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March 3 - March 9, 2005 Edition
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Snowy hikes to spectacular landscapes March 3, 2005 By Susan Safford This distinctive evergreen, stunted by the constant west wind, flanks the road into Squibnocket. Photo by Sarah Omer Hikers explored Long beach at low tide. Photos by Susan Safford The Closs property reaches to the North Shore at Cape Higgon. Suzan Bellencampi, education director for The Trustees of Reservations (TTOR), was busy last weekend, leading avid hikers on two trustee-sponsored walks in Chilmark. On Saturday, people gathered at the Squibnocket Beach parking area, then crowded into the TTOR bus to be driven through locked gates to the Squibnocket Limited Ownership property. The trustees have a conservation restriction on this 140-acre parcel, allowing for limited public access. It was a brisk, sunny afternoon, and the snowy trail, rife with wildlife tracks, was soon packed down as the walkers made their way west to the beach. Sunday’s walk was at a North Shore property formerly owned by Henry Closs. The trustees have a conservation restriction on 52 acres that extend to the shore at Cape Higgon, with a stunning vista across the sound to the Elizabeth Islands. The Vagelos family, current owners of the property, granted access over their unrestricted land to make this once-a-year walk possible. Vagelos caretaker Billy Dillon, along with his daughters, Lucia and Augusta, joined the hikers and kept them on the wooded, snow-covered trail TTOR, a Massachusetts organization, has been in the business of preserving properties for 114 years. The conservation restriction is one way to protect these noteworthy properties from development and still allow limited public access. Although the properties remain privately owned and can be sold, the restrictions will remain in effect.

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