Wapack Trail Celebration Story

[erugs]

Nice piece in the UL about the Wapack Trail and it's history. North Pack has long been my go-to hike when I need to stay local. I used to call it my "Mad Pack" because I would go there to get the colliewabbles (sp) out of my head.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130605/NEWHAMPSHIRE03/130609575

Just looked up the word for the correct spelling and found: bellyache

Origin of COLLYWOBBLES: perhaps by folk etymology from New Latin cholera morbus, literally, the disease cholera. First Known Use: circa 1823. Does anyone else use this phrase?

 

[RoySwkr]

However, in 1980, hikers Lee Baker, David Weir and Daniel Halsall, who all lived in the area, decided to revitalize the trail and created the Friends of the Wapack, "a group tasked with improving, maintaining and obtaining a permanent right of way for the trail through public and private lands.
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Though the Appalachian Mountain Club had been caring for parts of the trail for a time, that group's attention began to be focused elsewhere and someone new had to step in, he said, so Friends of the Wapack was born.

I went on several trail work hikes with Worcester AMC in the '70s on the Wapack and nearby Mid-State Trails, and it was WAMC trails chairman Gary Belliveau who laid out and built the present route up S Pack from the parking lot. The trail was better blazed in the '70s than it is now, not sure whether this is due to different standards or laziness.

 

[Tim Horn]

I had never thought of using Collywobbles in terms of getting the world out of my head while in the woods but it is pretty descriptive. This is a common term used by my family from Ohio and Minnesota. Never heard it in the South or in the East before ERUGS.

 

[erugs]

I had never thought of using Collywobbles in terms of getting the world out of my head while in the woods but it is pretty descriptive. This is a common term used by my family from Ohio and Minnesota. Never heard it in the South or in the East before ERUGS.

Tim - here's another phrase for you. Do you know what a Harrarra's nest is? (Not sure of the spelling) I've only had one other person hear of it before, but it was something my grandmother would say.