These suggestions may be too far south of North Adams for arm. My favorite hike in the Shire is the Race Brook Falls (more scenic than Bash Bish IMHO) trail and Mt. Race. The best, most panoramic cliff top views on Mt. Race are south of the summit -- so if you can spot a 2nd car or don't mind a long road walk a loop down through Sages Ravine to the Paradise Lane and Undermountain Trails in Connecticut is nice. There is also an old road south of Bear Rock Falls down to Route 41 that would shorten the loop. Anybody know if special permission is required on that old road?
Another set of nice cascades is along the climb at the south end of the South Taconic Trail in New York. They are very seasonal and dry most of the summer. It is often an impressive wall of ice in the winter, but it may have melted now as it catches the warm afternoon sun.
Bash Bish, its alphabetic
Before I confuse or convince anybody it should be other, the only way I can remember that it's Bash Bish and not Bish Bash, is that Bash Bish is alphabetic. Like smish smash or splish splash, Bish Bash rolls off the tongue better. As in splish splash I was hiking to Bish Bash. I have noticed that Bay Staters are more polite, perhaps more prim and proper, more apt to stay within the lines of the trail (just kidding), than we more raucous, bushwhacking Yorkers. So its makes sense that the falls and stream would be properly named alphabetically. So .. do the residents of the Shire and other Bay Staters say splash splish?
