Saturday’s Flash Hike adventure took us to Savoy Mountain State Forest. We started out on the Busby Trail heading up the mountain to Spruce Hill and it’s glorious summit at 2,566 feet. The trail starts on Central Shaft Road, 1.5 miles each way, in and back. Along this trail we found a shelter cave and the Busby old Homestead. Before Busby, Sherman lived here. The house was built in 1831 by Kelly Sherman and his wife. Later that year the couple had their only child, a girl named Maria. In 1847, when Maria was sixteen years old, her mother went off to visit relatives, leaving her daughter and husband behind. When she returned a few weeks later, tragedy was waiting. Just what happened remains a mystery. Some say that Maria died naturally; some insist that her father murdered her. Whatever hap- pened, the legend persists that the ghost of Maria Sherman haunts the area around the old foundation and that on moonlit nights she can be seen gliding over the stone steps that rise from the cellar hole. The trail rises steeply for the last 800 feet up almost verticle stone stone steps. If climbing is not for you this trail intersects with the Lost Pond trail which is also the Mahican Mohawk Trail and completes a lower loop.

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