Backpacking - Great Hollow, New Fairfield, CT

The first weekend in December, the boys backpacked into New Fairfield’s own Great Hollow YMCA Wilderness School site. After a two mile backpack in from an adjacent NY park, the boys setup camp and spent the afternoon enjoying the lovely campsite overlooking waterfalls and playing some games in the woods. The challenge on this trip was keeping warm in conditions where the temperature dropped into the teens at night. The boys managed the cold very well and learned valuable lessons in packing appropriately for sub-freezing conditions.