dotted with oxbows and old impoundments on the river, some side channels, and on tributaries. So there are plenty of places for stuff like leeches and sunfish, or worse, fallfish, to take up.

Be a lot cooler if we restored the natural water course and cleared some of the more swampy parts, as with any river. Less leeches. More trout.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao OP t1_j1h1td4 wrote

Reply to comment by chezenbred in Diana's Pool this morning. by AhbabaOooMaoMao

I never heard the story of Diana. Please share.

E: I couldn't wait.

The story is of the fair and heartbroken young Diana, who fell or jumped from the high cliffs to her untimely death. Is there a high streamside cliff or falls in CT or New England that doesn't share this mythos? Lover's Leap, Diana's Pool. In fact, looking it up, I see places called Lover's Leap all over the world. I'm intrigued anytime a mythos is shared across cultures, such as great floods or resurrection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lover%27s_Leap

Holy shit, it's everywhere.

And it's Ancient. Even Sappho is said to have leapt to her death over lost love in 570 BC.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao OP t1_j1g9ux8 wrote

Reply to comment by BryanCalens2ndFamily in Diana's Pool this morning. by AhbabaOooMaoMao

Natchaug River, Chaplin, CT. The Still River comes in from MA and becomes the Natchaug. This is the actual lower Diana's Pool, just upstream from the bridge. The real Diana's Pool is just further up and is quite a sight. Check on Google Maps and look at the photos. It looks like it might be such a great place to cliff jump but the torrent of Diana's Pool would certainly sweep you and bash you into the rocks or tangle you in submerged trees and branches. People swim there often. Not supposed to. People drown there often. The cliffs and rocks are impressive and struck me at first as out of place for CT. Not far downstream after is the confluence with the Willimantic River, where it becomes the Shetucket River, and eventually the Thames.

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